Director of Software Engineering - Payments Technology

If you are a software engineering leader ready to take the reins and drive impact, we’ve got an opportunity just for you.

As a Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate and Investment Bank Payments Technology Team, you lead a technical area and drive impact within teams, technologies, and projects across departments. Utilize your in-depth knowledge of software, applications, technical processes, and product management to drive multiple complex projects and initiatives, while serving as a primary decision maker for your teams and be a driver of innovation and solution delivery.

Job responsibilities

• Leads technology and process implementations to achieve functional technology objectives.
• Makes decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures.
• Carries governance accountability for coding decisions, control obligations, and measures of success such as cost of ownership, maintainability, and portfolio operations.
• Delivers technical solutions that can be leveraged across multiple businesses and domains.
• Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams.
• Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
• Manages agile software delivery teams and partners with Product partners to drive all aspects of technology delivery.
• Delivers solutions leveraging modern technologies including cloud backed APIs and microservices, utilizing distributed database technologies.
• Acts as the primary interface with senior leaders and executives, driving consensus across competing objectives while managing multiple stakeholders, complex projects, and large cross-product collaborations.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience, including 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate, and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise.
• 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.
• Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
• Hands-on expertise in Java stack (spring boot, micro services, API, Kafka, Cockroach DB/Cassandra/Oracle) building and operating large-scale, high-performance environments with distributed systems and cloud technologies.
• Ability to work collaboratively in teams and develop meaningful relationships to achieve common goals.
• Experience with developing and managing large scale platforms with strong understanding of complex distributed systems running on hybrid infrastructure (on premises, private and public cloud environments).
• Experience with implementing industry standard cybersecurity and technology controls.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to present to and communicate effectively with key stakeholders across product, technology, data, and design.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience working at code level.
• Experience with building, leading, and mentoring technology teams and next level leaders within the organization.