Director of Software Engineering, Cash and Check Management

JPMorgan Chase - Columbus, OH

Full-time - Senior

Columbus, OH

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About the position

The Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase is a leadership role responsible for driving impact within the Consumer and Community Banking Cash and Check Line of Business. This position involves leading technical areas, managing complex projects, and making key decisions that influence resources, budgets, and operational processes. The director will champion innovation and solution delivery while fostering a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion within the teams.

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.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience.
• 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise.
• Documented strengths in Innovation and Continuous Improvement to include promotion and adoption of emerging technologies and best practices within the cloud software engineering team.
• Experience developing or leading cross-functional teams of technologists.
• Ability to work collaboratively in teams and develop meaningful relationships to achieve common goals.
• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent.
• Deep expertise building and operating large scale high performance environments with distributed systems and cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.).
• Deep expertise with enterprise design patterns and industry best practices with experience using modern technology (eg, Java, Cassandra, Kafka) and design patterns (eg, microservices, APIs).
• Ability to work in a dynamic, agile environment leading/working with geographically distributed teams.
• Experience with building, leading and mentoring technology teams and next level leaders within the organization.
• Experience with implementing industry standard risk, cybersecurity & technology controls.
• Strong organizational and management skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working at code level.
• Experience with enterprise-level core banking systems.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health care coverage
• On-site health and wellness centers
• Retirement savings plan
• Backup childcare
• Tuition reimbursement
• Mental health support
• Financial coaching