Principal Architect

Join a visionary team at JPMorgan Chase Home Lending Architecture, where you’ll lead the strategic direction, design systems, and user experience architecture for our digital platforms. 

As a Principal Architect at JPMorgan Chase within Home Lending Architecture, you’ll lead the strategic direction, design systems, and user experience architecture for our digital platforms. You will define and govern UI/UX patterns, reusable libraries, and platform-wide standards that promote consistency, scalability, and innovation across all products. You’ll shape the digital experience for millions of customers, influence architectural decisions, and foster a culture of collaboration and technical excellence. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on the future of home lending technology, working with modern cloud-native architectures and cutting-edge technologies.

Job responsibilities 

• Define and drive the UI/UX vision, strategy, and roadmap in alignment with business goals and user needs.
• Advocate for user-centered design at the organizational level, influencing product and technology strategy.
• Advise and lead on strategy and development for multiple products, applications, and technologies across a portfolio.
• Architect, maintain, and evolve comprehensive design systems, component libraries, and UX patterns for cross-platform consistency.
• Establish and enforce design guidelines, accessibility standards, and best practices across teams.
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure seamless implementation of design systems and patterns and integration of reusable UI components and frameworks to accelerate product delivery and ensure design consistency.
• Partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into scalable, intuitive solutions.
• Influence across business, product, and technology teams and manage senior stakeholder relationships.
• Drive adoption and implementation of modern front-end frameworks, design systems, and best practices.
• Mentor and guide UI/UX teams, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Evaluate and recommend new tools, platforms, and methodologies to enhance user experience and team productivity.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on front-end technologies concepts and 10+ years applied experience
• 8+ years of experience in UI/UX design, with at least 3 years in a lead or architect role.
• Advanced knowledge of architecture, design, and business processes with proficiency in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines.
• Proven expertise in building and scaling design systems, component libraries, and cross-platform UI/UX strategies.
• Knowledge and experience working with web technologies and Java, as well as developing custom UI components.
• Experience ensuring the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Experience with RESTful APIs and integration with React.js.
• Expertise in web framework and application design and architecture disciplines.
• Extensive working experience and advanced knowledge in server-side web and mocking technologies for testing.
• Deep understanding of accessibility, usability, and responsive design principles. Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Possess a functional orientation, understanding how development work translates to the business end-user.
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue) and design tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD).
• Micro-services architecture and cloud computing knowledge. Micro-front-end architecture experience.
• Advanced hands-on knowledge of web development.
• Familiarity with enterprise-level platforms and complex product ecosystems.
• Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices.
• Ability to balance business objectives, technical constraints, and user needs at scale. Ability to work in large, collaborative teams to achieve organizational goals.

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs. 

 

 

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.

 

 

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans

Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We’re proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions – all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.