Step into the role of a Sr Lead Infrastructure Architect at JPMorganChase and play a key role in enabling the adoption of cloud-based technologies across the firm's lines of business. This is an opportunity to combine deep technical expertise with a customer-facing mindset, driving meaningful impact at enterprise scale while growing your career within a world-class engineering organization.
As a Sr Lead Infrastructure Architect at JPMorganChase within Infrastructure Platforms (Cloud Foundations), you partner with internal customers to accelerate their adoption of the firm's cloud platform, delivering technical guidance, tooling, and enablement that reduces friction and improves time-to-value. You bring both depth and breadth across infrastructure architecture, translating platform capabilities into practical outcomes for the engineering teams you support — while contributing to the architectural coherence and long-term direction of the platform.
Job responsibilities
- Partner with engineering teams across lines of business to guide end-to-end cloud platform adoption, including boundary creation, migration workflows, and platform onboarding
- Apply deep infrastructure architecture knowledge and problem-solving methodologies to initiatives of moderate-to-high complexity, delivering high-quality, innovative, and functional design outcomes
- Contribute to multi-year adoption roadmaps by surfacing customer needs, blockers, and patterns to product and architecture teams, driving thought leadership that influences platform direction
- Build and maintain technical enablement tooling — automation scripts, guided workflows, and self-service capabilities — that reduce manual effort and scale the team's support capacity across the firm
- Develop and maintain clear, accurate platform documentation and training materials aligned with current product state, supporting engineering communities at scale
- Apply enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to accelerate enablement work, including documentation, tooling development, and customer interaction support, with appropriate validation and data handling
- Identify recurring customer friction points and translate them into actionable product feedback and engineering improvement requests
- Evaluate recommendations for new infrastructure architecture technologies and provide structured feedback to leaders and product teams
- Support the design and delivery of training programs for platform adopters, enabling engineering teams to onboard and operate effectively
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on infrastructure architecture concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience with cloud platform delivery, including application deployment, infrastructure configuration, and operational support
- Deep knowledge of infrastructure architecture principles, including networking, identity and access management, and environment governance
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages, with experience writing automation scripts and platform tooling
- Ability to analyze current-state infrastructure and make well-reasoned recommendations for future-state architecture aligned to resiliency and security expectations
- Ability to understand the needs of the customer and reflect those needs through infrastructure design, providing clear feedback to leaders
- Demonstrated experience applying enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within engineering workflows, with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity
- Ability to assess and validate AI-assisted infrastructure recommendations before adoption, escalating uncertainty and ensuring outcomes align to resiliency, security, and auditability expectations
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to both engineering and non-technical audiences
- Experience working directly with internal or external customers in a technical advisory or support capacity
- Practical cloud-native experience across modern platform delivery environments
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience working at code level on platform or infrastructure tooling, including cloud landing zone and boundary constructs
- Familiarity with agentic AI tooling and its application to platform operations and engineering productivity
- Background in developer experience, technical enablement, or platform advocacy roles
- Experience contributing to technical documentation programs or delivering engineering training at scale
- Experience with cloud landing zone and boundary constructs across enterprise-scale environments
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
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.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
JPMorganChase Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
Chicago, IL, United States
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