Sr Principal Architect

Join Chief Data and Analytics Organization to architect and evolve firm wide Data Mesh, AI/ML and GenAI, and Data Governance platform.

As a Senior Principal Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Enterprise Technology function, you provide expertise to enhance and develop architecture platforms based on modern cloud-based technologies, as well as support the adoption of strategic global solutions. Leverage your advanced architecture capabilities and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes.

The Data Management group is part of the Chief Analytics and Data Office at JPMorgan Chase. It operates firm wide, liaising with every line of business to deliver innovative data management products, services and value add solutions. Our vision is to continuously evolve using best-in-class tools and technologies in managing vast amounts of data to enable AI/ML initiatives throughout the firm and enhance our ability to provide market leading capabilities. Our philosophy is to function in a product operating model to iteratively discover, design, develop and deliver great outcomes to our customers quickly and securely.

Our team delivers comprehensive data management solutions for making JPMC’s data discoverable, understandable, observable, trustworthy, accessible, and interoperable for authorized personas to drive BI and AI/ML initiatives with agility and velocity. It includes center of excellences for multiple product domains, such as Data Lake Services, Data Migrations Services, Unified Data Catalog and Controls, Entitlements Services and Data Analytics & Business Intelligence services, to drive digital transformation, cloud adoption and AI/ML capabilities throughout the firm.

Job Responsibilities

• Advises cross-functional teams on technology selection to achieve target state architecture and decisions on improvements to current technologies
• Develops multi-year roadmaps aligned with business and architecture strategy and priorities
• Creates complex and scalable coding frameworks using appropriate software design
• Collaborate with product owners, engineers, clients, and vendors to establish and maintain platform objectives and target state architecture
• Create and evolve strategic architecture that enable our clients to achieve business objective (requires experience with C4, DDD, data modeling, and knowledge of SDLC practices)
• Focus on integrated “user experience” to enforce system thinking approach as part of the platform delivery
• Organize and manage solutions libraries that focus on end-to-end data lifecycle experience form data origination, data management, data governance, and data consumption
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Serves as the function’s go-to subject matter expert
• Contributes to the development of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies
• Creates durable, reusable software frameworks that improves velocity and quality of output across teams and functions

• Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required Qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 10+ years applied experience.
• Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex architecture problems in one or more technical disciplines
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Expertise in one or more programming language of Python or Java
• Expert level experience with AWS or other Public Cloud providers
• Expert level with Databricks, Snowflake, Starburst, Trino, AWS Data, AWS Analytics, and AWS AI/ML
• Hands on experience delivering BI and AI/ML solutions for business stakeholders and data scientists
• Influencer with a proven record of successfully driving change and transforming across organizational boundaries
• Ability to present and effectively communicate to Senior Leaders and Executives