Principal Architect, Executive Director: Solution Architecture

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

As a Principal Architect within the Corporate Technology team, you are part of a team that develops and supports high‑quality architecture strategy and solutions for software applications and platform products. You drive significant business impact and help shape target‑state architecture across multiple domains.

You will serve as a strategic technology leader, defining and governing end‑to‑end solution architectures for critical platforms and transformation programs. You partner closely with CTOs, Chief Architects, and senior engineering leaders to deliver business and technology strategy. Your role blends deep architectural expertise with executive presence, influencing business and technology stakeholders and providing hands‑on guidance to engineering teams. You help accelerate delivery, embed security and resiliency, and foster a high‑performing architecture community.

• Translate business strategy into pragmatic solution roadmaps and reference architectures
• Drive architecture decisions balancing resilience, scalability, latency, cost, risk, and time‑to‑market
• Set and enforce design principles, patterns, and guardrails across portfolios
• Chair or contribute to Architecture Review Boards, ensuring compliance with enterprise standards and regulatory obligations
• Build trusted advisor relationships with CTOs, Chief Architects, and senior leaders to co‑create technology strategy and execution plans
• Facilitate outcome‑focused dialogue between business, product, and technology leaders to align trade‑offs and secure buy‑in
• Guide programs from concept to production, shaping epics and non‑functional requirements, and ensuring traceability to business outcomes
• Provide hands‑on oversight and coaching to domain architects and engineering leads, intervening in complex design issues as needed
• Own 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

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 10+ years of 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
• Strong knowledge of real‑time streaming (Kafka, Pulsar), batch analytics, MLOps, model governance, and responsible AI patterns
• 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 business and technology
• Strong vendor management and build/buy/partner decisioning; experience shaping multi‑year investment portfolios
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)

• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP Architect, TOGAF, CISSP, SAFe)
• Experience in global financial services and regulated environments
• Hands‑on pragmatism; able to review designs and code‑level artifacts while maintaining a strategic lens
• Experience with platform engineering, green software, and confidential computing
• Strong communication and relationship‑building skills across C‑suite and engineering teams
• Experience mentoring and…