Job Description

Join us to drive innovation in cloud application architecture and platform engineering. You will shape how enterprise applications are designed, built, and operated, making a direct impact on our technology landscape. We offer opportunities for career growth, hands-on technical leadership, and collaboration with talented teams. Your expertise will help us modernize platforms and empower developers. Experience a culture that values creativity, inclusivity, and technical excellence.

Job Summary:
As an Executive Director, Principal Software Engineer in Infrastructure Platform Cloud Foundations Applied Architecture at JPMorganChase, you will lead the design and delivery of scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-native applications and platforms on public cloud. You will define reference architectures, well-architected patterns, and platform standards, while remaining deeply hands-on across design and delivery. You will partner with architects, platform teams, and stakeholders to translate strategy into actionable technical roadmaps. Your role will include mentoring and coaching engineering talent, and applying generative and agentic AI to enhance workflows and productivity.

Job Responsibilities:

Lead the design and delivery of cloud-native applications and platforms on public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)
Define standards for and enable generative AI and agentic AI features for multi-cloud management, including intelligent automation
Architect microservices, event-driven systems, APIs, and distributed cloud applications
Architects and governs agentic AI-enabled engineering workflows (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) to improve delivery speed, code quality, and operational outcomes at scale, while defining guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, and reuse across teams.
Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale.
Embed shift-left architecture controls, guardrails, and reusable patterns into workflows
Drive operational excellence through monitoring, logging, tracing, and SRE practices
Translate enterprise architecture principles into actionable platform capabilities
Partner with architects, engineering, product, risk, security, and business stakeholders

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

Demonstrate deep, hands-on expertise in public cloud (AWS, Azure or GCP) cloud application architecture and platform engineering
Apply best practices such as Well-Architected Frameworks across compute, storage, networking, serverless, containers, API Gateway, messaging, and data
Build internal developer platforms, self-service capabilities, and reusable patterns
Design distributed systems, event-driven architectures, REST/gRPC APIs, and resilient cloud applications
Demonstrated experience designing and leading adoption of agentic AI-enabled development practices (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) across teams, including setting standards for human-in-the-loop validation, auditability/traceability of changes, and secure handling of sensitive data.
Strong understanding of responsible AI use and control expectations in engineering workflows, including security/resiliency implications, data sensitivity, and risk-based governance; ability to influence senior technical leaders on safe scaling patterns and reuse.
Proficient in modern programming languages (Python, Java, or Go) and cloud-native frameworks
Embed architecture guidance, governance controls, and policy-as-code into workflows
Drive observability, operational excellence, and cost optimization
Lead teams and set architecture direction as a credible technical authority
Apply generative and agentic AI to engineering workflows, including prompt engineering, RAG, LLM orchestration, and AI-assisted developer tooling
Advanced fluency and proficiency with AI coding assistants (e.g. Claude Code) and Agentic Runtime environments (e.g. Agent Runtime / AgentCore / Agent Service)

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

Experience across at least two of the major public cloud service providers, including distributed systems at scale
Implement cloud security guardrails and ensure enterprise data privacy
Architecture experience in financial services or highly regulated environments
Familiarity with structured engineering models e.g Spec-Drive & Test-Driven Development
Open agentic frameworks, including building custom MCP servers or tools

About Us

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.

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 for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About the Team

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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