Sr Director of Software Engineering

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Jersey City, NJ +1 · Corporate Sector

Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead strategy and implementation of agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation within a financial services firm. This role involves managing multiple departments, driving adoption of AI tools, establishing governance and guardrails, and ensuring responsible AI practices at scale.

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. Leads multiple technology and process implementations across departments to achieve firmwide technology objectives
  4. Directly manages multiple areas with strategic transactional focus
  5. Provides leadership and high-level direction to teams while frequently overseeing employee populations across multiple platforms, divisions, and lines of business

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts
  • 10+ years applied software engineering experience
  • 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 complex projects supporting system design, testing, and operational stability
  • Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
  • Extensive practical cloud native experience
  • Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
  • 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

Nice to have

  • Experience working at code level

What the JD emphasized

  • agentic AI-enabled engineering operating models
  • defining governance (human-in-the-loop decisioning, quality gates)
  • measurement frameworks
  • secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs
  • responsible AI risk, controls, and resiliency/security expectations at scale
  • advise senior leaders on safe adoption, portfolio governance, and reuse-first strategies

Other signals

  • Scaling multi-department strategy for agentic AI-enabled engineering
  • SDLC/TLM automation
  • AI-orchestrated delivery workflows
  • governance for agentic AI
  • responsible AI risk and controls