Sr Principal Architect- HW Performance

You're a pro who wants to influence the future of technical architecture and our team is looking for people like you.

As a Senior Principal Architect at JPMorganChase within Infrastructure Platforms, you provide specialized expertise to influence the target state architecture and strategy for the firm's on-premises compute ecosystem.

Work across teams to implement and advance the adoption of strategic infrastructure solutions that support enterprise-scale compute platforms, architecture governance, and long-term technology modernization.

You will partner closely with the Chief Architect to drive systems architecture across multiple technology domains, establish architectural standards, and influence technology direction across the organization.

Job responsibilities


* Advises and leads architecture strategy across multiple technology domains within the firm's on-premises compute stack, including bare-metal provisioning, hypervisor platforms, virtual machine lifecycle management, container orchestration, software-defined networking, and infrastructure APIs.


* Leads reuse-first adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within architecture workflows to accelerate architecture analysis, design evaluation, and strategic decision-making while maintaining appropriate governance and oversight.


* Translates highly complex infrastructure, platform, and security architecture concepts into actionable recommendations for senior technology leadership to influence the firm's target state architecture.


* Drives architectural direction for infrastructure identity, attestation, and zero-trust security models spanning hardware root-of-trust, workload identity, and secure platform services.


* Leads architecture governance activities across a portfolio of critical applications, including design reviews, risk assessment, regulatory alignment, and technology control adherence.


* Authors and maintains architecture decision records, reference architectures, standards, and design patterns that guide engineering teams and ensure consistency across domains.


* Establishes architectural frameworks and infrastructure-as-code standards that serve as reference implementations for engineering teams across the organization.


* Drives cross-organizational alignment with peer architecture groups, enterprise governance bodies, and infrastructure reference architecture teams to influence strategic outcomes without direct authority.


* Leads architecture for sovereign and air-gapped deployment environments, addressing data sovereignty requirements, operational isolation, and regional regulatory obligations.


* Contributes to the evolution of AI infrastructure architecture, including accelerator technologies such as GPUs, DPUs, and IPUs, and their integration within the broader compute platform.


* Establishes portfolio-level guardrails for AI-assisted and agentic workflows used in architecture and engineering governance, in...