JPMorgan Senior Principal Architect - Compute Platform 

United Kingdom, England, London 

428915884

Job responsibilities

• Advises and leads on strategy and development of multiple products, applications, and technologies across a portfolio
• Translates highly complex technical issues, trends, and approaches to leadership to drive the firm’s innovation and enable leaders to make strategic, well-informed decisions about target state architecture
• Drives adoption and implementation of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies
• Anticipate and plan for future compute demands, including emerging technologies such as AI/ML, quantum computing, and other advanced computing paradigms.
• Maintain a deep and broad understanding of modern technologies and industry trends to ensure the platform remains cutting-edge and competitive.
• Think like a business owner and prioritize customer satisfaction by designing and delivering solutions that delight users and meet their evolving needs.
• Work closely with various stakeholders, including business units and technical teams, to ensure alignment and successful implementation of strategic initiatives.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by regularly evaluating and enhancing platform capabilities, processes, and methodologies.
• Establishes and leads an architecture governance body
• Creates durable, reusable software frameworks that improves velocity and quality of output across teams and functions
• Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Demonstrated prior experience influencing across functions and teams to deliver modern architecture
• Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex architecture problems across various technical disciplines
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best technology solutions and approaches to achieve the future state architecture
• Deep understanding of cloud architecture principles and best practices, including experience with major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience designing and managing hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Expertise in containerization technologies (e.g., Docker) and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes) and virtualization technologies (e.g. VMware vSphere, ESXi, and NSX, OpenShift, etc)
• In-depth understanding of networking concepts, including software-defined networking (SDN), virtual private clouds (VPCs), and network security groups.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation.
• Experience in performance tuning and optimization of compute and storage resources in cloud and virtualized environments.
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices and tools, including CI/CD pipelines, version control systems (e.g., Git), and configuration management.
• Experience with project management methodologies and tools, such as Agile, Scrum, and JIRA.