Senior Manager of Software Engineering - Java

JPMorgan Chase - Wilmington, DE

Full-time - Mid Level

Wilmington, DE

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About the position

As a Senior Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Connected Commerce Technology team, you will play a pivotal leadership role by mentoring and advising multiple technical teams. Your expertise will help advance financial technologies, influence budget and technical considerations, and enhance operational efficiencies. This position requires a blend of technical acumen and leadership skills to guide teams in delivering high-quality software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level software engineers.
• Work at code-level and develop secure high-quality production code.
• Lead the design and development efforts of the team, creating standards and best practices.
• Execute software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting.
• Conduct regular code reviews and provide constructive feedback to maintain code quality and foster continuous improvement.
• Perform data manipulation, data structuring, data design flow, and query optimization using programming languages such as SQL.
• Proactively identify major issues, risks, dependencies, and manage them to minimize impact on overall implementation.
• Be accountable for decisions that influence teams' resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures.
• Anticipate dependencies with other teams to deliver products and applications in line with business requirements.
• Ensure successful collaboration across teams and stakeholders.
• Partner with the architecture team to ensure solutions are aligned with enterprise architecture standards.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience.
• 2 years of experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise.
• Expertise in working and developing at code-level in Java, Spring Boot, JPA, Oracle, REST.
• Proficient in working with microservices and distributed transaction management.
• Proficient in software development and testing methodologies and their effective applications using Cucumber, Junit, Selenium Automated Testing, Functional Testing, System Integration Testing, and Cypress automated testing.
• Ability to guide and coach teams on approach to achieve goals aligned against a set of strategic initiatives.
• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent.
• Proficient in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
• Experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and expertise in technology disciplines.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with building cloud-native applications (AWS, Azure, Pivotal, or other cloud platforms).
• Knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems.