Principal Architect, Executive Director: Solution Architecture

Job Description

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 JPMorganChase within the Enterprise Technology team, you are an integral part of a team that works to develop and assist the development of high-quality architecture strategy and solutions for various software applications and platform products. You drive significant business impact and help shape the target state architecture through your capabilities across multiple architecture domains. 

 

You will serve as a strategic technology leader, defining and governing end-to-end solution architectures for critical platforms and transformation programs. You will partner closely with CTOs, Chief Architects, and senior engineering leaders to deliver business and technology strategy. Your role blends deep architectural expertise with executive presence, enabling you to influence both business and technology senior stakeholders and provide hands-on guidance to engineering teams as needed. You will help accelerate delivery, embed security and resiliency, and foster a high-performing architecture community. 

Job responsibilities

• Translates business strategy into pragmatic solution roadmaps and reference architectures
• Drives architecture decisions balancing resilience, scalability, latency, cost, risk, and time-to-market. 
• Sets and enforces design principles, patterns, and guardrails across portfolios
• Establishes reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across SDLC/toolchain practices, ensuring traceability/auditability, resiliency, and security controls.
• Chairs or contributes to Architecture Review Boards, ensuring compliance with enterprise standards and regulatory obligations
• Builds trusted advisor relationships with CTOs, Chief Architects, and senior leaders to co-create technology strategy and execution plans
• Facilitates outcome-focused dialogue between business, product, and technology leaders to align trade-offs and secure buy-in
• Applies enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis, roadmap development, and design decisioning, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.
• Provides hands-on oversight and coaching to domain architects and engineering leads, intervening in complex design issues as needed
• Owns target and transitional architectures for complex, multi-region systems across customer, risk, finance, data, and payments domains
• Mentor and develop high-performing architects, fostering a community of practice and promoting reusability through reference implementations

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience
• Proven track record leading architecture for large, distributed, mission-critical systems with 24x7 operations and high resiliency targets
• Deep expertise in architecture patterns: microservices, event-driven and streaming architectures, API-led connectivity, data mesh/lakehouse, CQRS, and domain-driven design
• Experience with hyperscale cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), container orchestration (Kubernetes), service mesh, CI/CD, IaC, observability, and platform engineering
• Security and resiliency expertise: zero trust, secrets management, identity, encryption, chaos engineering, disaster recovery, and site reliability practices
• Integration and legacy modernization: messaging, APIs, eventing, SOA-to-microservices transitions, mainframe integration, and strangler-fig approaches
• Executive presence with ability to simplify complexity and influence outcomes across senior stakeholders in both the business and technology
• Strong vendor management and build/buy/partner decisioning; experience shaping multi-year investment portfolios
• 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.
• Ability to evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into scalable platforms while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements.

 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS/Azure/GCP Architect, TOGAF, CISSP, SAFe)
• Experience in global financial services and regulated environments
• Hands-on pragmatism; able to review designs and code-level artifacts while maintaining a strategic lens
• Experience with platform engineering, green software, and confidential computing
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills across C-suite and engineering teams
• Strong knowledge of real-time streaming (Kafka/Pulsar), batch analytics, MLOps, model governance, and responsible AI patterns
• Familiarity with compliance regimes (e.g., EBA, PRA, OCC, MAS) and architecture support for regulatory requirements

 

 

About Us

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process. 

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our  FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

About the Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.