Senior Principal Architect - Corporate Technology

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Job Description

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 JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Technology division, you provide specialized expertise to influence the target state architecture and strategy. Work across teams to implement and advance the adoption of complex strategic global solutions that give JPMorgan Chase a competitive advantage.

Your role will be pivotal in shaping the future architecture and strategy of the company. You will collaborate with various teams to promote and implement intricate strategic global solutions that provide JPMorgan Chase with a competitive edge.

As part of the Engineering and Architecture team in Corporate Technology, you will be working to enhance the ways of working across all of the Engineers and Architects in Corporate Technology; helping application development teams build the right systems in the right way.

This is a Senior Director level role.

Job responsibilities

• Analyses and evaluates the use of technology across the Corporate Technology organisation
• Researches industry trends and innovations to feed into strategy roadmaps
• Leads and champions the development of architectural standards across Corporate Technology
• Collaborates with Engineers & Architects across Corporate Technology to compile codified blueprints and patterns
• Influences Engineers and Architects to develop systems using recommended approaches
• Listens to the Engineering & Architecture community, as well as senior stakeholders, to take feedback on strategy decisions
• 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
• Champions the firm's culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and expert applied experience
• Experience in compiling Architectural patterns for complex systems
• Demonstrated experience leading global forums with senior members and stakeholders
• Experience designing architecture for both on premises and Public Cloud systems
• Experience implementing Resiliency requirements for large scale systems
• Knowledge of Identity & Access Management and system security
• Practical experience implementing Risk, Controls and Regulatory requirements
• Deep expertise in one or more technical domains
• Practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• 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

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal certification in Architecture
• Formal certification in several Public Cloud domains
• Experience running large scale transformation programmes
• Experience authoring reference architecture patterns for adoption across global organisations
• Experience implementing large scale technology migration strategies
• Experience of implementing large scale Resiliency programmes

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

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.