Senior Director of Software Engineering

JPMorgan Chase

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On-site
Location
Wilmington, DEColumbus, OH
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Full-time
Posted
55 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 · Senior Director of Software Engineering

The Senior Director of Software Engineering joins the Consumer & Community Banking Operations Technology team to lead multiple technical domains and high-performing teams. This role involves driving strategic platform development, managing large cross-functional collaborations, and overseeing multi-department strategies for agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC automation. Key responsibilities include establishing guardrails for security, traceability, and resilience while managing complex projects and influencing senior stakeholders. The position requires deep expertise in API design using REST, SOAP, gRPC, and GraphQL, alongside AWS cloud services like EKS, serverless, and IAM. Candidates must utilize Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Kinesis, and databases like PostgreSQL and Neo4j. The work focuses on solving technical problems related to scalable, user-centric solutions, automated test modernization, and responsible AI risk controls within a complex financial services environment.

What you'll do

  • Lead multiple technology and process implementations across departments to achieve firmwide technology objectives.
  • Manage multiple areas with a strategic focus on transactional systems and high-performing teams.
  • Set and scale multi-department strategies for agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC automation.
  • Establish guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, traceability, and reuse across AI-orchestrated delivery workflows.
  • Apply software development life cycle tools to drive cross-domain reuse and measurable capacity outcomes.
  • Act as the primary interface with senior leaders and stakeholders to drive consensus across competing objectives.
  • Manage complex projects and large cross-product collaborations across multiple platforms and lines of business.
  • Advise senior leaders on responsible AI risk, controls, and secure adoption of portfolio governance.

What we're looking for

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years of applied experience.
  • 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within a domain of expertise.
  • Proven success delivering complex, multi-team programs at scale and on schedule.
  • Experience developing or leading large or cross-functional teams of technologists.
  • Deep expertise in API design, AWS cloud, CI/CD, container orchestration, event streaming, front-end frameworks, observability, and large-scale databases.
  • Experience leading multi-organization adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering operating models and understanding responsible AI risk and controls.
  • Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent.
  • Mastery of modern delivery methodologies like Agile, Scrum, and Kanban.
  • Hands-on coding experience and extensive practical cloud native experience.
  • Demonstrated prior experience influencing across highly matrixed, complex organizations and delivering value at scale (preferred).

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