Principal Architect, Executive Director - Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure Platforms
JPMorgan Chase2 months ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Base Salary
$204k - $285k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect standardized, classification-driven hosting models, reference stacks, and reusable patterns.
- Define and govern datacentre hosting patterns across Hyperscale, Regional, In-Country, and Edge environments.
- Drive multi-cloud portability strategies across core platform capabilities and AWS-native alternatives.
- Embed architecture guidance and validation into engineering workflows to improve delivery quality, repeatability, and audit outcomes.
- Design and build architecture governance automation using policy-as-code, controls-as-code, automated guardrails, and validation pipelines.
- Lead technical decision-making and stakeholder collaboration across teams and regions.
- Mentor senior engineers and architects and establish scalable engineering standards and patterns.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification in architecture concepts with advanced applied experience.
- Extensive senior-level hands-on software and systems architecture experience delivering large-scale, mission-critical systems.
- Expertise in hosting and datacentre architecture across public and private cloud environments.
- Experience designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective hosting platforms and embedding architecture validation into engineering workflows.
- Experience with Risk & Trust capabilities including Isolation, Zero Trust, Data Access, Data Residency, and Segmentation.
- Practical proficiency with AI-assisted development and coding tools, including strong validation practices and awareness of data sensitivity.
- Experience applying enterprise-authorized AI capabilities in architecture and engineering workflows.
- Experience with architecture-as-code frameworks such as FINOS CALM or similar.
- Ability to integrate AI-enabled capabilities into scalable platforms while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements.
- Senior technical leadership, mentoring, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
About JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase provides consumer and commercial banking, payments, credit card, wealth management, and corporate and investment banking services to individuals, businesses, institutions, and governments. The public company (NYSE: JPM) earns revenue from interest, fees, trading, and asset management across operations in more than 100 markets. Headquartered in New York City with roots dating to 1799, it serves retail customers and prominent corporate and government clients through brands including Chase and J.P. Morgan.