Senior Director of Software Engineering

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

Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple technical areas and manage departments, focusing on the adoption and implementation of agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation within financial services. The role involves setting strategy, establishing guardrails, and driving cross-domain reuse using enterprise-authorized AI tools, with a strong emphasis on responsible AI, risk, controls, and security.

What you'd actually do

  1. Sets and scales multi-department strategy for agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) to drive firmwide objectives (speed, scalability, reliability, and cost-to-serve), including portfolio-level standards for AI-orchestrated delivery workflows, release governance, automated test modernization, resilience engineering, and incident response acceleration; establishes guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, traceability, and reuse.
  2. Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to drive cross-domain reuse and measurable capacity unlock outcomes across departments.
  3. Provides leadership and high-level direction to teams while frequently overseeing employee populations across multiple platforms, divisions, and lines of business
  4. Manages multiple stakeholders, complex projects, and large cross-product collaborations
  5. Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts
  • 10+ years applied experience in software engineering
  • 5+ years of experience leading technologists
  • Experience developing or leading large or cross-functional teams of technologists
  • Demonstrated prior experience influencing across highly matrixed, complex organizations and delivering value at scale
  • Experience leading multi-organization adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering operating models
  • Deep understanding of responsible AI risk, controls, and resiliency/security expectations at scale
  • Experience leading complex projects supporting system design, testing, and operational stability
  • Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
  • Extensive practical cloud native experience

What the JD emphasized

  • agentic AI-enabled engineering
  • SDLC/TLM automation
  • AI-orchestrated delivery workflows
  • responsible AI risk, controls, and resiliency/security
  • Experience leading multi-organization adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering operating models

Other signals

  • agentic AI-enabled engineering
  • SDLC/TLM automation
  • AI-orchestrated delivery workflows
  • responsible AI risk, controls, and resiliency/security