Principal Architect, Solutions Architect - Client Solutions

Fairygodboss; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Principal Architect to lead cloud-based technology development and adoption within Infrastructure Platforms, Client Solutions. You will drive architecture platforms, collaborate across teams, and support strategic global solutions adoption.

As a trusted advisor, you will influence decision-making, define multi-year roadmaps, and ensure architecture patterns through a security-conscious, resilient delivery approach across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on architecture concepts.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design and operations.
• Expertise in one or more programming languages.
• Deep knowledge of software architecture and related processes.
• Experience applying AI capabilities in architecture workflows.

Responsibilities

• Advise cross-functional teams on technology choices to reach target state.
• Apply enterprise AI capabilities to architecture analysis and roadmap development.
• Contribute to multi-year roadmaps aligned with strategy and priorities.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and develop technical methods.
• Establish AI-enabled patterns and governance across SDLC practices.
• Act as a trusted advisor to lines of business, guiding IP product choices.
• Translate client strategies into actionable infrastructure requirements.
• Provide broad consultative architecture across IP and security changes.

Skills

Architecture concepts

Programming languages

Cloud knowledge

AI capabilities

Enterprise architecture

Executive communication

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, Solutions Architect - Client Solutions at JPMorganChase within the Infrastructure Platforms, Client Solutions team, you provide expertise to enhance and develop architecture platforms based on modern cloud-based technologies, as well as support the adoption of strategic global solutions. Leverage your advanced architecture capabilities and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes.

The Infrastructure Platforms Client Solutions (IPCS) team acts as the client-facing connection between Infrastructure Platforms and the Lines of Business and Enterprise Technology teams it serves. IPCS provides a single coordination point for complex, cross-domain needs translating client strategy into actionable infrastructure requirements, connecting clients with the right IP product and engineering teams, and aligning priorities, ownership and delivery. The team also helps clients adopt new platform capabilities and manage migrations, decommissioning and security-driven changes, reducing execution risk and ensuring infrastructure outcomes deliver clear business value.

Job Responsibilities

• Advises cross-functional teams on technology selection to achieve target state architecture and decisions on improvements to current technologies
• 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.
• Contributes to multi-year roadmaps aligned with business and architecture strategy and priorities
• Serves as the function's go-to subject matter expert and contributes to the development of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies
• Establishes reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across SDLC/toolchain practices, ensuring traceability/auditability, resiliency, and security controls.
• Acts as a trusted client-facing advisor across Infrastructure Platforms, helping Lines of Business with a focus on Commercial & Investment Bank (CIB) Markets and Securities Services navigate IP products and engage the right teams.
• Translates client strategies, new system development and customer needs into actionable infrastructure requirements and cross-domain solutions.
• Provides broad, consultative architecture across IP, helping clients adopt new products, migrate from legacy technologies and manage platform or cyber-security changes without disrupting applications

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and advanced applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Expertise in one or more programming language(s)
• Deep knowledge of software, applications, and architecture, including advanced software architecture, application development, and technical processes within one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• 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.
• Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex architecture problems in one or more technical disciplines
• Experience leading a product as a product owner or product manager
• Ability to present and effectively communicate to senior leaders and executives

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.