Principal Architect, Executive Director: Solution Architecture

JPMorgan Chase

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Jersey City, NJ
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72 days ago
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About JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a global financial services firm and one of the largest banks in the world, offering investment banking, commercial banking, asset management, and consumer financial services.

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TL;DR · Principal Architect, Executive Director: Solution Architecture

As a Principal Architect, Executive Director: Solution Architecture within the Enterprise Technology team, you will serve as a strategic leader defining and governing end-to-end solution architectures for critical platforms and transformation programs. You will translate business strategy into pragmatic roadmaps, establish design principles, and manage trade-offs regarding scalability, latency, and risk. Your daily work involves partnering with senior leaders to co-create technology strategies while providing hands-on guidance to engineering teams. You will build AI-enabled engineering patterns, oversee multi-region systems across customer, risk, finance, data, and payments domains, and ensure compliance with regulatory obligations. Required expertise includes microservices, event-driven architectures, API-led connectivity, and data mesh. You will utilize hyperscale cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and IaC while applying enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to accelerate analysis and design decisioning within a highly regulated financial services environment.

What you'll do

  • Translate business strategy into pragmatic solution roadmaps and reference architectures.
  • Define and govern end-to-end solution architectures for critical platforms and transformation programs.
  • Drive architectural decisions balancing scalability, resilience, cost, risk, and time-to-market.
  • Establish and enforce design principles, patterns, and guardrails across technology portfolios.
  • Implement AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across the software development lifecycle.
  • Chair Architecture Review Boards to ensure compliance with enterprise standards and regulatory obligations.
  • Provide hands-on oversight, coaching, and technical guidance to domain architects and engineering leads.
  • Own target and transitional architectures for complex, multi-region systems in finance and data domains.

What we're looking for

  • Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
  • 10+ years of applied experience in software engineering.
  • Proven track record leading architecture for large, distributed, mission-critical systems with high resiliency targets.
  • Deep expertise in microservices, event-driven/streaming architectures, API-led connectivity, data mesh, and domain-driven design.
  • Experience with hyperscale cloud platforms, Kubernetes, service mesh, CI/CD, IaC, and platform engineering.
  • Expertise in security and resiliency practices including zero trust, secrets management, encryption, and chaos engineering.
  • Experience in legacy modernization, mainframe integration, and SOA-to-microservices transitions.
  • Demonstrated experience integrating AI-enabled capabilities into architecture and engineering workflows with focus on security and auditability.

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