Director of Software Engineering

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Wilmington, DE +1 · Consumer & Community Banking

Director of Software Engineering to lead technology and process implementations, drive innovation, and manage multiple complex projects. The role involves setting direction for agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation, applying knowledge of AI-assisted development tools, and ensuring responsible AI use and control expectations in engineering workflows. Requires strong experience in data pipelines, cloud platforms, Java/Python, and leading technical teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Sets direction and governance for agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation within a technical area to drive measurable improvements in speed, quality, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-orchestrated delivery workflows, release readiness controls, automated test modernization, and incident triage acceleration), while establishing guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, traceability, and reuse across teams.
  2. Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation and support capacity unlock initiatives at scale.
  3. Makes decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
  4. Carries governance accountability for coding decisions, control obligations, and measures of success such as cost of ownership, maintainability, and portfolio operations
  5. Delivers technical solutions that can be leveraged across multiple businesses and domains

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on data management concepts and 10+ years applied experience
  • 5+ years of experience leading technologists
  • Designing and developing large scale data pipelines for batch & stream processing
  • Data Validation / Data Quality
  • Data Warehousing, Data Lake, ETL processes
  • Big Data technologies (e.g Hadoop, Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Spark, PySpark, Airflow, Apache Kafka, Java, Open File & Table Formats, GIT, CI/CD pipelines etc. )
  • public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • modern data processing & engineering tools
  • communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
  • developing or leading large or cross-functional teams of technologists
  • responsible AI use and control expectations in engineering workflows
  • leading adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering practices
  • Java or Python
  • architect and build complex AI models from scratch
  • delivery of secure, high-quality production code
  • extensive practical cloud native experience
  • working at code level and ability to be hands-on performing PoCs, code reviews

Nice to have

  • Data Modeling
  • Data Governance, Data Privacy & Subject Rights, Data Quality & Data Security practices
  • Data visualization & BI tools

What the JD emphasized

  • agentic AI-enabled engineering
  • responsible AI use and control expectations
  • agentic AI-enabled engineering practices

Other signals

  • AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation
  • agentic AI-enabled engineering practices
  • responsible AI use and control expectations