Director of Software Engineering : CCB Risk Decisions

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 Consumer and Community Banking, 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

• Identify and implement innovative solutions and drive efficiency for high volume, low latency applications.
• Ensure systems are designed for scalability, resilience, and interoperability using cloud-based technologies.
• 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, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ year of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise and more broadly across the organization
• Deep expertise in core banking systems, payment processing, regulatory requirements, and financial services technology best practices.
• Strong hands-on engineering foundation in Java, Spring, JMS, Webservices integration patterns leveraging JSON, Swagger, etc.
• Expertise in both SQL and NoSQL technologies such Oracle, Cassandra, Cockroach, and big data platforms (Hadoop, Snowflake, etc.)
• Proficient with modern frameworks, microservices architecture, cloud-native technologies, and DevOps practices; experienced in Agile/Scrum, CI/CD pipelines, and contemporary SDLC.
• Good understanding and hands on experience with cloud-based software deployments including AWS, Azure, and others.
• Demonstrated success implementing enterprise ready systems and platforms and continuous improvement methodologies with measurable gains in team productivity and delivery quality.
• Proven track record leading complex, multi-workstream initiatives with distributed global teams.
• Exceptional stakeholder management across time zones and cultures; adept at influencing senior executives, collaborating globally with peers, and inspiring high-performing teams.
• Combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution; thrives in fast-paced, dynamic environments; brings adaptability, structured problem-solving, and resilience.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience working at code level.
• Experience in implementing enterprise Decision and analytics platforms.