As a Sr. Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Audit Tech team in Corporate Technology, you drive innovation, mentor tech talent, and translate complex data into powerful insights. You'll oversee our tech ecosystem spanning internal and public clouds, optimizing for peak performance. Utilize your in-depth knowledge of software, applications, technical processes, and product management to drive multiple complex projects and initiatives, while serving as a primary decision maker for your teams and be a driver of innovation and solution delivery.
If you're passionate about Audit tech, thrive on challenges, and excel at translating business requirements into elegant technical solutions, we want you! Join us to shape the future of audit software engineering.
Job responsibilities
- Lead and manage multiple software engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement
- Define strategy, vision, alignment to architecture standards and data strategy , use of AI to advance envisioned transformation and technology selection.
- Partner with senior stakeholders, business users and product leadership, tech leadership across Audit & Corporate Technology to build strong partnerships
- Collaborate with business users to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions
- Oversee the full software development lifecycle for concurrent projects, ensuring timely delivery within budget
- Drive the adoption of best practices in software development, including Agile methodologies and DevOps practices
- Mentor, coach, and develop software engineers and development leads to enhance their technical and leadership skills
- Establish and implement software development standards, methodologies, and quality assurance processes
- Manage resource allocation, budgets, and strategic planning for the software engineering department
- 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.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 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
- Strong background in financial technology and understanding of DATA Intensive applications
- Expertise in programming languages: Java, Python, Angular and GenAI
- Experience with cloud technologies, particularly AWS
- Proficiency in Oracle database management and optimization
- Proven track record of successfully leading large-scale software development projects
- Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies and DevOps practices
- Demonstrated ability to work and communicate effectively with business stakeholders and technical teams and be an influential SME
- Experience in managing budgets and resources for software development projects
- 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
- The ideal candidate would have deep working knowledge of Public Cloud, Native-Cloud applications, Microservices, Databases, Data Lakes.
- Ensure all software development adheres to financial industry regulations and security standards
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 on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience
- 5+ years leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items
- Strong background in financial technology and understanding of data-intensive applications
- Expertise in Java programming
- Familiarity with Python and Angular
- Experience with cloud technologies, particularly AWS
- Proficiency in Oracle database management and optimization
- Proven track record of successfully leading large-scale software development projects
- Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies and DevOps practices
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with business stakeholders and technical teams
- Experience in managing budgets and resources for software development projects
- Experience leading multi-organization adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering operating models and defining governance
- Deep understanding of responsible AI risk, controls, resiliency, and security expectations at scale
- Deep working knowledge of public cloud, native-cloud applications, microservices, databases, and data lakes
- Ensure software development adheres to financial industry regulations and security standards
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.
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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.
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