Principal Architect, Executive Director: Business Banking Digital

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · OH · Consumer & Community Banking

Principal Architect, Executive Director for Business Banking Digital Channels at JPMorgan Chase. This role focuses on defining and driving the target architecture for cloud-based digital products, translating business needs into secure, scalable technology solutions, and establishing architectural guardrails. The position involves leading technical decision-making, guiding engineering teams, evaluating emerging technologies (including agent-based systems), and communicating strategy to senior leaders. While the role evaluates agent-based technologies, its core function is in architecting and delivering digital products, not directly building AI models or systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Architect cloud-native, scalable application platforms and reference architectures that improve time-to-market, reliability, and customer experience.
  2. Translate business and product strategy into end-to-end technical designs, including integration patterns, data flows, and non-functional requirements.
  3. Establish and enforce architectural guardrails for security, resiliency, performance, and maintainability across the product landscape.
  4. Lead technical decision-making across teams by facilitating design reviews, trade-off discussions, and architecture governance participation.
  5. Evaluate emerging technologies (including agent-based and autonomous workflow technologies) and recommend adoption paths aligned to product goals.

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 10+ years of applied experience, including hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for large-scale platforms.
  • Required experience supporting digital channels, including designing architectures for high-availability, customer-facing applications.
  • Advanced knowledge of software architecture and modern engineering practices, with deep expertise in at least one technical domain (for example, cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or mobile).
  • Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages with the ability to guide implementation decisions and code quality standards.
  • Demonstrated ability to solve complex architecture problems through structured analysis, pragmatic trade-offs, and clear technical direction.
  • Practical experience designing and operating cloud-native solutions (including containerization, service-based architectures, and automated delivery practices).
  • Experience driving outcomes as a product leader (for example, Product Owner or Product Manager) or partnering deeply with product management to define and deliver roadmaps.
  • Proven ability to present technical strategy and influence decisions with senior leaders and executives.
  • Demonstrable experience applying agent-based and autonomous workflow technologies to improve engineering productivity, reliability, or customer outcomes.

Nice to have

  • Experience in business banking products, workflows, or customer journeys.
  • Familiarity with large-scale digital ecosystems and multi-product integration patterns across customer-facing platforms.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills

What the JD emphasized

  • Required experience supporting digital channels, including designing architectures for high-availability, customer-facing applications.
  • Demonstrable experience applying agent-based and autonomous workflow technologies to improve engineering productivity, reliability, or customer outcomes.