Step into a leadership role where your vision shapes the future of technology. As a Director of Software Engineering, you’ll drive innovation, empower teams, and make a lasting impact on our organization’s success.
As a Director of Software Engineering at JPMorganChase within the Corporate Technology team, you lead a technical area and drive impact across teams, technologies, and projects. You utilize your expertise in software, applications, technical processes, and product management to deliver multiple complex initiatives. You serve as a primary decision maker for your teams, driving innovation and solution delivery while fostering collaboration and growth.
Job responsibilities
- Provide visionary leadership and strategic direction for development and delivery of products, applications, and technologies
- Serve as a hands-on engineering leader, guiding design patterns, coding standards, architecture decisions, and platform best practices
- Sets direction and governance for agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation within a technical area to drive measurable improvements in speed, quality, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-orchestrated delivery workflows, release readiness controls, automated test modernization, and incident triage acceleration), while establishing guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, traceability, and reuse across teams.
- Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation and support capacity unlock initiatives at scale.
- Translate complex technical challenges and emerging trends into actionable insights for senior leadership
- Design and implement scalable, reusable software frameworks to enhance efficiency and collaboration
- Build strong partnerships across business, product, and technology groups
- Influence and manage relationships with stakeholders to achieve shared goals
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience
- Tenured technologist operating within Financial and Technology domains for 15+ years
- Experience leading adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering practices (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) across teams, including defining operating expectations (human-in-the-loop validation, quality gates), measuring outcomes, and ensuring secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs.
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use and control expectations in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, resiliency/security implications, and governance; ability to influence leaders on safe scaling patterns and reuse.
- Directly manage and provide high-level direction to teams working on cloud-native solutions, microservices, and user interface experiences
- Deep understanding of software engineering best practices, system design, testing, and operational stability
- Hands-on experience in Basel implementations, regulatory transformations, and advanced technologies like Gen AI
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Experience with Databricks and other cloud-native platforms
- Familiarity with agile methodologies
- Knowledge of emerging industry trends
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
- 10+ years of applied software engineering experience
- 15+ years as a tenured technologist in financial and technology domains
- Experience leading adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering practices across teams
- Experience defining human-in-the-loop validation, quality gates, and outcome measurements
- Experience ensuring secure handling of sensitive AI inputs and outputs
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use and engineering workflow governance
- Ability to influence leaders on safe AI scaling and reuse patterns
- Experience managing teams delivering cloud-native solutions, microservices, and user interface experiences
- Deep understanding of software engineering practices, system design, testing, and operational stability
- Hands-on experience with Basel implementations and regulatory transformations
- Experience with Generative AI
- Experience with Databricks and other cloud-native platforms
- Familiarity with agile methodologies
- Knowledge of emerging industry trends
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 — Medical, dental, vision, and mental-health coverage are broad, with wellness incentives, on-site or virtual care, and an EAP offering coaching and counseling. Plan materials emphasize accessible options, including multiple medical choices and tools to manage costs.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave extends up to 16 weeks for all parents, supplemented by paid Critical Caregiver Leave. Family resources include backup childcare via Bright Horizons, lactation support and milk-shipping, family-building assistance, and even a free five-month SNOO rental for newborns.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with an annual company match and automatic pay credits for most employees, with a legacy pension available to earlier hires. An Employee Stock Purchase Plan at a 5% discount further supports long-term savings.
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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