Principal Architect, Executive Director: Solution Architecture

Step into the role of a Principal Architect at JPMorganChase and become a driving force behind the development and adoption of cutting-edge, cloud-based technologies.

As a Principal Architect at JPMorganChase within the Corporate Technology team, you are an integral part of a team that works to develop and assist the development of high-quality architecture strategy and solutions for various software applications and platform products.

You drive significant business impact and help shape the target state architecture through your capabilities across multiple architecture domains.

Y ou will serve as a strategic technology leader, defining and governing end-to-end solution architectures for critical platforms and transformation programs.

You will partner closely with CTOs, Chief Architects, and senior engineering leaders to deliver business and technology strategy.

Your role blends deep architectural expertise with executive presence, enabling you to influence both business and technology senior stakeholders and provide hands-on guidance to engineering teams as needed.

You will help accelerate delivery, embed security and resiliency, and foster a high-performing architecture community.

Job responsibilities


* Translates business strategy into pragmatic solution roadmaps and reference architectures


* Drives architecture decisions balancing resilience, scalability, latency, cost, risk, and time-to-market


* Sets and enforces design principles, patterns, and guardrails across portfolios


* Chairs or contributes to Architecture Review Boards, ensuring compliance with enterprise standards and regulatory obligations


* Builds trusted advisor relationships with CTOs, Chief Architects, and senior leaders to co-create technology strategy and execution plans


* Facilitates outcome-focused dialogue between business, product, and technology leaders to align trade-offs and secure buy-in


* Guides programs from concept to production, shaping epics and non-functional requirements, and ensuring traceability to business outcomes


* Provides hands-on oversight and coaching to domain architects and engineering leads, intervening in complex design issues as needed


* Owns target and transitional architectures for complex, multi-region systems across customer, risk, finance, data, and payments domains


* Mentor and develop high-performing architects, fostering a community of practice and promoting reusability through reference implementations

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills


* Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience


* Proven track record leading architecture for large, distributed, mission-critical systems with 24x7 operations and high resiliency targets


* Deep expertise in architecture patterns: microservices, event-driven and streaming architectures, API-led connectivity, data mesh/lakehouse, CQRS, and domain-driven design


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