Director Software Engineering - Core Banking

As a Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within Consumer and Community Banking Core Deposits line of business, 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

• Manage agile software delivery teams partnering with the Product owners to drive technology delivery.
• Deliver solutions leveraging modern technologies including cloud backed APIs and microservices utilizing distributed database technologies.
• Assess and manage a strong pool of talent in order to build a diverse and inclusive team and culture within the organization
• Manage all aspects of technology delivery.
• Provide leadership and high-level direction to teams while frequently overseeing employee populations across multiple areas
• Act as the primary interface with senior leaders, stakeholders, and executives, driving consensus across competing objectives
• Manage multiple stakeholders, complex projects, and large cross-product collaborations
• Influence peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams
• Champion the firm’s culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition,  5+ year  of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise and more broadly across the organization. 
• Experience developing or leading large or cross-functional teams of technologists
• Ability to work collaboratively in teams and develop meaningful relationships to achieve common goals.
• Experience with developing and managing large scale platforms with strong understanding of complex distributed systems running on hybrid infrastructure (on premises, private and private cloud environments)
• Expertise building and operating large scale high performance environments with distributed systems and cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Expertise with enterprise design patterns and industry best practices with experience using modern technology (e.g., Java, Cassandra, Kafka) and design patterns (e.g., microservices, APIs).
• Experience with building, leading and mentoring technology teams and next level leaders within the organization. 
• Ability to work in a dynamic, agile environment leading/working with geographically distributed teams.
• Experience with implementing industry standard cybersecurity & technology controls. 
• Excellent communication skills and ability to present to and communicate effectively with key stakeholders across product, technology, data and design
• Strong organizational and management skills.

  Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with core banking systems, in particular deposit systems

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.