Principal Architect - Infra Platforms - IAM & Controls - Executive Director

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services leader seeks a Principal Architect to enhance and develop cutting-edge infrastructure platforms. This role involves collaborating on strategic solutions and ensuring secure and scalable technologies. Successful candidates will have proven experience in security architecture and IAM, alongside strong communication skills with senior leaders. This opportunity offers a dynamic environment for professionals eager to influence architectural practices and drive innovation.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in infrastructure, security or enterprise architecture.
• Experience in IAM and/or Controls architecture solutions.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design and application development.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering teams to deliver control solutions.
• Lead adoption of architecture practices to reduce control issues.
• Advise on technology selection for architecture improvements.

Skills

Infrastructure security and enterprise architecture

IAM technologies and protocols

System design and application development

Communication with Senior Leaders

Technical influence in engineering

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Policy as Code tools (OPA, Rego)

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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, infrastructure platforms.

As a Principal Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Infrastructure Platforms Architecture group, you will utilize your expertise to enhance and develop platforms using the latest technologies, while also supporting the adoption of strategic global solutions. You will leverage your advanced experience in security and controls architecture to collaborate with colleagues across the organization, ensuring the delivery of platforms that are secure, scalable, and resilient by design.

Job responsibilities

• Partners with engineering teams to deliver control related solutions aligned with product and architecture strategy and priorities
• Partners with Global Technology teams responsible for Identity & Access Management (IAM) services and with Cyber Technology & Controls organizations.
• Leads adoption of shift‑left strategies by embedding IAM and control alignment into platforms, services and deployment technologies.
• Drives adoption of architecture practices to reduce the number of control issues discovered in the organization.
• Advises cross‑functional teams on technology selection to achieve target state architecture and decisions on improvements to current technologies
• Designs and oversees the delivery of critical frameworks that deliver policy as code, integrated into IP Platforms
• Serves as IP's go‑to subject matter expert on questions of IAM and Controls automation
• Contributes to the development of control related capabilities in line with IP's product, service and platform delivery model
• Creates durable, reusable software frameworks that improves velocity and quality of output across teams and functions

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience.
• Proven experience in infrastructure, security or enterprise architecture, ideally working for a global, complex, enterprise organization.
• Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex architecture problems in the disciplines of IAM and/or Controls.
• Specifically, experience of authentication, authorization, privileged access, secrets management and identity governance.
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Deep knowledge in application and infrastructure architecture
• 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 influence large engineering organizations through their technical credibility, vision and energy,

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Hands on experience with IAM technologies and protocols (OAuth, OIDC, etc), cloud native IAM (AWS, Azure, GCP), federated identity solutions, etc.
• Hands on experience with Policy as Code (OPA, Rego, Hashi Sentinel, etc)
• Familiarity with security standards (SOX, FFIEC, NIST, PCI DSS, etc)
• Familiarity with zero trust principles.
• Practical cloud native experience

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first‑class business in a first‑class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long‑term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

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.

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.