Step into the role of a Principal Architect at JPMorgan Chase and become a driving force behind the development and adoption of cloud-based technologies.
Principal Architect to define the architectural direction for major cross-firm programs at JPMorgan Chase. You will own two or three multi-year architecture programs and set the target state architecture, standards, and paved paths that our organizations rely on and that make adoption the easiest choice.
You will remain hands-on, focus on our hardest technology problems between line of businesses that need guidance on how to deliver solutions.
Job Responsibilities
Align architectural target states, standards, and paved paths with multi-year business strategies, operational constraints, and ongoing technology initiatives.
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- Define and own architectural direction for major cross-firm programs spanning multiple organizations.
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- Drive firm level architectural initiatives such as resilience, simplification, inventory, entitlements, or agentic development.
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- Author reference patterns and influential narratives focused on emerging and existing technology challenges that enjoy broad adoption across the firm.
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- Chair or sponsor major Architecture Working Groups and standards forums and set the bar for effective governance that helps drive firmwide change.
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- Mediate between organizations to converge on shared architectural target states and paved paths when localized approaches diverge.
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- Stay hands-on and focus on our hardest technology problems including reviewing design and code in detail as needed.
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- Influence the decisions of Executive Directors and Market Directors level leaders across functions and activate their organizations to adopt and champion our architectural direction.
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- Make the case for major technological investments based on our architectural recommendations and clearly articulate tradeoffs (e.g., costs, risks, timelines).
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- Mentor Principal track architects. Establish team and organization level learning mechanisms such as postmortems, playbooks, or reviews.
- Leverages enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis and decisioning across the product family, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.
- Establishes reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across SDLC/toolchain practices, ensuring traceability/auditability, resiliency, and security controls.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills
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- Obtain 10 plus years in architecture or engineering, and experience delivering architecture outcomes for enterprise-scale problems.
- Deep expertise across three or four technology domains with recognized mastery in in least one or two of these domains. Knowledge in one or more software, applications, and architecture
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- Experience leading or sponsoring large-scale architecture transformation programs that span multiple organizations.
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- Strong visual and written communication. We expect you to write strategic narratives, investment cases, and reference patterns.
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- Demonstrable record leading cross-organizational initiatives without direct authority and of influencing senior leaders. Ability to work with minimal oversight, occasional checkpoints with leadership, and ownership of results across multi-year horizons.
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- Working knowledge of financial services, our regulatory expectations, how these shape architectural decisions.
- Demonstrated experience applying enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment in architecture and engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
- 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.)
- Ability to present and effectively communicate to Senior Leaders and Executives
- Ability to evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into enterprise-grade architectures while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements.
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills
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- Demonstrated record of delivering firm-wide architectural platforms or programs that other organizations actually use.
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- Experience setting hiring, leveling, or development standards for senior technical talent.
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- Industry visibility: published patterns, internal white papers, conference talks, or contributions to standards bodies.
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