Director of Software Engineering, Payment Data Platform Infrastructure

JPMorgan Chase

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Jersey City, NJ
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99 days ago
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a global financial services firm and one of the largest banks in the world, offering investment banking, commercial banking, asset management, and consumer financial services.

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TL;DR · Director of Software Engineering, Payment Data Platform Infrastructure

The Director of Software Engineering - Payment Data Platform Infrastructure joins the Commercial and Investment Banking - Data Analytics Payment Team to lead infrastructure, site reliability, and security operations. This leader oversees the BRIE data platform and NEO agent runtime, ensuring high-availability, multi-region active-active resilience across AWS and on-premises environments. Key responsibilities include managing SLOs, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and security posture, including threat detection and vulnerability management. The role involves championing infrastructure-as-code, immutable deployments, and agentic AI-enabled engineering practices. Required skills include expertise in distributed systems, CI/CD, and security in regulated environments. Technical proficiencies include Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, Apache Flink, Spark, and Java Spring Boot GraphQL. The position solves complex problems regarding GPU serving capacity, data lakehouse architectures, and real-time stream processing.

What you'll do

  • Own the reliability strategy for the platform estate, including SLOs, capacity planning, and multi-region disaster recovery.
  • Set the security operations agenda for threat detection, vulnerability management, and regulatory compliance.
  • Champion infrastructure-as-code, immutable deployments, and platform automation to ensure repeatable and auditable provisioning.
  • Direct the governance and implementation of agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC automation workflows.
  • Lead incident command for major events and drive blameless postmortems to ensure systemic remediation.
  • Translate infrastructure needs for compute, storage, and GPU capacity into a funded, prioritized roadmap.
  • Manage budget, tooling, and vendor selection while communicating cost and security trade-offs to senior leadership.

What we're looking for

  • Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 8+ years of applied experience.
  • Significant experience leading infrastructure, SRE, or platform organizations, including experience managing managers.
  • Experience leading teams of technologists and managing budget, resourcing, and delivery across multiple concurrent workstreams.
  • Hands-on background in large-scale distributed systems, including system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
  • Deep expertise operating production systems across public cloud and on-premises data centers with multi-region, active-active resilience and disaster recovery.
  • Demonstrated ownership of security posture in regulated environments, including SecOps, identity and access, secrets management, and audit.
  • Experience leading adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering practices and a strong understanding of responsible AI use and governance.
  • Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages and all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.

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