Executive Director - Principal Architect | Cloud Domain

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Principal Architect within Global Technology supporting Enterprise Architecture to influence target state architecture and strategy across multiple products and technologies.

You will lead architecture governance, drive adoption of scalable frameworks, and collaborate with enterprise teams to ensure secure, resilient solutions that provide competitive advantage.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of applied architecture experience and formal training or certification.
• Experience delivering system design, development, testing, and operations.
• Expertise in one or more architecture disciplines.
• Proven ability to influence across functions to deliver modern architecture.
• Experience applying methods to solve complex architecture problems across disciplines.
• Extensive cloud native experience.
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies for future-state architectures.
• Deep expertise in Infrastructure Architecture areas (ITSM, Monitoring/Observability, Cloud Compute/Storage, App Integration, IT Asset Mgmt, Networking/Systems).
• Experience leading safe adoption of enterprise-approved AI capabilities with governance.

Responsibilities

• Advises and leads architecture strategy across products, applications, and technologies.
• Translates complex technical issues for leadership to drive strategic decisions about target state architecture.
• Drives adoption of technical methods in specialized fields per current development methodologies.
• Establishes and leads an architecture governance body.
• Creates reusable software frameworks to improve velocity and quality across teams.
• Partners across domains to reduce tooling duplication and maintain lifecycle governance.
• Improves decision traceability, cost-performance, and review-board effectiveness with standards and guardrails.
• Evaluates emerging capabilities for enterprise fit and readiness.
• Leads reuse-first adoption of AI capabilities with human-in-the-loop validation and data sensitivity handling.

Skills

Architecture concepts

System design

Cloud native

Cross-functional influence

Emerging technologies evaluation

AI capabilities adoption

Infrastructure Architecture

IT Service Management

Governance & guardrails

Job description

You’re a pro who wants to influence the future of technical architecture and our team is looking for people like you.
As a Principal Architect at JPMorgan Chase within Global Technology supporting Enterprise Architecture, youprovide specialized expertise to influence the target state architecture and strategy. Work across teams to implement and advance the adoption of complex strategic global solutions that give JPMorgan Chase a competitive advantage.

Job responsibilities

• Advises and leads on architecture strategy of multiple products, applications, and technologies across a portfolio
• Translates highly complex technical issues, trends, and approaches to leadership to drive the firm’s innovation and enable leaders to make strategic, well-informed decisions about target state architecture
• Drives adoption and implementation of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies
• Establishes and leads an architecture governance body
• Creates durable, reusable software frameworks that improves velocity and quality of output across teams and functions
• Partner across domains to reduce tooling duplication, clarify ownership, and maintain authoritative technology status and lifecycle governance
• Improve decision traceability, cost-performance outcomes, and review-board effectiveness through clear standards, metrics, and architectural guardrails
• Evaluate emerging capabilities for enterprise fit and adoption readiness.
• Leads reuse-first adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis, option evaluation, and delivery of strategic global solutions, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.
• Establishes portfolio-level guardrails for AI-assisted and agentic workflows used in architecture and engineering governance, including traceability/auditability and control expectations aligned to resiliency and security standards.
• Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Obtain 7 plus years of applied experience and formal training or certification on Architecture concepts
• Practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Expertise in one or more architecture disciplines
• Demonstrated prior experience influencing across functions and teams to deliver modern architecture
• Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex architecture problems across various technical disciplines
• Extensive practical cloud native experience
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best technology solutions and approaches to achieve the future state architecture
• Deep expertise across Infrastructure Architecture areas, including IT Service Management, Monitoring and Observability, Cloud Compute and Storage, Application Integration, and IT Asset Management, Network and Systems Administration.
• Demonstrated experience leading safe adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment across architecture workflows, including validation practices and awareness of data sensitivity.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Strong understanding of hybrid and multi-cloud operational models, including resilience, identity, secrets, networking, and secure operations.
• Expertise in operational automation, event intelligence, and self-healing workflows integrated with ticketing and incident processes.
• Experience with enterprise CMDB and asset intelligence programs that improve control compliance and cost transparency.
• Familiarity with financial-services regulatory and control frameworks for operational resilience and auditability.