Senior Principal Architect: Cloud & Infrastructure Resiliency

Testing Site - JPMC; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Jersey City is seeking a Senior Principal Architect to influence the future of technical architecture. You will work across teams to implement and advance the adoption of complex strategic global solutions that give JPMC a competitive advantage and ensure durable, high-quality technology frameworks that scale firmwide.

As a senior leader, you will advise executives, lead architecture governance, evaluate emerging technologies, and guide budgeting for cost-saving opportunities

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering with 10+ years of applicable experience.
• Experience delivering system design, development, testing, and operational stability.
• Extensive cloud-native, on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud experience.

Responsibilities

• Advises and influences executives, leading architecture review boards across IT Infrastructure tools.
• Leads cloud, on-prem, hybrid projects and infra integration initiatives.
• Translates complex technical issues for leadership to inform decision-making on target state architecture.
• Drives adoption of modern methods in line with product development methodologies.
• Establishes architecture governance and ensures policy compliance with ADRs.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Cloud & infra

Stakeholder influence

Governance

Multi-cloud

IaC

Budgeting impact

Software architecture

Education

10+ years experience

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

OPA/Rego

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 JPMorganChase within the CorporateTechnology's Enterprise Architecture team, you will work across teams to implement and advance the adoption of complex strategic global solutions that give JPMC a competitive advantage. Your leadership will drive innovation, foster collaboration and ensure the delivery of durable, high-quality technology frameworks that scale firmwide.

Job responsibilities

• Advises and influences executives, stakeholders, and portfolio owners, leading architecture review boards to develop and maintain IT Infrastructure tools across the enterprise, including selection, integration, and retirement.
• Serves as a subject matter expert on IT Cloud & Infrastructure, delivering technology capabilities and managing sprawl in areas such as Application Infrastructure, Hosting, Networking, Application Integration, and Hyperconverged Infrastructure.
• 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, ensuring compliance and governance with architecture decision records and policies.
• Creates durable, reusable software frameworks that improve velocity and quality of output across teams and functions.
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best technology solutions and approaches to achieve the future state architecture
• Evaluates emerging technologies and vendors, lead proof-of-concept initiatives, and advise on budgeting and financial impact, identifying cost savings opportunities.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience
• Practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Expertise in one or more programming language(s), applications, and 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, on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud experience
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best technology solutions and approaches to achieve the future state architecture
• 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

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 5+ years applied experience in software-defined infrastructure
• 2+ years applied experience in software engineering
• Relevant Architecture certifications (e.g., TOGAF, AWS/Azure/GCP Architect, ITIL, CISSP, PMP)
• Expertise in “Infrastructure as Code” provisioning, automation, and policy enforcement frameworks (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Puppet, Open Policy Agent/OPA/Rego)