Principal Architect, AI-Driven Enterprise Innovation

JPMorgan Chase; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 204,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Principal Architect within Asset and Wealth Management to define the technical vision, architecture strategy, and engineering standards across critical platforms. The role combines executive leadership with hands-on governance over AI-enabled engineering and modern cloud-native transformations.

The position requires deep experience in enterprise architecture, cloud-native patterns, microservices, and data architecture, with a focus on governance, security, and

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering & architecture with technical leadership at scale.
• Proven senior/principal architect with enterprise architecture vision and governance experience.

Responsibilities

• Define the architecture strategy for AI-native engineering and how agentic AI reshapes SDLC.
• Establish AI-enabled patterns: spec-first development, agent-driven code generation with architectural constraints.
• Define and enforce guardrails and governance for AI in engineering: human-in-the-loop approvals, traceability, and quality gates.
• Lead engineers to balance design excellence with hands-on implementation and mentoring.
• Drive cloud-native transformation, API-first design, event-driven and domain-driven architectures, and data mesh patterns.
• Apply enterprise‑authorized AI capabilities to accelerate architecture analysis and roadmap development.
• Lead architecture governance with principles, reference architectures, and decision frameworks.
• Drive architecture simplification, reduce technical debt, and accelerate time-to-market.
• Establish reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns with traceability and security controls.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud-native design

AI-enabled engineering

Executive leadership

CI/CD & IaC

Security & compliance

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud platforms

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Principal Architect within Asset and Wealth Management to define the technical vision, architecture strategy, and engineering standards across critical platforms. The role combines executive leadership with hands-on governance over AI-enabled engineering and modern cloud-native transformations.

The position requires deep experience in enterprise architecture, cloud-native patterns, microservices, and data architecture, with a focus on governance, security, and