Strategic Principal Architect, DSS Platform & Data

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Principal Architect to drive evolution of critical infrastructure and data platforms. You will provide technical leadership across product lines, partnering with peers to develop target-state architecture and multi-year roadmaps for a diverse estate including cloud, mainframe, data services, and digital workflows.

You will stay hands-on, mentoring engineers, and shaping secure, scalable solutions while applying AI-enabled practices with governance and risk controls.

Responsibilities

• Advise cross-functional teams on technology selection and architecture trade-offs, balancing delivery speed, resiliency, security, operational stability, cost, maintainability, and strategic alignment.
• Lead architecture for complex hybrid estates, including cloud, on-premises, SaaS, mainframe, midrange, distributed compute, data, workflow, observability, automation, and integration technologies as relevant to the assigned scope.
• Support the development of target-state architecture, capability maps, reference architectures, and multi-year modernization roadmaps for assigned product lines, platforms, or strategic initiatives.
• Create and maintain reusable architecture patterns, reference implementations, design guidance, and machine-readable architecture artefacts that make secure and compliant delivery easier for engineering teams.
• Partner with other Principal Architects and governance teams to improve architecture governance processes, including RFCs, ADRs, controls traceability, and auditable decision records.
• Apply enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to accelerate architecture analysis, roadmap development, impact assessment, and engineering practices, with human-in-the-loop validation, sensitive data handling, and robust controls.
• Remain hands-on in technical delivery, including architecture modeling of platforms and products; develop, review, and debug production code, prototypes, infrastructure definitions, or automation.
• Mentor architects and senior engineers, and communicate technical strategy and decisions effectively to senior leaders and executives.

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Principal Architect to drive evolution of critical infrastructure and data platforms. You will provide technical leadership across product lines, partnering with peers to develop target-state architecture and multi-year roadmaps for a diverse estate including cloud, mainframe, data services, and digital workflows.

You will stay hands-on, mentoring engineers, and shaping secure, scalable solutions while applying AI-enabled practices with governance and risk controls.