Director of Software Engineering

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As the Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking, Payments & Lending Innovation, 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.

• Engage with business stakeholders to break down complex and ambiguous problems into technical specifications that an engineering team can implement under your guidance.
• Deliver and own end‑to‑end cutting‑edge low latency solutions leveraging the latest technologies and the best industry practices.
• Champion engineering practices; improve the effectiveness of the Engineering teams through coaching, mentoring and resolution of impediments.
• Partner with leadership team for driving Non Functional Requirements, Modernization initiatives and controls.
• Influence peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams.
• Lead and participate in regular technical meetings, ensuring that architectural decisions align with the broader organizational goals and strategy.
• Partner with product and business groups, to drive participation, plans, timelines, dependencies and solutions to ensure successful delivery leading to desired outcomes.
• Work with CTO of Proprietary Wallets & Lending Innovation, to distill overall integration strategy and requirements to ensure technology solutions for all applications, systems and processes.
• Drive the adoption of AWS cloud technologies, enablement tools and processes for our engineering teams, as a part of integration.
• Create and maintain detailed technology roadmaps with corresponding work streams and stakeholders, ensuring all solutions and requirements are clearly understood and communicated.
• Carries governance accountability for coding decisions, control obligations, and measures of success such as cost of ownership, maintainability, and portfolio operations.

• 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.
• Extensive hands‑on experience in designing and building full stack cloud native distributed systems with high degree of availability, fault‑tolerance & scalability using Java Spring.
• Experience in handling large volume of data with Databases like Postgre
  
  SQL, Oracle is critical for the role.
• Curious and comfortable with exploring new domains with the ability to consider both the technology & product angle.
• Ability to deal with direction changing quickly, and ability to learn and establish patterns quickly.
• Understanding and experience with cloud technologies, software engineering/product engineering methods, technology best practices.
• Demonstrated prior experience influencing across highly matrixed, complex organizations and delivering value at scale.
• Experience managing competing requirements to align product prioritization with technical capacity and feasibility, balancing solution priorities between long‑term technical roadmap and short‑term execution needs.
• Understand and convey programming models, technologies, systems and API’s that are relevant for stakeholders.
• Work with product teams regularly to ensure understanding and alignment of requirements and technical solutions.

• Participate and/or lead opportunities with third parties, working to understand why and how we may integrate and leverage their capabilities.
• Experience with hiring top talent, growing careers and coaching individuals and managers to higher performance.

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad…