Senior Principal Architect, Data & Analytics Services

If you are excited about shaping the future of technology and driving significant business impact in financial services, we are looking for people just like you. Join our team and help us develop game‑changing, high-quality solutions.

As a Senior Principal Architect at JPMorgan

Chase within Corporate Technology – Corporate Data & Analytics Services (CDAS), you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high‑quality architecture solutions for various software applications and platform products. You drive significant business impact and help shape the target state architecture through your capabilities in multiple architecture domains.

You will own the target‑state architecture for platforms spanning Reference Data, KYC, and Common Trade and Position Data. You’ll drive modernization, governance, and AI adoption across a portfolio supporting firmwide finance and risk processing. Your leadership will influence technology investment, foster architectural craftsmanship, and ensure compliance with data governance and resiliency standards.

• Owns and maintains the target‑state and transitional architectures for the CDAS tower, spanning Reference Data, KYC, and Common Trade and Position Data platforms that support Finance and Risk functions firmwide
• Leads architecture governance across the tower — establishing design principles, guardrails, and review processes that ensure solutions are built consistently and cohesively with CT architectural direction
• Drives the modernization roadmap for critical data applications, balancing technical debt reduction, platform resilience, scalability, cost, and time‑to‑market
• Chairs or contributes to Architecture Review Boards; represents the tower in firmwide and CT architecture forums, contributing reference patterns and governance guidance for broader adoption
• Acts as primary technical interface with senior leaders, CTOs, Chief Architects, and business stakeholders — building trusted advisor relationships and influencing technology investment decisions
• Provides hands‑on oversight and coaching to domain architects and engineering leads; intervenes directly in complex design challenges and escalated technical decisions
• Ensures all platforms adhere to firmwide data governance, data risk management policy, regulatory obligations, and security and resiliency standards — including multi‑region resiliency requirements
• Establishes reuse‑first AI‑enabled engineering patterns across SDLC and toolchain practices, ensuring traceability, auditability, and security controls are embedded by design
• Mentors and develops a high‑performing architecture practice; fosters a community of craftsmanship across architects, engineers, and data practitioners in the tower
• Translates highly complex technical issues, trends, and approaches to leadership to drive the firm’s innovation and enable leaders to make strategic, well‑informed decisions about target state architecture
  
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• 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

• Formal training or certification on architecture and software engineering concepts and 10+ years of applied experience, including 7+ years leading architecture for large‑scale, mission‑critical data platforms in complex, regulated environments
• Deep expertise in data architecture patterns: data mesh, lakehouse, canonical data modeling, domain‑driven design, event‑driven and streaming architectures, CQRS, and API‑led connectivity
• Proven track record leading architecture governance at portfolio scale — design principles, ARB participation, standards enforcement, and cross‑team alignment
• Strong knowledge of AWS, cloud‑native platforms , container orchestration, CI/CD, IaC, observability, and platform engineering practices
• Experience with real‑time and batch data processing technologies (Kafka, Databricks, Spark, Snowflake or equivalent) and the governance and resiliency patterns that operate within them
• Hands‑on…