Job Description

As the Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Technology function, you will lead a technical area and promote impact across teams, technologies, and projects within various departments. You will leverage your extensive expertise in software, applications, technical processes, and product management to oversee multiple complex projects and initiatives. In this role, you will serve as the primary decision maker for your teams, fostering innovation and ensuring the successful delivery of solutions.

Job responsibilities

• Leads technology and process implementations to achieve functional technology objectives
• Drives the technical vision and transformation roadmap for the application, balancing near term delivery with long term strategy
• Identifies and evaluates AI -powered capabilities that improve user experience and/or development velocity
• Makes decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
• Carries governance accountability for coding decisions, control obligations, and measures of success such as cost of ownership, maintainability, and portfolio operations
• Delivers technical solutions that can be leveraged across multiple businesses and domains
• Managing mid size technology teams, providing coaching, career development, mentorship
• Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams
• Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and expert applied experience. In addition, advanced experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
• Managing a team in a matrixed environment
• Experience in being the technical lead for a user facing application or suite of user facing products.
• Experience in application development; including partnering with product/stakeholders regarding application design and architecture.
• Experience leveraging AI tools in software development as well as identifying AI-Driven product opportunities
• Demonstrated ability to define and communicate a multi-year technical strategy to both engineering and non-technical audiences
• Demonstrated ability to develop deep business domain knowledge and translate requirements into technical solutions

• Experience developing or leading cross-functional teams of technologists

• Experience in speaking directly to business stakeholders to discuss requirements and project updates.
• Experience leading a product as a Product Owner, Product Manager or Senior Development Lead
• Full stack Java expertise

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience working at code level

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.