Senior Director of Software Engineering

JPMorgan Chase

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Work type
On-site
Location
Jersey City, NJ
Salary
$232,750–$325,000 / yr
Posted
9 days ago

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Above market

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This role $279k
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This role pays more than 96% of similar roles. Most pay $173,762–$222,425 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $279k versus about $198k for comparable roles.

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About JPMorgan Chase

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.

JPMorgan Chase currently has 436 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Director of Software Engineering

As a Senior Director of Software Engineering at JPMorganChase within Wealth Management Technology, you will lead the AI engineering program to modernize critical processing systems across various financial domains. Your role involves designing and delivering an end-to-end AI toolchain that ingests legacy code and data flows to produce structured specifications for migration. You will manage a high-performing team, embed with domain experts, and build multi-agent workflows for automated verification. Key responsibilities include strategic sequencing of migrations, building prompt engineering strategies, and establishing LLMOps practices within compliance standards. The ideal candidate has deep experience in production LLM-based applications, distributed systems, and scaling engineering teams, along with expertise in AI-assisted development tools and modern cloud platforms like AWS/EKS/Kafka. This role requires a strong background in financial services, particularly wealth management, and proficiency in technologies such as JVM, Rust, PostgreSQL, and Kafka.

What you'll do

  • Design and operate an end-to-end AI modernization pipeline for mainframe systems.
  • Own the strategic sequencing of migration across various business domains.
  • Build and lead a high-performing AI engineering team, setting standards and fostering culture.
  • Partner with domain experts to validate specifications and ensure business logic preservation.
  • Create multi-agent systems for discovery, specification generation, code translation, and verification.
  • Define target-state platforms for migrated calculations, ensuring deterministic and immutable deployment.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years in leadership roles
  • Deep hands-on experience building production LLM-based applications and agentic architectures
  • Expert proficiency with AI-assisted development tools integrated into daily workflows
  • Proven ability to build, scale, and manage high-performing engineering teams
  • Experience designing multi-agent orchestration systems for complex workflows
  • Strong communication skills translating technical concepts to business stakeholders
  • Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts required

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