Principal Architect, Executive Director - Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure Platforms

You will shape the future of hosting and cloud architecture on a global scale. You'll drive impactful solutions, influence technical direction, and collaborate with diverse teams across multiple regions. We value your expertise and hands-on approach, empowering you to lead with vision and deliver results. Your work will directly support regulated-market delivery and architecture governance at scale-offering career growth, technical leadership, and the opportunity to make a lasting impact.

Job Summary:
As a Principal Architect at JPMorganChase within the Infrastructure Platforms organization, you will own the end-to-end architecture for standardized hosting across Public and Private Cloud. You will define and govern classification-driven hosting models, reference stacks, and reusable patterns, ensuring robust security and risk controls.

• Architect standardized, classification-driven hosting models, reference stacks, and reusable patterns.
• Define and govern datacentre hosting patterns including Hyperscale, Regional, In-Country, and Edge, and enforce default, classification-specific security controls and Risk & Trust capabilities.
• Drive multi-cloud portability strategy 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 tools (e.g., policy-as-code / controls-as-code approaches, automated guardrails, and validation pipelines).
• Lead and influence across teams and regions through strong stakeholder management, clear communication, and technical decision-making.
• Mentor and develop senior engineers and architects, establishing strong engineering standards and scalable patterns.

• Formal training or certification in architecture concepts with advanced applied experience.
• Extensive hands-on software and systems architecture experience at a senior level, with a track record of delivering large-scale, mission-critical systems.
• Expertise in hosting and datacentre architecture across Public and Private Cloud.
• Proven ability to design scalable, secure, and cost-effective hosting platforms, and to embed architecture guidance and validation into engineering workflows.
• Experience with horizontal Risk & Trust capabilities including Isolation, Zero Trust, Data Access, Data Residency, and Segmentation.
• Practical proficiency with AI-assisted development and coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity; demonstrated 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 evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into scalable platforms while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements.
• Senior technical leadership and team mentoring skills coupled with excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.