Sr Director of Software Engineering - Head of Data Engineering for Home & Auto Lending Technology

JPMorgan Chase - Plano, TX

Full-time - Senior

Plano, TX

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

As a Senior Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase, you will lead the Data Engineering team for Home & Auto Lending Technology. This role involves overseeing multiple technical areas, managing various departments, and collaborating across technical domains to drive the adoption of innovative technologies and best practices. You will play a crucial role in shaping the future of financial services by influencing senior stakeholders and ensuring the successful implementation of technology objectives across the organization.

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 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
• Experience developing or leading large or cross-functional teams of technologists
• Demonstrated experience influencing across highly matrixed, complex organizations and delivering value at scale
• Experience leading complex projects supporting system design, testing, and operational stability
• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
• Extensive practical cloud native experience
• Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• Proven experience in designing and developing large scale data pipelines for batch & stream processing
• Strong understanding of Data Warehousing, Data Lake, ETL processes and Big Data technologies
• Expertise with public cloud platforms and modern data processing & engineering tools
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working at code level
• Experience with Data Governance, Data Privacy & Subject Rights, Data Quality & Data Security