JPMorgan Chase
Principal Architect - Data
$204K–$285K
Palo Alto, CA · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years applied experience; experience in data architecture, enterprise architecture, software architecture, or a comparable technical leadership role.
- Education
- Formal training or certification on architecture concepts.
About the job
Establish and execute enterprise data architecture for Foundational Services, turning standards into reusable engineering patterns and guiding cross-product data decisions and adoption.
What you'll do
- Define the target-state architecture and prioritized roadmap, including models for priority domains.
- Develop and govern reusable data integration patterns, contracts, standards, and implementation assets; validate them in product delivery.
- Lead cross-product architecture decisions, reviews, remediation, and adoption reporting while coaching teams and aligning executives.
What they ask for
- Formal training or certification on architecture concepts.
- 10+ years of applied experience in data architecture, enterprise architecture, software architecture, or a comparable technical leadership role in a large, complex organization.
- Deep working knowledge of data modeling, relational design, identifiers, integrity constraints, schema evolution, and data contracts.
- Experience designing and governing data integration patterns across APIs, event-driven architectures, streaming, batch processing, replication, and analytical environments.
Nice to have
- Experience in financial services or another highly regulated, high-availability environment.
- Experience with enterprise streaming, event-driven architecture, data platforms, metadata and lineage tooling, or data catalog capabilities.
Pay
$204,250.00-$285,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
APIs, event-driven architectures, streaming platforms, batch processing, replication
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