Overview
As a Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within Infrastructure Platforms, you will lead a technical area and drive impact across teams, technologies, and projects. Leveraging your deep expertise in software engineering design, architecture, and technical solutions, you will oversee multiple complex projects and initiatives, serve as the primary decision maker for your teams, and champion innovation and solution delivery. Your leadership will be instrumental in advancing engineering excellence, modernizing enterprise applications, and implementing AI-enabled practices across the organization.
Job responsibilities
- Apply knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities.
- Set direction and governance for agentic AI-enabled engineering, driving measurable improvements in speed, quality, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-orchestrated delivery workflows, release readiness controls, automated test modernization, and incident triage acceleration). Establish guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, traceability, and reuse across teams.
- Lead technology and process implementations to achieve functional technology objectives.
- Make decisions that influence team resources, budgets, tactical operations, and the development of software applications.
- Carry governance accountability for coding decisions, control obligations, and success measures such as cost of ownership, maintainability, and portfolio operations.
- Deliver technical solutions that can be leveraged across multiple businesses and domains.
Influence peer leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology teams.
- Formal training or certification in software engineering and 10+ years of applied experience, including 5+ years leading technologists to solve complex challenges.
- Deep expertise in designing, developing, and modernizing large-scale enterprise applications with emphasis on scalability, resiliency, security, performance, and maintainability.
- Strong hands-on development experience in Python and other programming languages, with aptitude for quickly adopting new technologies.
- Advanced knowledge of modern software architecture (microservices, distributed systems, API-first, event-driven, cloud-native, domain-driven design, enterprise integration).
- Practical experience with AI-driven engineering, including agentic AI frameworks, GenAI applications, AI-assisted tools, prompt engineering, and MCP-based integrations.
- Demonstrated leadership in adopting agentic AI-enabled engineering practices, setting operating standards, measuring outcomes, and ensuring secure handling of sensitive data.
Proven ability to lead and develop cross-functional teams, including hiring and recognizing talent.
- Experience building full-stack applications using Python, ReactJS, responsive design principles, and reusable component-based architectures.
- Experience with compute platforms such as Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native engineering practices.
- Experience designing and implementing AI-powered solutions, agent orchestration frameworks, MCP-enabled integrations, RAG architectures, and enterprise-scale automation platforms.
- Passion for continuous learning, technology modernization, mentoring engineers, and driving innovation through AI-enabled engineering practices.
JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification in software engineering
- 10+ years of applied software engineering experience
- 5+ years leading technologists through complex challenges
- Experience designing, developing, and modernizing large-scale enterprise applications
- Expertise in scalability, resiliency, security, performance, and maintainability
- Strong hands-on development experience in Python and other programming languages
- Advanced knowledge of microservices, distributed systems, API-first, event-driven, cloud-native, domain-driven design, and enterprise integration architectures
- Experience with AI-driven engineering, agentic AI frameworks, GenAI applications, AI-assisted tools, prompt engineering, and MCP-based integrations
- Experience leading agentic AI-enabled engineering practices and secure sensitive-data handling
- Ability to lead and develop cross-functional teams, including hiring and recognizing talent
- Experience building full-stack applications with Python and ReactJS
- Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native engineering practices
- Experience designing AI-powered solutions, agent orchestration frameworks, MCP integrations, RAG architectures, and enterprise automation platforms
- Passion for continuous learning, modernization, mentoring engineers, and AI-enabled innovation
JPMorganChase Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about JPMorganChase and has not been reviewed or approved by JPMorganChase.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is considered comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision, alongside wellness and mental health resources. Some locations add onsite health centers and related wellbeing support.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k)-type savings plan and related financial benefits, with options such as employee stock purchase participation. Financial planning resources are also highlighted to support long-term savings.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave of 16 weeks for birth or adoption is available for all parents. Child care and back-up child care resources further reinforce family support.
JPMorganChase Insights
What We Do
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products. Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com. ©2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.
Why Work With Us
Our technologists work on a diverse range of solutions that include strategic technology initiatives, big data, mobile, electronic payments, machine learning, cybersecurity, enterprise cloud development, and other state-of-the-art technologies.
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