Sr Director of Software Engineering - AI Engineering

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Jersey City, NJ +1 · Commercial & Investment Bank

Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead the execution and operationalization of AI-powered solutions across the SDLC and PDLC within Commercial and Investment Bank Payments Technology. Focus on delivering robust, secure, and scalable engineering outcomes, embedding AI into production workflows to optimize developer productivity, quality, and security. Requires deep expertise in software engineering, AI/LLMs, agentic development patterns, and a strong track record in delivery. Will influence outcomes across a highly matrixed organization, ensuring successful adoption and continuous improvement of AI-enabled engineering practices.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the execution of an AI-native SDLC and PDLC model across architecture, coding, security, testing, release, and observability phases.
  2. Operationalize agentic patterns and toolchains, including LLM orchestration, skills, context engineering, and MCP-based integrations.
  3. Ensure responsible AI practices in production: guardrails, evaluation, monitoring, and auditable workflows.
  4. Partner with App Dev leaders and platform owners to identify high-impact use cases, validate value, and scale production adoption.
  5. Translate engineering workflows into AI-enabled production capabilities (assistive to autonomous) that materially reduce developer toil.

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience, including 5+ years leading technologists to manage, anticipate, and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
  • Deep expertise in AI/LLMs and their application to software engineering workflows (coding, design, security, testing, release).
  • Hands-on experience with agentic systems, tool/skill orchestration, and integration patterns (e.g., MCP, A2A, function/tool calling).
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional engineering delivery amid ambiguity, roadmap definition, backlog, dependency management, and stakeholder alignment.
  • Strong communicator with executive-level stakeholder management, able to translate between engineering depth and business outcomes.
  • Experience leading multi-organization adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering operating models (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment), including defining governance (human-in-the-loop decisioning, quality gates), measurement frameworks, and secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs across teams.
  • 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
  • Deep understanding of responsible AI risk, controls, and resiliency/security expectations at scale, with demonstrated ability to advise senior leaders on safe adoption, portfolio governance, and reuse-first strategies.
  • Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Nice to have

  • Experience working at code level
  • Experience with on-prem , cloud-native ecosystems and AWS services (e.g., EKS, Glue, S3, etc.,)
  • Familiarity with modern data architectures and sharing patterns , data contracts/entitlements, and cost optimization.
  • Experience with secure SDLC practices and developer security tooling and vulnerability management metrics.
  • API-first production design and integration patterns; strong analytics and experimentation discipline.

What the JD emphasized

  • Deep expertise in AI/LLMs and their application to software engineering workflows
  • Hands-on experience with agentic systems, tool/skill orchestration, and integration patterns
  • 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

Other signals

  • AI-native SDLC and PDLC
  • Operationalize agentic patterns and toolchains
  • Responsible AI practices in production
  • Scale production adoption
  • Translate engineering workflows into AI-enabled production capabilities