Director of Software Engineering -Payments Investigations

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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 Commercial and Investment Bank Payments & Investigations team, you will lead a technical area and drive impact across teams, technologies, and projects. You will leverage your deep expertise in software, applications, technical processes, and product management to deliver multiple complex projects and initiatives, serving as a primary decision maker and a driver of innovation and solution delivery.

Job responsibilities

• Partners with product and business groups to drive participation, plans, timelines, dependencies, and solutions to ensure successful delivery and desired outcomes
• Engages with business stakeholders to break down complex and ambiguous problems into technical specifications for engineering teams to implement under your guidance
• Delivers and owns end-to-end, cutting-edge low latency solutions leveraging the latest technologies and best industry practices
• 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.s
• Partners with leadership to drive Non Functional Requirements, modernization initiatives, and controls
• Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology teams
• Leads and participates in regular technical meetings, ensuring architectural decisions align with broader organizational goals and strategy
• Drives the adoption of AWS/internal cloud technologies, enablement tools, and processes for engineering teams as part of integration
• Creates and maintains 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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 13+ years applied experience, including 5+ years leading technologists to manage, anticipate, and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
• Extensive hands-on experience designing and building full stack cloud native distributed systems with high availability, fault-tolerance, and scalability using Java, Spring, Python, or Camunda
• Experience handling large volumes of data with databases such as PostgreSQL
• Experience leading adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering practices (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) across teams, including defining operating expectations (human-in-the-loop validation, quality gates), measuring outcomes, and ensuring secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use and control expectations in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, resiliency/security implications, and governance; ability to influence leaders on safe scaling patterns and reuse.
• Understanding and experience with cloud technologies, software engineering/product engineering methods, and technology best practices
• Demonstrated 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…