Advisory and Solution Architecture Executive Director

As a Principal Architect at JPMorganChase within the Corporate Technology team you are an integral part of a team that works to develop and assist the development of high-quality architecture strategy and solutions for various software applications and platform products. You drive significant business impact and help shape the target state architecture through your capabilities across multiple architecture domains.

You will serve as a strategic technology leader defining and governing end-to-end solution architectures for critical platforms and transformation programs. You will partner closely with CTOs Chief Architects and senior engineering leaders to deliver business and technology strategy. Your role blends deep architectural expertise with executive presence enabling you to influence both business and technology senior stakeholders and provide hands-on guidance to engineering teams as needed. You will help accelerate delivery embed security and resiliency and foster a high-performing architecture community.

Job responsibilities

• Translates business strategy into pragmatic solution roadmaps and reference architectures
• Drives architecture decisions balancing resilience scalability latency cost risk and time-to-market
• Sets and enforces design principles patterns and guardrails across portfolios
• Chairs or contributes to Architecture Review Boards ensuring compliance with enterprise standards and regulatory obligations
• Builds trusted advisor relationships with CTOs Chief Architects and senior leaders to co-create technology strategy and execution plans
• Facilitates outcome-focused dialogue between business product and technology leaders to align trade-offs and secure buy-in
• Guides programs from concept to production shaping epics and non-functional requirements and ensuring traceability to business outcomes
• Provides hands-on oversight and coaching to domain architects and engineering leads intervening in complex design issues as needed
• Owns target and transitional architectures for complex multi-region systems across customer risk finance data and payments domains
• Mentors and develops high-performing architects fostering a community of practice and promoting reusability through reference implementations

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Formal experience training or certification on software engineering concepts and proven experience
• Significant experience of influencing senior technology leaders at scale in complex regulated environments (preferably global financial services)
• Proven track record leading architecture for large distributed mission-critical systems with 24x7 operations and high resiliency targets
• Deep expertise in architecture patterns: microservices event-driven and streaming architectures API-led connectivity data mesh/lakehouse CQRS and domain-driven design
• Experience with hyperscale cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) container orchestration (Kubernetes) service mesh CI/CD IaC observability and platform engineering
• Strong knowledge of real-time streaming (Kafka/Pulsar) batch analytics MLOps model governance and responsible AI patterns
• Security and resiliency expertise: zero trust secrets management identity encryption chaos engineering disaster recovery and site reliability practices
• Integration and legacy modernization: messaging APIs eventing SOA-to-microservices transitions mainframe integration and strangler-fig approaches
• Executive presence with ability to simplify complexity and influence outcomes across senior stakeholders in both the business and technology
• Strong vendor management and build/buy/partner decisioning; experience shaping multi-year investment portfolios
• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Relevant certifications (e.g. AWS/Azure/GCP Architect TOGAF CISSP SAFe)
• Experience in global financial services and regulated environments
• Hands-on pragmatism; able to review designs and code-level artifacts while maintaining a strategic lens
• Experience with platform engineering green software and confidential computing
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills across C-suite and engineering teams
• Experience mentoring and developing architecture talent
• Familiarity with compliance regimes (e.g. EBA PRA OCC MAS) and architecture support for regulatory requirements