Sr Principal Data Architect

JPMorgan Chase & Co. • Plano, TX

22h • $204,250 - $325,000

About The Position

As a Senior Principal Data Architect within JPMorganChase’s IAM - Data Services Organization, you provide specialized expertise to influence target-state architecture and strategy. You work across teams to implement and advance adoption of complex, strategic, global data architecture solutions that give JPMorganChase a competitive advantage. The role helps advance technology strategy on a global scale.

You advise on data architecture strategy across a portfolio and lead adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities in architecture workflows. You help translate complex technical topics for leadership, drive firmwide adoption of data architecture specifications, establish governance, and create reusable frameworks. You also set guardrails for AI-assisted and agentic workflows, emphasizing traceability, auditability, human validation, data sensitivity, resiliency, and security.

Requirements

• Practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability, including extensive practical cloud-native experience.
• Proven track record setting data modeling standards and influencing multiple teams or products.
• Deep expertise in graph data modeling, including entity/relationship design, identity resolution patterns, temporal modeling, and constraint design.
• Demonstrated experience leading safe adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities in data architecture workflows, including validation practices and awareness of data sensitivity.
• Ability to evaluate and govern AI-enabled data architecture patterns, including agentic workflows, with clear control boundaries, auditability, and human approval checkpoints aligned with resiliency and security expectations.
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies and recommend data architecture solutions or approaches to achieve the future-state architecture.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience with graph technologies and query languages and/or ontology frameworks.
• Experience with metadata management, data governance, MDM, and lineage/provenance implementations.
• Familiarity with AI/ML enablement via graphs, including feature generation, embeddings, and relationship-aware retrieval, with strong grounding in data controls.

Responsibilities

• Advise and lead data architecture strategy and development across multiple products, applications, and technologies in a portfolio.
• Lead reuse-first adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to accelerate data architecture analysis, portfolio-level 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 for leadership to support innovation and strategic target-state architecture decisions.
• Drive firmwide adoption and implementation of data architecture specifications in technology solutions, and establish and lead a data architecture governance body.
• Create durable, reusable data frameworks using new technology to meet business needs.
• Establish portfolio-level guardrails for AI-assisted and agentic workflows in data architecture governance and delivery, including traceability, auditability, and control expectations aligned with resiliency and security standards.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package, including base salary determined by role, experience, skill set, and location.
• Eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation in the form of 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: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed