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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Architect- Identity, Data Modeling & Platform API - **Company:** JPMorgan Chase & Co. - **Location:** Jersey City, NJ, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $204,250.0 - $285,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Active Directory, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), JIRA, Configuration Management Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Governance, Data Structures, Hypervisor, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Identity and Access Management, Kerberos (Protocol), Key Management, Metadata, Public Key Infrastructure, Role-Based Access Control, Reference Data, Software Systems, Management of Software Versions, Policy as Code, Kubernetes, Api Design, Pagination - **Published:** September 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=ea7e01f9771c68a6 ## About the Role * Formal training or certification on software Infrastructure Architecture concepts and expert applied experience * Extensive experience architecting in large, complex, regulated financial services environments, including identity-centric designs and production delivery. * Deep expertise in enterprise identity management and directory services, including: * Kerberos and Active Directory (forests/domains, trusts, group nesting, SPNs, constrained delegation, service accounts, PKI). * Authorization models and controls (RBAC, ABAC, policy evaluation, least privilege, privileged access, break-glass, JIT access). * Strong data modeling skills (relational, hierarchical, graph) and schema design for governance datasets (product catalogs, CMDB/inventory, configuration attributes, organizational structures). * Professional software and API design experience: REST/gRPC API design, versioning and compatibility strategies, service contracts, error models, pagination, performance, and security. * Hands-on understanding of IaaS and hypervisor platforms and how identity/authorization integrates with provisioning, lifecycle, and operations. * Demonstrated ability to embed regulatory, risk, and control requirements into architecture and provide audit-ready evidence and traceability. * Excellent communication and stakeholder management; able to collaborate deeply with developers and platform engineers to deliver pragmatic solutions., * Experience with policy-as-code and controls (e.g., OPA, Conftest, Sentinel) and mapping to control frameworks. * Familiarity with Kubernetes platform identity (workload identity, service accounts), service meshes, and identity-aware networking. * Experience with data governance practices: stewardship models, MDM, reference data, lineage, and reconciliation. * Background in secrets management, mTLS/PKI, and certificate lifecycle for services. * Track record improving team productivity via agile ways of working, backlog management, and delivery metrics. * Relevant certifications (e.g., identity/directory, security, architecture). ## Description As a Principal Architect at JPMorganChase within the Core Infrastructure Platforms Architecture team you provide expertise to enhance and develop architecture platforms based on modern cloud-based technologies, as well as support the adoption of strategic global solutions. Leverage your advanced architecture capabilities and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes. You will design the data and API foundations that connect identity, authority, ownership, and permission to workload deployment on IaaS platforms and hypervisors. This is a senior individual contributor role, focused on rigorous data modeling, software and API design, and identity architectures in a large, regulated financial environment. You will define canonical models and service contracts, ensure designs meet regulatory and control requirements, and partner closely with platform, engineering, and development teams., * Defines and owns canonical data models capturing identity, authority, ownership, and permissions across compute, storage, and network resources; model relationships among people, services, applications, and infrastructure assets. * Designs and evolves APIs and service contracts for entitlements and workload onboarding to IaaS and hypervisor platforms; establish versioning, compatibility, lifecycle, and governance for these interfaces. * Architects identity-aware provisioning flows and guardrails: integrate with directory and identity systems (e.g., Kerberos, Active Directory), enforce RBAC/ABAC, separation of duties, least privilege, and auditable change. * Establishes and maintains data structures used for technology governance (e.g., product catalogs, inventories/CMDB, configuration attributes, organizational hierarchies) with clear sources of truth, lineage, and stewardship. * Embeds compliance and controls into designs: evidence and traceability for regulatory obligations on identity, access management, and operational risk; align with firm policies and applicable regulations. * Partners with platform teams (hypervisors, IaaS, Kubernetes) and application developers to ensure secure, operable, and scalable workload deployment patterns; produce reference architectures, patterns, and reusable templates. * Defines policies and policy-as-code approaches for identity, authorization, configuration, and change; integrate controls into CI/CD and provisioning pipelines. * Drives data quality and observability for governance datasets: schemas, validations, metadata, golden records, reconciliation, and reporting. * Conducts architecture/design reviews; document decisions, risks, exceptions/waivers, and remediation plans; present in governance forums. * Promotes effective ways of working: help organize team backlogs and ceremonies, ensure Jira/Kanban hygiene, run stand-ups, and track delivery metrics to keep the team productive. * Mentors engineers and architects; foster a collaborative, low-ego, outcome-focused culture.