Executive Director & Principal Cloud Architect

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

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.