Director of Software Engineering - Java & Aws

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Consumer & Community Banking

Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase in Hyderabad, India, leading technical areas and driving impact within teams, technologies, and projects. This role involves making decisions on resources, budget, and operations, with governance accountability for coding decisions and success measures. Responsibilities include end-to-end delivery of large-scale credit card platform initiatives, providing architectural direction for highly available, fault-tolerant systems, and championing AI-driven development practices. The role also involves translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions, partnering with risk and compliance, and evaluating data processing patterns. Requires formal training or certification in software engineering with 10+ years of experience, including 5+ years leading technologists. Proven experience in architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems, hands-on expertise with modern enterprise technology stacks (Java/Kotlin, reactive frameworks, containers), and experience embedding security and compliance controls are essential. Experience in the banking/financial services domain, particularly Digital Wallet or payments, and extensive AWS experience are also required.

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. Own end-to-end delivery of large-scale credit card platform initiatives, managing scope, risk, and dependencies across multiple workstreams
  5. Provide architectural direction for platform engineering, designing highly available, fault-tolerant systems capable of processing transactions at scale with minimal latency

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts
  • 10+ years applied experience
  • 5+ years of experience leading technologists
  • Proven experience architecting and delivering large-scale, high-availability distributed systems processing high-volume, low-latency workloads
  • Hands-on expertise with modern enterprise technology stacks, including Java/Kotlin, reactive and asynchronous frameworks, event-promoten architectures, containerized environments, and infrastructure-as-code tools
  • Ability to promote complex, multi-workstream delivery programs from technical strategy through production release
  • Experience embedding security, compliance, and regulatory controls into engineering workflows and CI/CD pipelines
  • Track record of building, mentoring, and scaling engineering teams across multiple experience levels
  • Ability to operate effectively at the intersection of technology and business, including presenting technical strategy and trade-offs to senior stakeholders
  • Experience in the banking or financial services domain, with Digital Wallet or payments industry experience
  • Extensive experience with AWS services, including architecture, deployment, and optimization of cloud-based solutions.

Nice to have

  • Proficiency with architectural modeling languages such as UML or the C4 model, and familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks
  • Hands-on experience with event-driven architecture patterns, including technologies such as Kafka, event sourcing, and CQRS
  • Exposure to AI/ML tooling, large language model integration, or AI-assisted software development practices
  • Demonstrated expertise in building 0-to-1 applications, taking products from concept to launch.
  • Skilled in processing and managing large volumes of data for settlement and reconciliation workflows, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years applied experience
  • 5+ years of experience leading technologists
  • Proven experience architecting and delivering large-scale, high-availability distributed systems processing high-volume, low-latency workloads
  • Experience embedding security, compliance, and regulatory controls into engineering workflows and CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience in the banking or financial services domain, with Digital Wallet or payments industry experience
  • Extensive experience with AWS services