Director of Software Engineering-HR Domain

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As a Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within Corporate Technology – HR, Pay & Time Technology, you provide deep, hands-on technical leadership across multiple application teams while remaining close to the code. You set the engineering bar, architect and build highly scalable solutions, and drive relentless innovation—helping the firm remain at the forefront of industry trends, best practices, and technological advances.

In this role you design and build custom, highly scalable applications on AWS that power Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, and Time for the largest bank in the world. You lead engineering for a portfolio of applications that must never go down, blending modern serverless design, multi-region active-active resiliency, and AI-native development to deliver continuously across Web, Mobile, and conversational interfaces.

• Architects, builds, and operates custom, highly scalable applications on AWS using serverless design patterns, delivering mission-critical Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, and Time capabilities
• Designs and runs multi-region active-active applications engineered for continuous availability—resilient, self-healing, and built to never go down—for a large, regulated, globally distributed enterprise
• Leads hands-on development across the full stack—Web, Mobile, and conversational chat—building robust services with Java and Spring Boot, Python, and modern front-end frameworks, and setting standards for clean, secure, testable, and maintainable code
• Drives AI-native engineering: agentic development workflows, prompt and loop engineering, and AI-assisted development with Claude Code, Copilot, or similar tools to accelerate delivery while maintaining strong controls
• Builds MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers and custom agents that drive accurate, low-latency interactions with conversational platforms such as Moveworks—engineered for high accuracy and no hallucinations through grounding, tool/function calling, and guardrails
• Establishes and enforces modern engineering practices—CI/CD, test-driven development (TDD), Infrastructure as Code, Pipeline as Code, automated security scanning, and observability
• Manages and continuously innovates across a portfolio of applications, balancing rapid, iterative delivery with operational stability, security, and compliance-by-design
• Champions secure-by-design development with guardrails appropriate for a highly regulated industry, supporting controls, statutory and tax considerations, segregation of duties, and access management
• Partners with product, platform, and operations stakeholders to translate needs into pragmatic, high-quality technical solutions; hires, mentors, and grows strong engineers; and champions the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
• 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.

• 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.
• Deep, current, hands-on expertise developing on AWS with serverless design patterns (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Event Bridge, Step Functions)
• Expert in designing and operating multi-region active-active…