JPMorgan Chase
Executive Director - Principal Architect | eComm Payments
$176K–$285K
Plano, TX +4 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Aug 5, 2026
- Location
- Plano, TX
Atlanta, GA
Chicago, IL
Seattle, WA
Tampa, FL - Experience
- 10+ years applied experience; no stated alternatives.
- Education
- Formal training or certification on architecture concepts.
About the job
Shapes architecture strategy and leads modernization of global eCommerce merchant payment platforms, including checkout, gateways, integrations, and value-added services.
What you'll do
- Advise stakeholders, define target architectures, and develop multi-year strategy and delivery roadmaps.
- Establish architecture governance and reusable, AI-enabled engineering practices; evaluate vendor and internal design proposals.
- Identify platform modernization and automation opportunities, and communicate architecture decisions to senior leaders.
What they ask for
- Formal training or certification in architecture concepts and 10+ years of applied experience.
- Hands-on delivery of system design, application development, testing, and operational stability in eCommerce or merchant acquiring payments.
- Deep knowledge of eCommerce payment flows and experience with scaling, resiliency, compliance frameworks, cloud-native solutions, and enterprise-authorized AI.
- Experience leading a product as a product owner or manager, defining business capabilities and technical roadmaps.
Nice to have
- Strong experience delivering eCommerce merchant payments and value-added solutions in acquiring.
- Experience with payment network or issuer integrations, or in-store/omnichannel payment architectures.
Pay
Chicago,IL $175,750.00-$260,000.00 USD base salary; Seattle,WA $204,250.00-$285,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
PCI-DSS, GDPR, 3DS, Open Banking
AI focus
Apply enterprise-authorized AI to architecture analysis, roadmap development, and design decisioning; establish AI-enabled engineering patterns, with human validation and sensitive-data safeguards.
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