Sr Principal Architect- HW Performance
JPMorgan Chase · Seattle
You’re a pro who wants to influence the future of technical architecture and our team is looking for people like you.
As a Senior Principal Architect at JPMorganChase within Infrastructure Platforms, you provide specialized expertise to influence the target state architecture and strategy for the firm's on-premises compute ecosystem. Work across teams to implement and advance the adoption of strategic infrastructure solutions that support enterprise-scale compute platforms, architecture governance, and long-term technology modernization. You will partner closely with the Chief Architect to drive systems architecture across multiple technology domains, establish architectural standards, and influence technology direction across the organization.
Job responsibilities
- Advises and leads architecture strategy across multiple technology domains within the firm's on-premises compute stack, including bare-metal provisioning, hypervisor platforms, virtual machine lifecycle management, container orchestration, software-defined networking, and infrastructure APIs.
- Leads reuse-first adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within architecture workflows to accelerate architecture analysis, design evaluation, and strategic decision-making while maintaining appropriate governance and oversight.
- Translates highly complex infrastructure, platform, and security architecture concepts into actionable recommendations for senior technology leadership to influence the firm's target state architecture.
- Drives architectural direction for infrastructure identity, attestation, and zero-trust security models spanning hardware root-of-trust, workload identity, and secure platform services.
- Leads architecture governance activities across a portfolio of critical applications, including design reviews, risk assessment, regulatory alignment, and technology control adherence.
- Authors and maintains architecture decision records, reference architectures, standards, and design patterns that guide engineering teams and ensure consistency across domains.
- Establishes architectural frameworks and infrastructure-as-code standards that serve as reference implementations for engineering teams across the organization.
- Drives cross-organizational alignment with peer architecture groups, enterprise governance bodies, and infrastructure reference architecture teams to influence strategic outcomes without direct authority.
- Leads architecture for sovereign and air-gapped deployment environments, addressing data sovereignty requirements, operational isolation, and regional regulatory obligations.
- Contributes to the evolution of AI infrastructure architecture, including accelerator technologies such as GPUs, DPUs, and IPUs, and their integration within the broader compute platform.
- Establishes portfolio-level guardrails for AI-assisted and agentic workflows used in architecture and engineering governance, including traceability, auditability, and control expectations aligned to resiliency and security standards.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- A. Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 10+ years applied experience
- Extensive experience leading infrastructure or platform architecture initiatives within large-scale technology organizations, including operating at Senior Principal Architect, Distinguished Engineer, or Chief Architect level.
- Deep expertise in on-premises compute infrastructure, including bare-metal provisioning, hypervisor technologies such as VMware, KVM, or Hyper-V, and full virtual machine lifecycle management.
- Practical experience delivering system design, platform engineering, application development, testing, and operational stability across complex infrastructure environments.
- Production experience designing and operating Kubernetes, OpenShift, or similar container platforms, including cluster lifecycle management, multi-tenancy, and workload orchestration at scale.
- Deep understanding of datacenter networking technologies, including software-defined networking, network virtualization, and physical-to-logical network abstraction.
- Expertise in infrastructure identity and security architecture, including hardware attestation, workload identity frameworks, and zero-trust architecture principles.
- Demonstrated experience leading architecture governance forums, conducting design reviews, and translating regulatory and control requirements into architectural standards.
- Demonstrated experience leading safe adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within architecture workflows, including validation practices, governance controls, and sensitive data handling.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience operating in multi-hypervisor or multi-platform environments supporting workloads across multiple virtualization technologies.
- Familiarity with sovereign cloud, air-gapped environments, and architectures designed to meet data sovereignty and regional regulatory requirements.
- Experience with storage architecture, including SAN, NAS, distributed storage, and enterprise resilience engineering practices.
- Knowledge of disaster recovery, datacenter failover strategies, business continuity planning, and fault isolation design principles.
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
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