Director of Software Engineering

JPMorgan Chase - Jersey City, NJ

Full-time - Senior

Jersey City, NJ

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

Your opportunity to make a real impact and shape the future of financial services is waiting for you. Let's push the boundaries of what's possible together. As a Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Loan Trading Technology, you will lead a technical area and drive impact within teams, technologies, and projects across departments. This role requires you to utilize your in-depth knowledge of software, applications, technical processes, and product management to drive multiple complex projects and initiatives. You will serve as a primary decision maker for your teams and be a driver of innovation and solution delivery. In this position, you will lead multiple technology and process implementations across departments to achieve firmwide technology objectives. You will directly manage multiple areas with a strategic transactional focus, providing leadership and high-level direction to teams while frequently overseeing employee populations across multiple platforms, divisions, and lines of business. As the primary interface with senior leaders, stakeholders, and executives, you will drive consensus across competing objectives and manage multiple stakeholders, complex projects, and large cross-product collaborations. Your role will also involve influencing peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams. You will champion the firm's culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect, ensuring that these values are integrated into all aspects of your work and the work of your teams.

Responsibilities

• Leads multiple technology and process implementations across departments to achieve firmwide technology objectives.
• Directly manages multiple areas with strategic transactional focus.
• Provides leadership and high-level direction to teams while frequently overseeing employee populations across multiple platforms, divisions, and lines of business.
• Acts as the primary interface with senior leaders, stakeholders, and executives, driving consensus across competing objectives.
• Manages multiple stakeholders, complex projects, and large cross-product collaborations.
• 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 on software engineering concepts and 10 years of applied experience.
• Hands-on experience developing or leading large or cross-functional teams of technologists.
• Practical cloud native, Kubernetes experience.
• Experience in modern architecture, distributed architecture, Rest and messaging frameworks like Kafka.
• Experience in SQL, Oracle.
• Demonstrated prior experience influencing across matrix organizations and delivering value at scale.
• Experience managing stakeholders, working with operations to gather requirements and negotiate project scope.
• Experience leading complex projects supporting system design, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent.

Nice-to-haves

• Syndicated loan trading or servicing tech experience.
• Experience working in AWS - EKS, ECS, NoSQL databases.