Sr Principal Infrastructure Architect - Infrastructure Platform

JPMorganChase•Plano, TX

About The Position

As a Senior Principal Architect within JPMorganChase’s Infrastructure Platforms, you provide specialized expertise to influence target-state architecture and strategy. You work across teams to implement and advance adoption of complex strategic global solutions that support the firm’s competitive position. The role shapes the technology foundation of the firm, influences strategic decisions, and has impact across the company and its communities. You lead architecture strategy and governance across a portfolio, design and oversee scalable solutions to cross-domain business problems, and promote reuse of preferred resources, processes, and technology. You also guide safe adoption of enterprise-authorized AI in architecture and engineering workflows, with human validation, appropriate data handling, and controls for traceability, auditability, resiliency, and security. The role requires communicating complex technical matters to leadership and coordinating across Infrastructure Platform and Line of Business teams.

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.
Repeated experience directing large and complex architecture initiatives involving multiple 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.
Experience leading safe adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities across 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 with resiliency and security expectations.
Experience influencing across functions and teams to deliver modern architecture and shaping the long-term evolution of scaled infrastructure; examples include 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 for 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.
Drive adoption and reuse of preferred resources, processes, and technology across domains and portfolios.
Lead reuse-first adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to accelerate architecture analysis, option evaluation, and delivery, incorporating human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.
Translate complex technical issues, trends, and approaches for leadership to support innovation and 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, creating durable and 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 control expectations aligned with resiliency and security standards.