Principal Architect

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

As a Principal Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Banking Technology Team, you will provide expertise to enhance and develop architecture platforms utilizing modern cloud-based technologies, while supporting the adoption of strategic global solutions used firm-wide. You will leverage your advanced architecture capabilities and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to promote best-in-class outcomes. In this pivotal role, you will act as a catalyst for fostering a vibrant culture of innovation, spearhead strategic initiatives, and ensure the Global Customer Platform remains resilient, reliable, and aligned with the ever-evolving technology landscape.

Job responsibilities

• Advises cross-functional teams on technology selection and solution architecture to achieve target state and decisions on improvements to current technologies
• Develops multi-year roadmaps aligned with business and architecture strategy and priorities
• Drive efforts to modernize and replace legacy platforms with target aligned components, coordinating across upstream and downstream partners to design, build, deliver, migrate and decommission non-target applications and technology
• Support engineering teams on design, creation and review of code with a focus on security, quality, reliability and scalability
• Serves as a go-to subject matter expert
• Contributes to the development of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies
• Define durable, reusable patterns, components and frameworks that improve velocity, consistency and quality of output across teams and functions
• Champions the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software development concepts and 10+ years applied experience.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, solution architecture, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Expertise in one or more programming language(s)
• Deep knowledge in software, applications, and architecture
• Advanced knowledge of software architecture - particularly micro-services architecture and domain driven design, application development, and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in cloud native technologies 
• Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex architecture problems in one or more technical disciplines
• Ability to document solutions and present and effectively communicate to Senior Leaders and Executives
• Experience designing Microservices with REST APIs and using Swagger to build REST contracts
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL Databases such as Oracle, Cassandra and cloud native databases such as AWS Dynamo, Arora

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

• Experience with platform modernization and migration from legacy applications and infrastructure to cloud native platforms 
• Familiarity with event driven architecture patterns
• Designing for large scale, highly resilient, highly performant enterprise applications
• Strong skills in architecture methods and expertise in modernizing software architecture using Domain Driven Design (DDD), Microservice patterns (SAGA, Choreography, Orchestrator, Strangler etc.) , REST/SOAP APIs, Event Driven Design for private and public cloud
• Experience with Agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and demonstrated ability to interact with all technical and non-technical members of the organization