About This Role

If you are excited about shaping the future of technology and driving

significant business impact in financial services, we are looking for people

just like you. Join our team and help us develop game-changing, high-quality

solutions.

As a Principal Architect at JPMorganChase within our Core Infrastructure

Platforms Architecture team, you will work across the hypervisor, operating

system, and physical datacenter layers that underpin the firm's private cloud

platform. This senior individual contributor role provides architectural

leadership across the entire stack, identifying gaps between domains and driving

solutions where ownership, alignment, or direction is unclear. You will add

senior architectural capacity to the firm's private cloud platform programs,

providing the end-to-end perspective needed to guide decisions across the full

infrastructure stack.

Job responsibilities

* Maintains a practical, end-to-end understanding of the hypervisor, operating

system and datacenter stack, including how the layers interact, where

responsibilities sit, and how decisions in one area affect another.

* Identifies and unblocks work that has stalled between teams by defining

missing requirements, prototyping uncertain solutions, driving decisions

through the appropriate forums, documenting outcomes, and transitioning

ownership to the relevant team.

* Partners with architects, design authorities and engineering teams across

hypervisor platforms, operating systems, storage, networking, cyber and

datacenter services, providing architectural leadership and technical depth

while respecting domain ownership.

* Reviews and strengthens designs already in progress, ensuring they align

across adjacent domains and contribute to a coherent, scalable platform.

* Influences technical direction across organizational boundaries through

expertise, evidence and sound judgement rather than formal authority.

* Uses prototypes and reference implementations to validate ideas, reduce

uncertainty and inform architectural decisions where analysis alone is

insufficient.

* Establishes and publishes consumer requirements before evaluating technology

options, ensuring solutions are driven by business needs rather than vendor

offerings.

* Authors and reviews architecture decisions, design standards and reference

architectures, including maintaining alignment between documented standards

and implemented solutions.

* Leads cross-platform architectural work across the hypervisor estate,

including capacity and placement models, lifecycle management, migration

strategies, key management, attestation, and the interfaces that allow

multiple hypervisors to operate as a unified platform.

* Provides cross-domain leadership across the operating system layer, covering

image build and release pipelines, host and guest operating systems at scale,

operating systems on accelerator hardware, and the patching, upgrade and

certification processes that span them.

* Mentors engineers and architects, contributes to technical training and

curriculum development, and produces documentation that enables teams to

operate independently and effectively.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

* Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+

years applied experience

* Extensive experience in Infrastructure Architecture, with significant

practical experience applying architectural principles in complex

environments.

* Deep expertise in enterprise hypervisor platforms operating at scale across

multiple technologies, including scheduling, memory management, live

migration, storage and network data paths, and failure modes.

* Deep operating system expertise across Linux and Windows estates, including

image build and release pipelines, hardening, compliance scanning, patching,

vulnerability remediation and lifecycle management.

* Hands-on experience with bare-metal infrastructure, including host

provisioning, out-of-band management, firmware and BIOS lifecycle, Secure

Boot, and hardware-backed attestation.

* Good understanding of datacenter infrastructure, including power, cooling,

rack design, network topology, hardware lifecycle and the impact of physical

design on fault domains and availability zones.

* Strong engineering background with the ability to write and troubleshoot

production-quality code, in Go or Python. Comfortable working across

operating systems, logs, networking and low-level diagnostics.

* Solid understanding of storage and networking technologies, including block

and file storage, software-defined storage, network virtualization and

hardware offload.

* Proven ability to contribute effectively in unfamiliar domains, quickly add

value to complex problems, and help teams succeed without taking ownership

away from them.

* Experience defining and publishing requirements before selecting

technologies, with the judgement to challenge solutions that do not meet

those requirements.

* Track record of producing architecture decision records, design standards and

reference architectures that have been adopted in practice

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

* Experience leading or supporting large-scale hypervisor migrations or

platform consolidations where multiple platforms operate in production

simultaneously.

* Experience working in multi-hypervisor environments and designing the

abstraction, operational and capacity models needed to support them.

* Familiarity with accelerator and SmartNIC technologies, confidential

computing and remote attestation.

* Experience with key management, hardware security modules, and certificate

and secrets management for infrastructure platforms.

* Experience supporting virtual desktop platforms or other large-scale managed

infrastructure services.

* Experience with bare-metal recovery, operationally isolated environments, and

recovery architectures with defined recovery objectives.

* Contributions to open-source projects in virtualization, operating systems or

infrastructure provisioning are advantageous.

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative

financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the

world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the

J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are

a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial

banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

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.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring

to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal

opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our

company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute,

including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation,

gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or

disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make

reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and

beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs

[https://careers.jpmorgan.com/us/en/how-we-hire/faqs] for more information about

requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including

Disability/Veterans

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from

finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an

essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses,

clients, customers and employees up for success.

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