Solutions Architect - Executive Director
J.P. Morgan
IT
London, UK
Posted on Mar 31, 2026
Step into the role of a Principal Architect at JPMorganChase and become a driving force behind the development and adoption of cutting-edge, cloud-based technologies.
As a Principal Architect at JPMorganChase within the Infrastructure Platforms - within IP International Services, you provide expertise to enhance and develop architecture platforms based on modern cloud-based technologies, as well as support the adoption of strategic global solutions. Leverage your advanced architecture capabilities and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes.
Job responsibilities
- Demonstrate deep knowledge of infrastructure products, Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, networks, firewalls, storage, and data center management
- Influence and foster a culture of change, excellence, and innovation, constructively challenging the status quo
- Create effective partnerships with clients, business leaders, and application architects to define technology and architecture roadmaps
- Provide strategic and tactical direction to product teams, communicating technical direction to the wider technology community
- Establish, maintain, and communicate a technology vision, building support across departments through talks, papers, workshops, and interpersonal communication
- Participate in major technical decisions, develop technical proposals, and gain consensus among stakeholders
- Serve as a leader, consultant, mentor, and tutor in technical architecture areas of expertise
- Exhibit excellent interpersonal and written/oral communication skills, negotiating compromise and demonstrating diplomacy
- Apply strategic thinking and passion for business strategy and processes
- Rapidly understand and communicate the impact of solutions and technology
- Lead a small team of Solutions Architects to deliver high-quality architecture solutions
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
- Formal training or certification on infrastructure architecture principles
- Proven system design experience
- Experience in risk and risk control compliance
- Expertise in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines
- Experience collaborating with business representatives and system architects to ensure successful design
- Experience in cloud-native systems architecture or engineering, including system design reviews
- Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages, applications, and architecture
- In-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile)
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently
- Ability to understand technology in the context of business strategy and evaluate current and emerging technologies
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
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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.
Provide expertise and architecture excellence to enhance, build, and deliver market-leading technologies across the firm
