Senior Principal Architect - Application Platforms
Job Responsibilities
- Advises and leads on architecture strategy of multiple products, applications, and technologies across a portfolio
- Translates highly complex technical issues, trends, and approaches to leadership to drive the firm's innovation and enable leaders to make strategic, well-informed decisions about target state architecture
- Drives adoption and implementation of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies
- Establishes and leads an architecture governance body
- Creates durable, reusable software frameworks that improves velocity and quality of output across teams and functions
- Partner across domains to reduce tooling duplication, clarify ownership, and maintain authoritative technology status and lifecycle governance
- Improve decision traceability, cost-performance outcomes, and review-board effectiveness through clear standards, metrics, and architectural guardrails
- Evaluate emerging capabilities for enterprise fit and adoption readiness
- Lead the reuse-first adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis, option evaluation, and delivery of strategic global solutions, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data
- Establish portfolio-level guardrails for AI-assisted and agentic workflows used in architecture and engineering governance, including traceability/auditability and control expectations aligned to resiliency and security standards
- Champion the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills
- Obtain 10 plus years of applied experience and formal training or certification on Architecture concepts
- Practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Expertise in one or more architecture disciplines
- Demonstrated prior experience influencing across functions and teams to deliver modern architecture
- Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex architecture problems across various technical disciplines
- Extensive practical cloud native experience
- Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best technology solutions and approaches to achieve the future state architecture
- Deep enterprise expertise across Application & Collaboration Platforms Architecture areas including collaboration and communication ecosystems, document/content lifecycle management, multimedia toolchains, secure-by-design governance and compliance, integration/interoperability patterns, reliability and lifecycle operations, portfolio rationalization, financial/TCO decisioning, and executive-level change leadership
- Advanced certifications in cloud, enterprise architecture, ITSM, SRE, or security disciplines (preferred)
- Expertise in operational automation, event intelligence, and self-healing workflows integrated with ticketing and incident processes (preferred)
- Familiarity with financial-services regulatory and control frameworks for operational resilience and auditability (preferred)
About Us
JPMorgan Chase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management. We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
About The Team
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.