Job Description

If you are a software engineering leader ready to take the reins and drive impact, we've got an opportunity just for you.

As a Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within Consumer and Community Banking, Payments Technology, you lead a technical area and drive impact within teams, technologies, and projects across departments. 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.

Job Responsibilities

Partner with business and product stakeholders to translate complex, ambiguous needs into clear technical requirements and delivery plans.
Lead end-to-end delivery of low-latency, scalable solutions using modern engineering practices.
Establish and champion engineering standards, including coaching, mentoring, and removing delivery impediments.
Drive non-functional requirements, modernization efforts, and risk/control considerations in partnership with leadership.
Influence and align peer leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology.
Facilitate technical forums and architecture discussions to ensure decisions align to broader strategy and goals.
Coordinate delivery across teams by managing plans, timelines, dependencies, and integration requirements.
Define and evolve an integration strategy and associated technical requirements across applications, systems, and processes.
Drive cloud adoption and enablement across engineering teams as part of broader integration efforts.
Create and maintain technology roadmaps and workstreams, communicating progress and decisions to stakeholders.
Provide governance for engineering decisions and delivery measures, including maintainability, cost of ownership, and operational health.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 10+ years of applied software engineering experience. 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams, including managing and resolving complex technical challenges within your domain.
Experience leading large engineering organizations and delivering a critical product area with multiple time-sensitive deliverables.
Extensive experience designing and building cloud-native, distributed systems with high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability using Java and Spring.
Working knowledge of cloud technologies and modern software/product engineering methods and best practices.
Demonstrated ability to influence across matrixed organizations and deliver outcomes at scale.
Experience balancing competing priorities by aligning product needs with technical capacity, feasibility, and roadmap considerations.
Ability to communicate programming models, systems, and APIs effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Ability to integrate AI-driven solutions into software engineering workflows to optimize development efficiency, automate tasks, and elevate product quality.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

Experience working at code level
Previous experience in the payments domain, including tokenization

ABOUT US

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

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.

About The Team

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.

Director of Software Engineering - Payments Technology