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**Senior Principal Architect - Jersey City, NJ** - Shape infrastructure strategy for global financial leader, JPMorganChase - Influence target state architecture, drive strategic decisions, and translate complex technical issues - 10+ years' experience, 5+ in Senior/Principal roles, proven cloud-native expertise (AWS, GCP) - Cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect - Professional, GCP Professional Cloud Architect) - Govern architecture, drive AI adoption, establish reusable software frameworks.

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Country: United States

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Location: Jersey City, NJ, United States

Join JPMorganChase and bring your architectural vision to life on a global stage, where your expertise will directly shape the technology foundation that powers one of the world's most influential financial institutions. Here, you'll have the opportunity to influence target state architecture, drive strategic decisions, and leave a lasting impact across the firm and the communities we serve.

As a Senior Principal Architect at JPMorganChase within Enterprise Technology (Infrastructure Platforms), you provide specialized expertise to influence the target state architecture and strategy. You work across teams to implement and advance the adoption of complex strategic global solutions that give JPMorganChase a competitive advantage.

Job responsibilities

Advise and lead on strategy and development of multiple products, applications, and technologies across a portfolio

Design, govern, and oversee the implementation of robust, scalable, and efficient architectural solutions for cross-domain business problems, driving adoption and reuse of preferred resources, processes, and technology across domains and portfolios

Lead reuse-first adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis, option evaluation, and delivery of strategic global solutions, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data

Translate 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

Act as a liaison between Infrastructure Platform and Line of Business teams to ensure alignment and understanding

Drive adoption and implementation of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies, creating durable, reusable software frameworks that improve velocity and quality of output across teams and functions

Establish and lead an architecture governance body

Communicate effectively to group leadership, management, and teams throughout the company

Establish 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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Formal training and multiple professional-level certifications in AWS (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional) and Google Cloud (e.g., GCP Professional Cloud Architect)

10+ years of applied experience with at least 5 years in a Senior, Lead, or Principal Architect role, repeatedly directing significantly large and complex architecture initiatives, developing capabilities that typically involve different stakeholders, multiple products and geographies, many solution varieties, highly regulated environments, and business transformations at mass scale

Practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

Expertise in one or more programming languages, applications, and architecture disciplines

Demonstrated experience leading safe adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment across architecture workflows, including validation practices and awareness of data sensitivity

Ability to evaluate and govern AI-enabled architectural patterns (including agentic workflows) with clear control boundaries, auditability, and human approval checkpoints aligned to resiliency and security expectations

Demonstrated prior experience influencing across functions and teams to deliver modern architecture

Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex architecture problems across various technical disciplines

Extensive practical cloud-native experience

Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best technology solutions and approaches to achieve the future state architecture

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Banking and financial services experience or relevant technology domain experience

Experience with governance, risk, regulatory, and compliance frameworks

Skills and knowledge spanning multiple architecture domains (e.g., Business Architecture, Application/Solution Architecture, Technical/Infrastructure Architecture, and Information/Data Architecture)

Deep hands-on expertise across hybrid multi-cloud environments: on-premise, AWS, and/or GCP/Azure

Working fluency in the AWS Well-Architected Framework and its application to safety- and payment-adjacent workloads

Proven leadership ability to inspire teams toward common goals

Shape the future of global infrastructure lead architecture strategy and drive innovation at enterprise scale.

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Location: Jersey City, NJ, United States

Job responsibilities

Advise and lead on strategy and development of multiple products, applications, and technologies across a portfolio

Act as a liaison between Infrastructure Platform and Line of Business teams to ensure alignment and understanding

Establish and lead an architecture governance body

Communicate effectively to group leadership, management, and teams throughout the company

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Formal training and multiple professional-level certifications in AWS (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional) and Google Cloud (e.g., GCP Professional Cloud Architect)

Practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

Expertise in one or more programming languages, applications, and architecture disciplines

Demonstrated prior experience influencing across functions and teams to deliver modern architecture

Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex architecture problems across various technical disciplines

Extensive practical cloud-native experience

Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best technology solutions and approaches to achieve the future state architecture

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Banking and financial services experience or relevant technology domain experience

Experience with governance, risk, regulatory, and compliance frameworks

Skills and knowledge spanning multiple architecture domains (e.g., Business Architecture, Application/Solution Architecture, Technical/Infrastructure Architecture, and Information/Data Architecture)

Deep hands-on expertise across hybrid multi-cloud environments: on-premise, AWS, and/or GCP/Azure

Working fluency in the AWS Well-Architected Framework and its application to safety- and payment-adjacent workloads

Proven leadership ability to inspire teams toward common goals

Shape the future of global infrastructure lead architecture strategy and drive innovation at enterprise scale.

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