Principal Architect - Observability

Job Description
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 JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking-Core Platform Engineering, you are the driving force to develop high-quality architecture solutions/patterns for various core platform areas, ranging from Infra as a code for hybrid cloud and on-prem infra provisioning, canary and blue/green deployment, to event driven micro service architectures, etc. You drive significant business impact and help shape the target state architecture through your capabilities in multiple architecture domains.
The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing and implementing comprehensive observability solutions that enhance the visibility, reliability, and performance of our systems and applications. This role requires a deep understanding of observability practices, tools, and technologies, as well as a strategic mindset to drive innovation and continuous improvement.
Job Responsibilities

• Advise cross-functional teams on technology selection to achieve target state architecture and decisions on improvements to current technologies.
• Develop multi-year roadmaps aligned with business and architecture strategy and priorities
• Create complex and scalable coding frameworks using appropriate software design
• Develop secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Serve as the function's go-to subject matter expert
• Contribute to the development of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies
• Create durable, reusable software frameworks that improves velocity and quality of output across teams and functions
• Champion the firm's culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Expertise in Java programming language.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry and observability tools and platforms such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Jaeger, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog, or similar.
• Deep knowledge in one or more software, applications, and architecture
• Advanced knowledge of software architecture, application development, and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., public cloud, Infra and API observability, etc.)
• Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex architecture problems in one or more technical disciplines
• Strong understanding of observability principles, including logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting.
• Ability to present and effectively communicate to senior leaders and executives
• Practical cloud native experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Strong presentation and communication skills
• Prior experience on Infra and Platform as a Service, canary and blue/green deployment, progressive rollout.

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 Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We're proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions - all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.