Director of Software Engineering

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · LONDON, LONDON, United Kingdom · Corporate Sector

Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase, leading technical areas and promoting impact across teams. Focuses on identifying and evaluating AI-powered capabilities, driving technical vision, and overseeing the delivery of solutions. Responsible for setting direction and governance for agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation, including establishing guardrails and applying AI tools in software development. Manages technology teams and influences stakeholders.

What you'd actually do

  1. Leads technology and process implementations to achieve functional technology objectives
  2. Drives the technical vision and transformation roadmap for the application, balancing near term delivery with long term strategy
  3. Identifies and evaluates AI -powered capabilities that improve user experience and/or development velocity
  4. Makes decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
  5. Delivers technical solutions that can be leveraged across multiple businesses and domains

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and expert applied experience
  • 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
  • Experience leading adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering practices (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) across teams, including defining operating expectations (human-in-the-loop validation, quality gates), measuring outcomes, and ensuring secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs
  • Strong understanding of responsible AI use and control expectations in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, resiliency/security implications, and governance; ability to influence leaders on safe scaling patterns and reuse
  • 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

Nice to have

  • Experience working at code level

What the JD emphasized

  • agentic AI-enabled engineering
  • AI-assisted development
  • responsible AI use
  • agentic AI-enabled engineering practices

Other signals

  • AI-powered capabilities
  • agentic AI-enabled engineering
  • AI-assisted development