Senior Manager of Software Engineering - Java

When you mentor and advise multiple technical teams and move financial technologies forward, it’s a big challenge with big impact. You were made for this. 

As a Senior Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Banking in Architecture & Engineering team, you serve in a leadership role by providing technical coaching and advisory for multiple technical teams, as well as anticipate the needs and potential dependencies of other functions within the firm. As an expert in your field, your insights influence budget and technical considerations to advance operational efficiencies and functionalities.

In this role, you will create next generation of API Platform for Chase and you will lead and grow various aspects of API Platform and provide leadership to advance our API product strategy so that our partner developers, internal developers, and business decision-makers can innovate and ship products for our customers faster. 

Job responsibilities

• Provide overall direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level software engineers that work on basic to moderately complex tasks
• Taking decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
• Ensures successful collaboration across teams and stakeholders. Identifies and mitigates issues to execute a book of work while escalating issues as necessary
• Provides input to leadership regarding budget, approach, and technical considerations to improve operational efficiencies and functionality for the team
• Creates a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect for team members and prioritizes diverse representation. Create scalable and resilient API platform, services, and tooling to support all stages of API lifecycle.
• Advocate for operational excellence and engineering best practices (such as automated testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency and scalability)
• Contribute to the development of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies.
• Create durable, reusable API solutions that are leveraged across teams and functions. Champion the firm’s culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on team leadership concepts and 5+ years applied experience. In addition, 2 + years of experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
• Experience leading teams of technologists
• Ability to guide and coach teams on approach to achieve goals aligned against a set of strategic initiatives
• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent. In-depth knowledge of the services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience. 
• Experience designing and building software solutions to solve complex large scale distributed systems.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more general purpose programming languages (e.g., Java, Go).
• Experience with Cloud and cloud technologies e.g., AWS, Spring Cloud. Experience with container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with products related to APIs, SDKs, first party and third-party Developer Platforms and IAM (Identity and Access Management).
• Experience in API Management platforms, API Gateways, API Catalog and a deep understanding of API technologies – REST, GraphQL, gRPC. 
• In-depth knowledge of HTTP, HTTP Proxies, API Proxy, web servers e.g., Envoy, NGINX, HAProxy.
• Experience working with API Gateways such as Apigee, Kong, AWS API Gateway. Experience in integration technologies (e.g., Kafka), data pipelines and data engineering. Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering. 
• Practical cloud native experience. Experience working at code level (preferred)