Principal Architect- Market Surveillance tech

JPMorgan Chase & Co. • Jersey City, NJ

5d • $204,250 - $285,000

About The Position

As a Senior Lead Architect within JPMorganChase’s Corporate Sector (Trade Surveillance), you will help shape target-state architecture and develop high-quality architecture solutions for software applications and platform products. The role drives business impact through expertise across multiple architecture domains and provides technical direction to business and technology teams, contractors, and vendors.

You will guide technology evaluation and adoption, influence product and application design, and contribute secure, high-quality production code. The position also establishes reuse-first, AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across SDLC and toolchain practices, emphasizing traceability, auditability, resiliency, security controls, human validation, and appropriate handling of sensitive data.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification in architecture concepts and at least 5 years of applied experience.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages and deep expertise in software architecture, applications, and technical processes within one or more technical disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience applying enterprise-authorized AI capabilities in architecture and engineering workflows, with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
• Ability to evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into enterprise-grade architectures while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements.
• Ability to solve design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight.
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies and select or recommend solutions for future-state architecture.
• Strong judgment and communication skills to influence technical direction across teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading architecture modernization, platform transformation, or cloud adoption initiatives.
• Strong financial services and enterprise technology experience.
• Experience establishing architecture standards, governance practices, and reusable enterprise patterns.

Responsibilities

• Represent a product family in technical governance bodies and propose improvements to architecture governance practices.
• Provide technical guidance and direction to the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Use enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to accelerate architecture analysis and decision-making, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.
• Guide evaluation of current and new technologies using established standards and frameworks, and influence adoption of leading-edge solutions where appropriate.
• Drive decisions affecting product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.
• Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert and contribute to the engineering community as an advocate for firmwide SDLC frameworks and practices.
• Establish reuse-first, AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across SDLC and toolchain practices, ensuring traceability, auditability, resiliency, and security controls.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package, including base salary based on role, experience, skill set, and location.
• Eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation in cash and/or forfeitable equity.
• Comprehensive health care coverage.
• On-site health and wellness centers.
• Retirement savings plan.
• Backup childcare.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Mental health support.
• Financial coaching.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed