Sr Principal Architect- HW

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As a Senior Principal Architect at JPMorgan

Chase within Infrastructure Platforms, you provide specialized expertise to influence the target state architecture and strategy for the firm's on-premises compute ecosystem. Work across teams to implement and advance the adoption of strategic infrastructure solutions that support enterprise-scale compute platforms, architecture governance, and long-term technology modernization. You will partner closely with the Chief Architect to drive systems architecture across multiple technology domains, establish architectural standards, and influence technology direction across the organization.

• Advises and leads architecture strategy across multiple technology domains within the firm's on-premises compute stack, including bare-metal provisioning, hypervisor platforms, virtual machine lifecycle management, container orchestration, software-defined networking, and infrastructure APIs.
• Leads reuse-first adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within architecture workflows to accelerate architecture analysis, design evaluation, and strategic decision-making while maintaining appropriate governance and oversight.
• Translates highly complex infrastructure, platform, and security architecture concepts into actionable recommendations for senior technology leadership to influence the firm's target state architecture.
• Drives architectural direction for infrastructure identity, attestation, and zero-trust security models spanning hardware root-of-trust, workload identity, and secure platform services.
• Leads architecture governance activities across a portfolio of critical applications, including design reviews, risk assessment, regulatory alignment, and technology control adherence.
• Authors and maintains architecture decision records, reference architectures, standards, and design patterns that guide engineering teams and ensure consistency across domains.
• Establishes architectural frameworks and infrastructure-as-code standards that serve as reference implementations for engineering teams across the organization.
• Drives cross-organizational alignment with peer architecture groups, enterprise governance bodies, and infrastructure reference architecture teams to influence strategic outcomes without direct authority.
• Leads architecture for sovereign and air-gapped deployment environments, addressing data sovereignty requirements, operational isolation, and regional regulatory obligations.
• Contributes to the evolution of AI infrastructure architecture, including accelerator technologies such as GPUs, DPUs, and IPUs, and their integration within the broader compute platform.
• 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.

• A. Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 10+ years applied experience
• Extensive experience leading infrastructure or platform architecture initiatives within large-scale technology organizations, including operating at Senior Principal Architect, Distinguished Engineer, or Chief Architect level.
• Deep expertise in on-premises compute infrastructure, including bare-metal provisioning, hypervisor technologies such as VMware, KVM, or Hyper-V, and full virtual machine lifecycle management.
• Practical experience delivering system design, platform engineering, application development, testing, and operational stability across complex infrastructure environments.
• Production experience designing and operating Kubernetes, Open Shift, or similar container platforms, including cluster lifecycle management, multi-tenancy, and workload orchestration at scale.
• Deep understanding of datacenter networking technologies, including software-defined networking, network virtualization, and physical-to-logical network abstraction.
• Expertise in infrastructure identity and security architecture, including hardware attestation, workload identity frameworks, and zero-trust architecture principles.
• Demonstrated experience leading architecture governance forums, conducting design reviews, and translating regulatory and control requirements into architectural standards.
• Demonstrated experience leading safe adoption of…