Strategic Principal Architect - AI-Driven Cloud Platform

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City, Northern (NJ, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Jersey City is seeking a Principal Architect to lead the development and adoption of cloud-based architectures across critical platforms and domains. You will define end-to-end solution architectures, while mentoring engineers, driving reusable patterns, and ensuring security, resilience, and regulatory alignment at scale.

The role partners with CTOs and senior leaders to translate business strategy into pragmatic roadmaps and to accelerate delivery across multi-region

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience.
• Proven track record leading architecture for large, distributed, mission-critical systems with 24x7 operations and high resiliency targets.
• Deep expertise in architecture patterns: microservices, event-driven and streaming architectures, API-led connectivity, data mesh/lakehouse, CQRS, and domain-driven design.
• Experience with hyperscale cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), container orchestration (Kubernetes), service mesh, CI/CD, IaC, observability, and platform engineering.
• Security and resiliency expertise: zero trust, secrets management, identity, encryption, chaos engineering, disaster recovery, and site reliability practices.
• Integration and legacy modernization: messaging, APIs, eventing, SOA-to-microservices transitions, mainframe integration, and strangler-fig approaches.
• Executive presence with ability to simplify complexity and influence outcomes across senior stakeholders in both the business and technology.
• Strong vendor management and build/buy/partner decisioning; experience shaping multi-year investment portfolios.
• 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 scalable platforms while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements.

Responsibilities

• Translates business strategy into pragmatic solution roadmaps and reference architectures
• Drives architecture decisions balancing resilience, scalability, latency, cost, risk, and time-to-market.
• Sets and enforces design principles, patterns, and guardrails across portfolios
• Establishes reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across SDLC/toolchain practices, ensuring traceability/auditability, resiliency, and security controls.
• Chairs or contributes to Architecture Review Boards, ensuring compliance with enterprise standards and regulatory obligations
• Builds trusted advisor relationships with CTOs, Chief Architects, and senior leaders to co-create technology strategy and execution plans
• Facilitates outcome-focused dialogue between business, product, and technology leaders to align trade-offs and secure buy-in
• Applies enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis, roadmap development, and design decisioning, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.
• Provides hands-on oversight and coaching to domain architects and engineering leads, intervening in complex design issues as needed
• Owns target and transitional architectures for complex, multi-region systems across customer, risk, finance, data, and payments domains
• Mentor and develop high-performing architects, fostering a community of practice and promoting reusability through reference implementations

Skills

Architecture patterns

Microservices

Event-driven

API-led connectivity

Data mesh/lakehouse

CQRS

Domain-driven design

Cloud platforms AWS/Azure/GCP

Kubernetes

Security & resilience

AI governance in architecture

Executive presence

Education

Formal software engineering training

Tools

CI/CD

IaC

Observability

Platform engineering

SRE practices

Job description

JPMorganChase in Jersey City is seeking a Principal Architect to lead the development and adoption of cloud-based architectures across critical platforms and domains. You will define end-to-end solution architectures, while mentoring engineers, driving reusable patterns, and ensuring security, resilience, and regulatory alignment at scale.

The role partners with CTOs and senior leaders to translate business strategy into pragmatic roadmaps and to accelerate delivery across multi-region