Principal Architect - Enterprise Architecture

Step into the role of a Principal Architect at JPMorgan Chase and become a driving force behind the development and adoption of  cloud-based technologies.

Job responsibilities

• • Define and own architectural direction for major cross-firm programs spanning multiple organizations.

• • Drive firm level architectural initiatives such as resilience, simplification, inventory, entitlements, or agentic development.

• • Author reference patterns and influential narratives focused on emerging and existing technology challenges that enjoy broad adoption across the firm.

• • Chair or sponsor major Architecture Working Groups and standards forums and set the bar for effective governance that helps drive firmwide change.

• • Mediate between organizations to converge on shared architectural target states and paved paths when localized approaches diverge.

• • Stay hands-on and focus on our hardest technology problems including reviewing design and code in detail as needed.

• • Influence the decisions of Executive Directors and Market Directors level leaders across functions and activate their organizations to adopt and champion our architectural direction.

    Align architectural target states, standards, and paved paths with multi-year business strategies, operational constraints, and ongoing technology initiatives.

• • Make the case for major technological investments based on our architectural recommendations and clearly articulate tradeoffs (e.g., costs, risks, timelines).

• • Mentor Principal track architects. Establish team and organization level learning mechanisms such as postmortems, playbooks, or reviews.

  • Leverages enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis and decisioning across the product family, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.

  • Establishes reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across SDLC/toolchain practices, ensuring traceability/auditability, resiliency, and security controls. 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• • Obtain 10 plus years in architecture or

    About Company

    JP Morgan Chase & Co. is one of the world's largest and most prestigious financial institutions, headquartered in New York City. It operates in over 100 countries, providing a wide range of financial services including investment banking, asset management, commercial banking, and wealth management.The company serves corporations, governments, institutions, and individual clients, offering expertise in areas such as mergers and acquisitions (M&A), securities trading, and credit management. Known for its global reach and financial strength, JP Morgan is a leader in innovation and sustainability within the banking industry.