Data & Analytics Platform Architect Lead

JPMorganChase; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Principal Architect in Corporate Technology's CDAS to lead target-state architectures for Reference Data, KYC, and trade data platforms. You will drive modernization, governance, AI adoption, and cross-team collaboration across Finance and Risk functions.

You will mentor architects, influence executives, and ensure data governance, security, and resiliency standards are met across multi-region deployments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of applied experience, including 7+ years leading architecture for large-scale data platforms.
• Deep expertise in data mesh, lakehouse, canonical data modeling, domain-driven design and event-driven architectures.
• Proven track record leading architecture governance with ARB participation and standards enforcement.
• Strong knowledge of AWS, cloud-native platforms, container orchestration, CI/CD, IaC, observability, and platform engineering.
• Experience with real-time and batch processing technologies like Kafka, Databricks, Spark, Snowflake; governance patterns.
• Hands-on data governance: metadata management, lineage, quality, classification and localization controls.
• Experience shaping AI strategy including LLM integration, MLOps, model governance, responsible AI.
• Executive presence to influence C-suite and balance competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Owns and maintains target-state architectures for CDAS platforms supporting Finance and Risk.
• Leads architecture governance across the tower with design principles and review processes.
• Drives modernization roadmaps balancing debt reduction, resilience, scalability, and time-to-market.
• Chairs Architecture Review Boards; represents tower in firmwide architecture forums.
• Interacts with senior leaders to influence technology investments and strategic direction.
• Provides coaching to domain architects and engineering leads on complex design challenges.
• Ensures compliance with data governance, risk, security, resiliency and multi-region requirements.
• Establishes AI-enabled engineering patterns with traceability, auditability, and controls by design.
• Mentors architecture practice and fosters craftsmanship across teams and data practitioners.
• Translates complex technical issues for leadership to enable informed decisions on target state.

Skills

Leadership

Architecture governance

AWS

Databricks

Kafka

Data governance

AI strategy

LLM integration

Cloud-native platforms

Strong communication

Education

Formal architecture/software engineering training

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

IaC

Databricks

Spark

Snowflake

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Principal Architect in Corporate Technology's CDAS to lead target-state architectures for Reference Data, KYC, and trade data platforms. You will drive modernization, governance, AI adoption, and cross-team collaboration across Finance and Risk functions.

You will mentor architects, influence executives, and ensure data governance, security, and resiliency standards are met across multi-region deployments.