Director of Software Engineering

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · New York, NY +1 · Consumer & Community Banking

Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within Card Services. Leads a technical area and drives impact within teams, technologies, and projects across departments. Utilizes in-depth knowledge of software, applications, technical processes, and product management to drive multiple complex projects and initiatives, serving as a primary decision maker and a driver of innovation and solution delivery. Drives DevOps and CI/CD delivery and selectively integrates AI/GenAI-enabled engineering tools into developer workflows.

What you'd actually do

  1. Leads technology and process implementations to achieve functional technology objectives
  2. Makes decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
  3. Carries governance accountability for coding decisions, control obligations, and measures of success such as cost of ownership, maintainability, and portfolio operations
  4. Delivers technical solutions that can be leveraged across multiple businesses and domains, including cloud infrastructure platform capabilities (hybrid/public cloud) with automated provisioning of on-demand/ephemeral environments and reusable self-service services
  5. Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts
  • Experience developing or leading cross-functional teams of technologists
  • Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
  • Experience leading a product as a Product Owner or Product Manager
  • Practical cloud native experience, including platform engineering and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent), API/service enablement patterns (REST, brokers)
  • Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Nice to have

  • strong security and resiliency requirements

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years applied experience
  • 5+ years of experience leading technologists
  • regulated environments