Principal Architect - Employee Platforms - Executive Director

Step into the role of a Principal Architect (Executive Director) at JPMorganChase and become a driving force behind the development and adoption of cutting-edge, cloud-based technologies.

As a Principal Architect at JPMorganChase within the Employee Platforms - Workforce Technology and Employee Experience organization, you provide expertise to enhance and develop architecture platforms based on modern cloud-based technologies, as well as support the adoption of strategic global solutions. Leverage your advanced architecture capabilities and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes.

Job responsibilities
- Advises cross-functional teams on technology selection to achieve target state architecture and decisions on improvements to current technologies
- Applies enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis, roadmap development, and design decisioning, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.
- Develops multi-year roadmaps aligned with business and architecture strategy and priorities
- Represents the LOB at Firmwide technical forums related to well-architected best practices
- Develops secure and high-quality well-architected production applications, and reviews issues from feedback loops for continuous improvement
- Guides evaluation of current and new technologies using existing standards and frameworks, influencing peers and decision-makers to adopt leading-edge solutions where appropriate
- Serves as the function’s go-to subject matter expert and contributes to the development of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest architecture methodologies
- 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
- Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and advanced applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Expertise in one or more programming language(s)
- Deep knowledge of software, applications, and architecture, including advanced software architecture, application development, and technical processes within one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- Demonstrated experience applying enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment in architecture and engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
- Ability to evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into scalable platforms while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements.
- Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex architecture problems in one or more technical disciplines
- Experience leading a product as a product owner or product manager
- Ability to present and effectively communicate to senior leaders and executives

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Industry certification in a platform technology (Cloud, Network, OS, Database etc)
- Small team management