Senior Principal Architect — IaaS & Compute Platforms

Step into the role of a Senior Principal Architect at JPMorganChase and become a driving force behind the development and adoption of cutting-edge cloud-based technologies.

As a Senior Principal Architect at JPMorganChase within the Core Infrastructure Platforms Architecture team you will provide expertise to design enhance and evolve the firms IaaS and compute platform architectures. You will own the technical vision for datacenter provisioning from bare metal through hypervisors to virtual machines ensuring scalable secure and operationally excellent infrastructure that powers the firms most critical workloads. Leverage your deep understanding of the compute stack and collaborate with platform engineering cloud and application teams to drive best-in-class outcomes. This is a senior individual contributor role focused on architecting modern compute platforms in a large regulated financial environment. You will define platform capabilities integration patterns and automation frameworks that enable efficient workload deployment while meeting stringent regulatory and operational requirements.

Job responsibilities

• Defines and owns the architecture for IaaS and compute platforms spanning bare metal provisioning hypervisor technologies and virtual machine lifecycle management; establish patterns for platform integration and automation.
• Architects datacenter compute provisioning flows from hardware through virtualization layers; design frameworks for resource management orchestration and platform operations.
• Designs and evolves hypervisor platform architectures across multiple technologies; define standards for cluster design high availability resource allocation and operational management.
• Architects platform integration with supporting infrastructure including storage networking identity services and monitoring systems.
• Embeds compliance and controls into platform designs; ensure regulatory requirements for infrastructure provisioning change management and access controls are met; align with firm policies and regulations.
• Partners with engineering teams to drive automation and infrastructure-as-code; define configuration models policy enforcement and deployment workflows.
• Develops reference architectures design patterns and platform blueprints that enable efficient and secure consumption of compute infrastructure.
• Conducts architecture and design reviews; document decisions risks and exceptions; present in governance forums and lead technical discussions.
• Drives platform observability and capacity planning; define approaches for resource utilization performance monitoring and cost optimization.
• Promotes effective ways of working and team productivity; support backlog management and delivery tracking.
• Mentors engineers and architects; foster a collaborative outcome-focused culture.

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on software infrastructure architecture concepts and expert applied experience.
• Extensive experience architecting and delivering IaaS and compute platforms in large complex regulated financial services or enterprise environments.
• Deep expertise in hypervisor technologies and virtualization platforms including architecture design deployment and operational management of production environments.
• Strong understanding of the full datacenter compute stack from bare metal provisioning (hardware firmware BMC/IPMI imaging PXE/network boot) through hypervisor layers to virtual machine lifecycle management.
• Hands-on experience with compute platform integration: storage architectures (SAN NAS distributed storage) network virtualization (VLANs SDN vSwitches) and infrastructure management tooling.
• Professional experience with infrastructure automation and orchestration: infrastructure-as-code frameworks configuration management tools CI/CD pipelines and declarative platform models.
• Demonstrated ability to embed regulatory risk and control requirements into infrastructure architecture and provide audit-ready evidence change traceability and compliance reporting.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management; able to collaborate deeply with engineering teams vendors and business partners to deliver pragmatic scalable solutions.

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Experience with Windows Server and Hyper-V architecture including failover clustering Hyper-V Replica Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) and integration with Active Directory and enterprise management systems.
• Familiarity with multiple hypervisor platforms (VMware vSphere/ESXi KVM Hyper-V) and ability to architect hybrid or multi-hypervisor environments.
• Background in cloud IaaS platforms (AWS EC2 Azure VMs Google Compute Engine) and patterns for hybrid cloud or on-premises/cloud integration.
• Experience with container platforms and how they integrate with underlying IaaS/compute infrastructure (e.g. Kubernetes on VMs container-optimized hypervisors).
• Knowledge of infrastructure security and hardening: secure boot TPM/attestation firmware security host-based controls and privileged access management for infrastructure.
• Experience with capacity planning performance tuning and cost optimization across large compute estates.
• Track record improving team productivity via agile ways of working backlog management and delivery metrics.