Principal Architect

Step into the role of a Principal Architect at JPMorganChase and become a driving force behind the development and adoption of cutting-edge, cloud-based technologies.

As a Principal Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Infrastructure & Production Management Line of Business within Consumer and Community Banking, you will serve as a strategic technical advisor aligned with Infrastructure and Production Management’s Product Portfolios. This role will support the overall expectation that infrastructure and application architectures meet the firm's reliability, availability, scalability, and operational standards. Additionally, you are expected to provide architecture expertise to enhance and develop platforms based on modern cloud-based technologies and/or leverage the power of Artificial Intelligence, while supporting the adoption of strategic global solutions.

Job responsibilities

• Advises cross-functional teams on technology selection to achieve target state architecture and decisions on improvements to current technologies
• Facilitates coordination across architects, manages reusable artifacts, drives consistent execution practices, and ensures measurable impact.
• Responsible for representing the Enablement Architecture team in upstream strategy, standards, and governance forums. Ensures two-way flow of practical insight and enterprise direction
• Collaborate in short-lived, outcome-driven architecture working groups on topics like reliability, scaling patterns, AI integration, and cross-cutting concerns.
• Develops multi-year roadmaps aligned with business and architecture strategy and priorities
• Creates complex and scalable coding frameworks using appropriate software design
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Serves as the function’s go-to subject matter expert
• Contributes to the development of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies
• Creates durable, reusable software frameworks that improves velocity and quality of output across teams and functions
• Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience in infrastructure architecture, platform engineering, or SRE
• Advanced knowledge of software architecture, application development, and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Advanced understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native patterns, and service reliability
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and incident response
• Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex architecture problems in one or more technical disciplines
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Expertise in one or more programming language(s)

• Ability to work horizontally across business units and technical teams
• Effective communication, facilitation, and documentation skills