Principal Architect - Observability

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 promoting force behind the development of high-quality architecture solutions/patterns for various core platform areas. From Infra as a code for hybrid cloud and on-prem infra provisioning, canary and blue/green deployment, to event promoten micro service architectures, your work will have a significant business impact. You will help shape the target state architecture through your capabilities in multiple architecture domains. In this role, you will design and implement 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 promote 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.