Sr Principal Architect- HW Performance

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase Senior Principal Architect role within Infrastructure Platforms seeks a seasoned leader to influence target-state architecture for the firm’s on-premises compute ecosystem. You will partner with the Chief Architect to set standards, govern architecture and drive modernization across multiple technology domains.

You will oversee architecture strategy, governance forums, and AI-infrastructure evolution while ensuring regulatory compliance and secure, scalable deployment patterns

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in architecture with 10+ years of experience.
• Experience leading large-scale infrastructure or platform architecture programs.
• Deep expertise in on-premises compute, VM lifecycles, and hypervisors.
• Proven ability to govern architecture and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Advise and lead architecture strategy across multiple tech domains.
• Lead reusable AI governance within architecture workflows.
• Translate complex concepts into actionable recommendations for senior leadership.
• Drive zero-trust security models and attestation across workloads.
• Govern architecture reviews, risk assessments, and regulatory alignment.
• Create architecture decision records, reference architectures, standards.
• Establish IaC standards and cross-team alignment without direct authority.
• Lead sovereign and air-gapped deployment architecture considerations.
• Contribute to AI infrastructure architecture evolution including GPUs/DPUs/IPUs.
• Establish guardrails for AI-assisted workflows with traceability.

Skills

Architecture leadership

On-prem compute

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Zero-trust security

Governance

Datacenter networking

Education

Architecture certification

Tools

VMware

KVM

Hyper-V

Kubernetes

OpenShift

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 Infrastructure Platforms, you provide specialized expertise to influence the target state architecture and strategy for the firm's on-premises compute ecosystem. Work across teams to implement and advance the adoption of strategic infrastructure solutions that support enterprise-scale compute platforms, architecture governance, and long-term technology modernization. You will partner closely with the Chief Architect to drive systems architecture across multiple technology domains, establish architectural standards, and influence technology direction across the organization.

Job responsibilities

• Advises and leads architecture strategy across multiple technology domains within the firm's on-premises compute stack, including bare-metal provisioning, hypervisor platforms, virtual machine lifecycle management, container orchestration, software-defined networking, and infrastructure APIs.
• Leads reuse-first adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within architecture workflows to accelerate architecture analysis, design evaluation, and strategic decision-making while maintaining appropriate governance and oversight.
• Translates highly complex infrastructure, platform, and security architecture concepts into actionable recommendations for senior technology leadership to influence the firm's target state architecture.
• Drives architectural direction for infrastructure identity, attestation, and zero-trust security models spanning hardware root-of-trust, workload identity, and secure platform services.
• Leads architecture governance activities across a portfolio of critical applications, including design reviews, risk assessment, regulatory alignment, and technology control adherence.
• Authors and maintains architecture decision records, reference architectures, standards, and design patterns that guide engineering teams and ensure consistency across domains.
• Establishes architectural frameworks and infrastructure-as-code standards that serve as reference implementations for engineering teams across the organization.
• Drives cross-organizational alignment with peer architecture groups, enterprise governance bodies, and infrastructure reference architecture teams to influence strategic outcomes without direct authority.
• Leads architecture for sovereign and air-gapped deployment environments, addressing data sovereignty requirements, operational isolation, and regional regulatory obligations.
• Contributes to the evolution of AI infrastructure architecture, including accelerator technologies such as GPUs, DPUs, and IPUs, and their integration within the broader compute platform.
• 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.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• A. Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 10+ years applied experience
• Extensive experience leading infrastructure or platform architecture initiatives within large-scale technology organizations, including operating at Senior Principal Architect, Distinguished Engineer, or Chief Architect level.
• Deep expertise in on-premises compute infrastructure, including bare-metal provisioning, hypervisor technologies such as VMware, KVM, or Hyper-V, and full virtual machine lifecycle management.
• Practical experience delivering system design, platform engineering, application development, testing, and operational stability across complex infrastructure environments.
• Production experience designing and operating Kubernetes, OpenShift, or similar container platforms, including cluster lifecycle management, multi-tenancy, and workload orchestration at scale.
• Deep understanding of datacenter networking technologies, including software-defined networking, network virtualization, and physical-to-logical network abstraction.
• Expertise in infrastructure identity and security architecture, including hardware attestation, workload identity frameworks, and zero-trust architecture principles.
• Demonstrated experience leading architecture governance forums, conducting design reviews, and translating regulatory and control requirements into architectural standards.
• Demonstrated experience leading safe adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within architecture workflows, including validation practices, governance controls, and sensitive data handling.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience operating in multi-hypervisor or multi-platform environments supporting workloads across multiple virtualization technologies.
• Familiarity with sovereign cloud, air-gapped environments, and architectures designed to meet data sovereignty and regional regulatory requirements.
• Experience with storage architecture, including SAN, NAS, distributed storage, and enterprise resilience engineering practices.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery, datacenter failover strategies, business continuity planning, and fault isolation design principles.