Enterprise Cloud Architecture Leader | AI-Driven Strategy

Archer; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Principal Architect to lead and govern enterprise-scale architecture across platforms and transformations. You will define end-to-end solution architectures, partner with CTOs and senior leaders, and drive AI-enabled patterns with strong security and resiliency practices.

You will mentor domain architects, accelerate delivery, and ensure traceability and auditability across multi-region systems in customer, risk, finance, data, and payments domains.

Qualifications

• 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.

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 reusable AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across SDLC/toolchain with traceability 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.

Skills

Executive presence

Architectural leadership

Cloud architecture

AI governance

Security & resiliency

Stakeholder management

Education

TOGAF

CISSP

AWS/Azure/GCP Architect

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

IaC

AWS/Azure/GCP

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Principal Architect to lead and govern enterprise-scale architecture across platforms and transformations. You will define end-to-end solution architectures, partner with CTOs and senior leaders, and drive AI-enabled patterns with strong security and resiliency practices.

You will mentor domain architects, accelerate delivery, and ensure traceability and auditability across multi-region systems in customer, risk, finance, data, and payments domains.