Sr Principal Infrastructure Architect - Infrastructure Platform

JPMorgan Chase & Co. • Plano, TX

2h

About The Position

As a Senior Principal Architect within JPMorganChase Infrastructure Platforms, you will provide specialized expertise to influence target-state architecture and strategy. You will work across teams to implement and advance complex strategic global solutions that support the firm’s competitive position. The role offers the opportunity to shape the technology foundation of a global financial institution, influence strategic decisions, and affect technology outcomes across the firm.

You will advise on strategy and development across a portfolio of products, applications, and technologies; design and govern scalable architectural solutions for cross-domain business problems; and promote reuse of preferred resources, processes, and technology. The role includes guiding responsible adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities in architecture and engineering workflows, with human validation, sensitive-data handling, traceability, auditability, and control expectations aligned with resiliency and security standards. You will translate complex technical issues for leadership, serve as a liaison between Infrastructure Platform and Line of Business teams, lead architecture governance, and advance reusable methods and frameworks across teams.

JPMorganChase is a financial institution serving consumers, businesses, and corporate, institutional, and government clients. The company describes its total rewards package as including base salary based on role, experience, skill set, and location, with commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation available in eligible roles. Benefits and programs are subject to eligibility.

Requirements

• Formal training and multiple professional-level certifications in AWS and Google Cloud, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional and GCP Professional Cloud Architect.
• 10+ years of applied experience, including at least 5 years in a Senior, Lead, or Principal Architect role directing large and complex architecture initiatives across stakeholders, products, geographies, solution varieties, regulated environments, and large-scale business transformations.
• 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 in architecture workflows, including validation practices and awareness of data sensitivity.
• Ability to evaluate and govern AI-enabled architectural patterns, including agentic workflows, with control boundaries, auditability, and human approval checkpoints aligned to resiliency and security expectations.
• Demonstrated experience influencing across functions and teams to deliver modern architecture and shape the long-term evolution of significantly scaled infrastructure, such as environments with 1,000+ processing nodes or high-volume trade processing.
• Experience applying expertise and new methods to solve complex architecture problems across technical disciplines.
• Extensive practical cloud-native experience.
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies and recommend solutions and approaches to achieve future-state architecture.

Nice To Haves

• Banking and financial services experience or relevant technology-domain experience.
• Experience with governance, risk, regulatory, and compliance frameworks.
• Knowledge spanning multiple architecture domains, such as Business Architecture, Application/Solution Architecture, Technical/Infrastructure Architecture, and Information/Data Architecture.
• Deep hands-on expertise across hybrid multi-cloud environments, including on-premises, 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.

Responsibilities

• Advise and lead strategy and development for multiple products, applications, and technologies across a portfolio.
• Design, govern, and oversee implementation of robust, scalable, and efficient architectural solutions for cross-domain business problems, driving adoption and reuse across domains and portfolios.
• Lead reuse-first adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities for architecture analysis, option evaluation, and delivery, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.
• Translate complex technical issues, trends, and approaches for leadership to support strategic 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 and create durable, reusable software frameworks that improve delivery velocity and quality.
• Establish and lead an architecture governance body.
• Communicate effectively with group leadership, management, and teams throughout the company.
• Establish portfolio-level guardrails for AI-assisted and agentic workflows in architecture and engineering governance, including traceability, auditability, and controls aligned to resiliency and security standards.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health care coverage
• On-site health and wellness centers
• Retirement savings plan
• Backup childcare
• Tuition reimbursement
• Mental health support
• Financial coaching
• Eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation in cash and/or forfeitable equity

What This Job Offers

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