Senior Principal Architect: AI-Driven Data Platforms

Next Frontier Capital; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive total rewards package

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Principal Architect to own target-state architectures for platforms spanning Reference Data, KYC, and Common Trade and Position Data, driving modernization and AI adoption across Finance and Risk processes.

The role requires leadership across architecture governance, mentoring engineers, and ensuring data governance, security, and resiliency standards are applied firmwide. Strong executive communication is essential.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on architecture and software engineering concepts with 10+ years of applied experience.
• Experience leading architecture for large-scale data platforms in regulated environments.
• Proven governance experience at portfolio scale with ARB participation and cross-team alignment.
• Strong knowledge of AWS and cloud-native platforms, container orchestration, CI/CD, IaC, observability.

Responsibilities

• Owns and maintains the target-state and transitional architectures for the CDAS tower, spanning Reference Data, KYC, and Common Trade and Position Data platforms that support Finance and Risk functions firmwide
• Leads architecture governance across the tower — establishing design principles, guardrails, and review processes that ensure solutions are built consistently and cohesively with CT architectural direction
• Drives the modernization roadmap for critical data applications, balancing technical debt reduction, platform resilience, scalability, cost, and time-to-market
• Chairs or contributes to Architecture Review Boards; represents the tower in firmwide and CT architecture forums, contributing reference patterns and governance guidance for broader adoption
• Acts as primary technical interface with senior leaders, CTOs, Chief Architects, and business stakeholders — building trusted advisor relationships and influencing technology investment decisions
• Provides hands‑on oversight and coaching to domain architects and engineering leads; intervenes directly in complex design challenges and escalated technical decisions
• Ensures all platforms adhere to firmwide data governance, data risk management policy, regulatory obligations, and security and resiliency standards
• Establishes reuse‑first AI‑enabled engineering patterns across SDLC and toolchain practices, ensuring traceability, auditability, and security controls are embedded by design
• Mentors and develops a high‑performing architecture practice; fosters a community of craftsmanship across architects, engineers, and data practitioners in the tower
• 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 Sr Principal Architect.docx
• 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

Skills

data mesh

lakehouse

domain-driven design

event-driven architecture

API-led connectivity

AWS

cloud-native platforms

container orchestration

CI/CD

IaC

observability

AI strategy

MLOps

model governance

responsible AI

data governance

LLM integration patterns

validation practices

zero trust

site reliability

executive communication

Tools

Kafka

Databricks

Spark

Snowflake

Kubernetes

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Principal Architect to own target-state architectures for platforms spanning Reference Data, KYC, and Common Trade and Position Data, driving modernization and AI adoption across Finance and Risk processes.

The role requires leadership across architecture governance, mentoring engineers, and ensuring data governance, security, and resiliency standards are applied firmwide. Strong executive communication is essential.