Principal Architect - Cloud Domain

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Jersey City, NJ seeks a Principal Architect to influence target state architecture and strategy across Global Technology. Lead governance, reusable frameworks, and enterprise-scale solutions to give the firm a competitive edge.

You will collaborate across domains to accelerate AI-enabled architecture, ensure security, and drive resilience while guiding leaders with clear, actionable insights.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of architecture experience and formal training or certs.
• Experience delivering system design, development, testing, and operations.
• Expertise in one or more architecture disciplines.
• Proven ability to influence across functions and teams.
• Extensive practical cloud-native experience.
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies for best solutions.
• Deep expertise in infrastructure architecture areas and governance.
• Experience leading AI adoption with governance and data sensitivity awareness.

Responsibilities

• Advises and leads architecture strategy across products, apps, and technologies.
• Translates complex issues and trends to leadership to guide decisions.
• Drives adoption of methods aligned with modern product development.
• Establishes and leads an architecture governance body.
• Creates durable, reusable software frameworks for velocity and quality.
• Partners across domains to reduce tooling duplication and ownership ambiguity.
• Improves traceability, cost-performance outcomes, and governance reviews.
• Evaluates emerging capabilities for enterprise fit and readiness.
• Leads reuse-first adoption of AI capabilities with human-in-the-loop validation.
• Establishes guardrails for AI-assisted workflows with security and resiliency.
• Champions diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Skills

Architecture governance

Cloud-native

Cross-functional leadership

AI capabilities

Security & compliance

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.