Enterprise Data Architecture Lead

Aumni; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Principal Architect for Foundational Services to drive an enterprise‑grade data architecture discipline. You will translate standards into usable engineering patterns, enable live delivery, and resolve cross‑product data decisions that individual teams cannot settle alone.

You will lead the design of canonical definitions, data contracts, and integration strategies while partnering with a broad set of architects, engineers, and product teams to ensure alignment with

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 10+ years applied experience.
• Extensive experience in data architecture, enterprise architecture, software architecture, or a comparable technical leadership role within a large, complex organization.
• Deep working knowledge of conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling, relational design, identifiers, integrity constraints, schema evolution, and data contracts.
• Experience designing and governing data integration patterns across APIs, event-driven architectures, streaming platforms, batch processing, replication, and analytical environments.
• Demonstrated ability to establish common data semantics, ownership models, and canonical definitions across multiple products, systems, and business domains.

Responsibilities

• Define the target-state data architecture for Foundational Services, establishing clear boundaries between systems of record, analytical data stores, caches, and derived data products.
• Develop a prioritized data architecture roadmap that moves teams from inconsistent, after-the-fact data design to a model-first delivery discipline.
• Establish reusable engineering patterns for producing, sharing, moving, storing, and consuming data — including APIs, events, streaming, batch processing, and replication.
• Define and govern standards for data contracts, schema evolution, metadata management, lineage, data quality, retention, lifecycle management, and ownership.
• Lead enterprise data architecture decisions, including canonical data definitions, systems-of-record strategy, cross-product data semantics, and integration design.
• Require material schema and integration changes to have an updated model, named owner, and approved data contract before implementation.
• Establish a lightweight architecture review and exception process that supports delivery while protecting critical data decisions.
• Coach architects, engineers, product teams, and data owners on approved patterns and standards.
• Assess logical-model and physical-schema alignment for priority applications, lead remediation of existing model and schema drift.

Skills

Data architecture

Enterprise architecture

Software architecture

Leadership

Data modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Tools

APIs

Event-driven architectures

Streaming platforms

Batch processing

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Principal Architect for Foundational Services to drive an enterprise‑grade data architecture discipline. You will translate standards into usable engineering patterns, enable live delivery, and resolve cross‑product data decisions that individual teams cannot settle alone.

You will lead the design of canonical definitions, data contracts, and integration strategies while partnering with a broad set of architects, engineers, and product teams to ensure alignment with