Senior Principal Architect - Application Platforms

Next Frontier Capital; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Senior Principal Architect within Global Technology Enterprise Architecture to influence target-state architecture and strategy across a broad portfolio. You will lead cross-team efforts, establish governance, and accelerate enterprise AI adoption with robust controls and data sensitivity in mind.

You will drive modernization, strategy alignment, and governance to deliver scalable, secure software platforms, while championing diversity and inclusion across the firm’s

Qualifications

• 10+ years of architecture experience and formal training or certification.
• Experience delivering system design, development, testing, and operational stability.
• Expertise in one or more architecture disciplines.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across functions to deliver modern architecture.
• Extensive practical cloud native experience.
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies for future state architecture.
• Strong enterprise expertise across applications, collaboration platforms, security governance, interoperability, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Advises and leads on architecture strategy across products, applications, and technologies.
• Translates highly complex technical issues to leadership to drive strategic decisions about target state architecture.
• Drives adoption of technical methods in line with product development methodologies.
• Establishes and leads an architecture governance body.
• Creates durable, reusable software frameworks to improve velocity and quality across teams.
• Partners across domains to reduce tooling duplication and maintain governance.
• Improves decision traceability, cost-performance outcomes, and architectural guardrails.
• Evaluates emerging capabilities for enterprise fit and readiness.
• Leads reuse-first adoption of enterprise AI capabilities with human-in-the-loop validation.
• Establishes portfolio-level guardrails for AI-enabled workflows with traceability and security alignment.
• Champions diversity, inclusion, and respect.

Skills

Architecture strategy

Leadership across teams

Cloud native

Enterprise architecture

AI governance

Hybrid multi-cloud

Stakeholder influence

Tools

Architecture governance

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 Senior Principal Architect at JPMorgan Chase within Global Technology Enterprise Architecture, you provide 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 10 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 enterprise expertise across Application & Collaboration Platforms Architecture areas including collaboration and communication ecosystems, document/content lifecycle management, multimedia toolchains, secure-by-design governance and compliance, integration/interoperability patterns, reliability and lifecycle operations, portfolio rationalization, financial/TCO decisioning, and executive-level change leadership.
• Strong understanding of hybrid and multi-cloud operational models
• 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

• Advanced certifications in cloud, enterprise architecture, ITSM, SRE, or security disciplines.
• 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.

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success. As a Senior Principal Architect within JPMorganChase Global Technology Enterprise Architecture, you are the firm’s DevOps Domain Architect and recognized SME for the DevOps category. You define and evolve the domain’s target-state architecture, Technology Preferences, and strategic roadmap, while modernizing governance through architecture review boards that evaluate technology intake, onboarding, adoption, and retirement. You provide advisory leadership to Tech Domain Owners and engineering teams to ensure standards and control compliance, improve decision traceability, and drive rationalization that reduces duplication and maximizes enterprise investment. You also lead emerging-technology evaluations and partner across domains to align engineering effectiveness, resilience, security, and financial transparency for scalable, secure, and reliable firmwide software delivery platforms.