Principal Architect: Digital Experience
About The Position
As a Principal Architect at JPMorganChase within Corporate Sector (Compliance Digital Experience), you are an integral part of a team delivering architecture solutions across software applications and platforms. The role shapes target-state architecture, guides technology strategy, and improves engineering practices across the product area. You will partner with product, engineering, and other stakeholders to develop high-quality solutions that strengthen customer and employee experiences while ensuring security, scalability, resiliency, and alignment with enterprise standards. The Principal Architect represents the product area in architecture governance, provides technical direction to teams, evaluates technologies, and influences product and operational decisions. The role also advances AI-enabled, reuse-first engineering practices across the software development life cycle and toolchain, with appropriate validation, traceability, resiliency, and security controls.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification in architecture concepts and 10+ years of applied experience.
- Hands-on 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 in one or more domains, such as cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or mobile.
- Demonstrated experience applying approved AI capabilities within architecture and engineering workflows, with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
- Ability to integrate AI-enabled capabilities into enterprise-grade architectures while meeting resiliency, security, and audit requirements.
- Ability to solve design and functionality challenges independently with minimal oversight.
- Strong judgment and communication skills to influence technical direction across teams and stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- Experience leading architecture modernization, platform transformation, or cloud adoption initiatives.
- Financial services and large-scale enterprise technology experience.
- Experience establishing architecture standards, governance practices, and reusable enterprise patterns.
Responsibilities
- Represent a product area in architecture governance forums and recommend improvements to standards and decision-making practices.
- Provide technical guidance and direction to technology teams and partners to accelerate delivery and strengthen solution quality.
- Apply approved AI capabilities to speed architecture analysis and decision-making, using human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.
- Evaluate current and emerging technologies against enterprise standards and frameworks and influence adoption of fit-for-purpose solutions.
- Drive architecture decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and operational processes.
- Design and review secure, high-quality code and implementation approaches; support troubleshooting and quality improvements across teams.
- Contribute as a subject matter expert to engineering communities through thought leadership and modern architecture practices.
- Establish reuse-first, AI-enabled engineering patterns across the SDLC and toolchain, ensuring traceability, resiliency, and security controls.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package, including base salary; 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
No Education Listed
