Director of Software Engineering - Third Party Services

About the position

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 Technology - Risk 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. Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

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
• Formal training or certification on Java full-stack development, MicroService, and AWS build & deploy processes
• Extensive experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
• Design & build new applications utilizing leading edge technologies and modernize existing applications, in particular the Snowflake data platform
• Building reusable components which other engineering teams can rely on to perform similar functions
• Experience with common data engineering tools and practices, including orchestration using Airflow or Step Functions, and common data storage technologies like Iceberg and S3 as well as building data pipelines and platforms in cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Hands-on professional experience designing, developing and deploying software components on AWS using common compute and storage services such as EC2, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS and Aurora
• Implement batch & real-time software components consistent with architectural best-practices of reliability, security, operational efficiency, cost-effectiveness and performance
• Collaborate with multi-national agile development, support and business teams to meet sprint objectives
• Experience hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
• Experience leading a product as a Product Owner or Product Manager

Nice-to-haves

• Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner, Developer or Solutions Architect strongly preferred
• Experience using Terraform to deploy infrastructure-as-code to public cloud
• Experience with Linux scripting such as Bash, KSH, or Python