Principal Architect- Market Surveillance tech

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in the Corporate Sector (Trade Surveillance) seeks a Senior Lead Architect to shape target state architecture across platforms. You will drive governance, guide technology choices, and collaborate with engineering teams to deliver high-quality, secure solutions.

This role emphasizes leveraging enterprise AI capabilities with validation and data-sensitivity awareness, and contributing to the SDLC framework and reusable patterns.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on architecture concepts.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, development, testing and operations.
• Expertise in software architecture across multiple disciplines (cloud, AI, mobile, etc.).
• Experience applying enterprise AI within architecture workflows with data sensitivity.
• Ability to evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into enterprise-grade architectures.
• Strong judgment and communication to influence directions.
• Ability to work independently with minimal oversight.
• Experience evaluating current and emerging technologies.

Responsibilities

• Represents a product family in governance bodies and suggests improvements to architecture governance practices.
• Provides technical guidance to business teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI capabilities in architecture with validation and data handling.
• Guides evaluation of technologies using standards and frameworks.
• Drives decisions affecting product design, functionality, and operations.
• Develops secure, high-quality production code and reviews others' code.
• Serves as a domain SME and promotes enterprise SDLC practices.
• Establishes AI-enabled engineering patterns with traceability, resiliency and security controls.

Skills

System design

AI capabilities

Architecture governance

Security & compliance

Technical communication

Independent problem solving

Education

Architecture concepts training/certification

Job description

If you are excited about shaping the future of technology and driving significant business impact in financial services, we are looking for people just like you. Join our team and help us develop game-changing, high-quality solutions. As a Senior Lead Architect at JPMorganChase within the Corporate Sector(Trade Surveillance), you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for various software applications and platforms products. You drive significant business impact and help shape the target state architecture through your capabilities in multiple architecture domains.

Job Responsibilities

• Represents a product family in technical governance bodies and proposes improvements to architecture governance practices
• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis and decisioning across the product family, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.
• Guides evaluation of current and new technologies using existing standards and frameworks, influencing peers and decision-makers to adopt leading-edge solutions where appropriate
• Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert and contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide SDLC frameworks and practices
• Establishes reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across SDLC/toolchain practices, ensuring traceability/auditability, resiliency, and security controls.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) and deep expertise in software architecture, applications, and technical processes within one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience applying enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment in architecture and engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
• Ability to evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into enterprise-grade architectures while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to select or recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture
• Strong judgment and communication skills to influence technical direction across teams

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience leading architecture modernization, platform transformation, or cloud adoption initiatives.
• Strong financial services and enterprise technology experience.
• Experience establishing architecture standards, governance practices, and reusable enterprise patterns.