As a Senior Director of Software Engineering at JPMorganChase within the Asset & Wealth Management, Equity Plan Services Platform Team, you lead multiple technical areas, manage the activities of multiple departments, and collaborate across technical domains. Your expertise is applied cross-functionally to drive the adoption and implementation of technical methods within various teams and aid the firm in remaining at the forefront of industry trends, best practices, and technological advances.
We are looking for a deeply technical, hands-on Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead and work shoulder-to-shoulder with our engineering team on the Equity Plan Services platform — a high-throughput, regulated financial system handling trade execution, RSU/ESPP release processing, cash movement orchestration, and client reporting at scale. You will write code, design distributed systems, own production reliability, and drive architecture decisions across the stack — from Spring Boot microservices and Kafka event pipelines to AWS-native infrastructure and SQL/NoSQL data layers. Equally important is your ability to communicate with precision: working directly with Business, Trading, and Operations teams to translate requirements into engineering solutions and explain technical trade-offs without losing the room.
Job responsibilities
- Directly manages multiple engineering domains with a strategic focus on microservices and cloud infrastructure.
- Sets and scales multi-department strategy for event-driven system design and cloud architecture using enterprise-authorized tools.
- Establishes standards for microservices architecture, cloud deployment strategies, and automated testing.
- Applies knowledge of cloud and infrastructure tools to drive cross-domain integration.
- Utilizes enterprise-authorized automation capabilities for measurable performance improvements.
- Provides leadership and high-level direction to engineering teams across multiple platforms.
- Oversees operations across various business lines, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
- Acts as the primary interface with senior leaders and stakeholders, driving consensus across technical objectives.
- Sets and scales multi-department strategy for agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) to drive firmwide objectives (speed, scalability, reliability, and cost-to-serve), including portfolio-level standards for AI-orchestrated delivery workflows, release governance, automated test modernization, resilience engineering, and incident response acceleration; establishes guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, traceability, and reuse.
- Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to drive cross-domain reuse and measurable capacity unlock outcomes across departments.
- Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
- Experience developing or leading large or cross-functional teams of technologists
- Expert-level backend engineering in Java (Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Hibernate/JPA) and/or Python; strong SQL and data modeling across relational and NoSQL systems.
- Deep AWS experience: ECS/EKS, Lambda, Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, Glue, CloudWatch — able to design, deploy, and operate cloud-native systems end-to-end.
- Hands-on Apache Kafka experience: topic design, consumer group management, exactly-once delivery, and stream processing patterns.
- Solid grasp of distributed systems fundamentals: consistency models, CAP trade-offs, idempotency, distributed transactions, and failure modes.
- Strong CI/CD and test engineering practice: you build the pipelines and write tests alongside the team.
- Excellent communicator — able to move fluidly between engineering teams and business/operations stakeholders in the same conversation.
- Experience leading multi-organization adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering operating models (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment), including defining governance (human-in-the-loop decisioning, quality gates), measurement frameworks, and secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs across teams.
- Deep understanding of responsible AI risk, controls, and resiliency/security expectations at scale, with demonstrated ability to advise senior leaders on safe adoption, portfolio governance, and reuse-first strategies.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Proven experience delivering in a regulated environment (financial services preferred) with working knowledge of audit, entitlement, and compliance requirements.
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
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.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 10+ years of applied experience
- 5+ years of experience leading technologists and solving complex technical problems
- Experience developing or leading large or cross-functional teams of technologists
- Expert-level backend engineering experience in Java with Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Hibernate/JPA, and/or Python
- Strong SQL and data modeling experience across relational and NoSQL systems
- Deep AWS experience with ECS/EKS, Lambda, Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, Glue, and CloudWatch
- Hands-on Apache Kafka experience, including topic design, consumer groups, exactly-once delivery, and stream processing
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, consistency models, CAP trade-offs, idempotency, distributed transactions, and failure modes
- Strong CI/CD and test engineering experience, including building pipelines and writing tests
- Excellent communication skills across engineering, business, and operations stakeholders
- Experience leading multi-organization adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering operating models, governance, measurement, and secure handling of sensitive inputs and outputs
- Deep understanding of responsible AI risk, controls, resiliency, and security expectations at scale
- Experience delivering in a regulated environment, preferably financial services, with knowledge of audit, entitlement, and compliance requirements
JPMorganChase Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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.
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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.
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