Senior Principal Architect — IaaS & Compute Platforms
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Job Description
Step into the role of a Senior Principal Architect at JPMorganChase and become a driving force behind the development and adoption of cutting-edge, cloud-based technologies.
As a Senior Principal Architect at JPMorganChase within the Core Infrastructure Platforms Architecture team, you will provide expertise to design, enhance, and evolve the firm's IaaS and compute platform architectures. You will own the technical vision for datacenter provisioning from bare metal through hypervisors to virtual machines, ensuring scalable, secure, and operationally excellent infrastructure that powers the firm's most critical workloads. Leverage your deep understanding of the compute stack and collaborate with platform engineering, cloud, and application teams to drive best-in-class outcomes. This is a senior individual contributor role focused on architecting modern compute platforms in a large, regulated financial environment. You will define platform capabilities, integration patterns, and automation frameworks that enable efficient workload deployment while meeting stringent regulatory and operational requirements.
Job Responsibilities
Step into the role of a Senior Principal Architect at JPMorganChase and become a driving force behind the development and adoption of cutting-edge, cloud-based technologies.
As a Senior Principal Architect at JPMorganChase within the Core Infrastructure Platforms Architecture team, you will provide expertise to design, enhance, and evolve the firm's IaaS and compute platform architectures. You will own the technical vision for datacenter provisioning from bare metal through hypervisors to virtual machines, ensuring scalable, secure, and operationally excellent infrastructure that powers the firm's most critical workloads. Leverage your deep understanding of the compute stack and collaborate with platform engineering, cloud, and application teams to drive best-in-class outcomes. This is a senior individual contributor role focused on architecting modern compute platforms in a large, regulated financial environment. You will define platform capabilities, integration patterns, and automation frameworks that enable efficient workload deployment while meeting stringent regulatory and operational requirements.
Job Responsibilities
- Defines and owns the architecture for IaaS and compute platforms spanning bare metal provisioning, hypervisor technologies, and virtual machine lifecycle management; establish patterns for platform integration and automation.
- Architects datacenter compute provisioning flows from hardware through virtualization layers; design frameworks for resource management, orchestration, and platform operations.
- Designs and evolves hypervisor platform architectures across multiple technologies; define standards for cluster design, high availability, resource allocation, and operational management.
- Architects platform integration with supporting infrastructure including storage, networking, identity services, and monitoring systems.
- Embeds compliance and controls into platform designs; ensure regulatory requirements for infrastructure provisioning, change management, and access controls are met; align with firm policies and regulations.
- Partners with engineering teams to drive automation and infrastructure-as-code; define configuration models, policy enforcement, and deployment workflows.
- Develops reference architectures, design patterns, and platform blueprints that enable efficient and secure consumption of compute infrastructure.
- Formal training or certification on software infrastructure architecture concepts and expert applied experience.
- Extensive experience architecting and delivering IaaS and compute platforms in large, complex, regulated financial services or enterprise environments.
- Deep expertise in hypervisor technologies and virtualization platforms, including architecture, design, deployment, and operational management of production environments.
- Strong understanding of the full datacenter compute stack from bare metal provisioning (hardware, firmware, BMC/IPMI, imaging, PXE/network boot) through hypervisor layers to virtual machine lifecycle management.
- Experience with Windows Server and Hyper-V architecture, including failover clustering, Hyper-V Replica, Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), and integration with Active Directory and enterprise management systems.
- Familiarity with multiple hypervisor platforms (VMware vSphere/ESXi, KVM, Hyper-V) and ability to architect hybrid or multi-hypervisor environments.
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.
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