Lead Payments Technology - Executive Director

JP Morgan Chase; Guarulhos; On-site; BRL 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan Chase is seeking an Executive Director to lead the Payments Technology team for Brazil, driving modernization and alignment with global strategy. You will guide the local technology footprint, collaborating with global teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions that enable business growth.

You will set direction, manage stakeholders, and oversee critical programs while ensuring regulatory alignment and seamless platform operations across the local franchise.

Qualifications

• 15+ years as a technology leader in banking.
• 15+ years hands-on experience with agile methodologies.
• 5+ years as a Site Reliability Engineer.
• 5+ years building distributed applications with modern tech.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end payments technology for the local business with global tech teams.
• Coordinate with local business leadership and stakeholders.
• Provide technical guidance to business teams, contractors and vendors.
• Address regulatory changes impacting existing applications.
• Lead core platform modernization and adoption of global platforms.
• Act as Technology Owner of local platforms through local teams.
• Collaborate with global tech teams supporting the local franchise.
• Oversee BAU activities and local initiatives affecting platforms.
• Engage with third-party vendors and SaaS providers as needed.
• Drive adoption and use of AI models and tools.

Skills

Technology leadership

Agile methodologies

Site Reliability Engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud technologies

Kubernetes

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Grafana

Dynatrace

Spring

Job description

Lead Payments Technology - Executive Director

Job Information

• Job Identification 210800703
• Job Category Software Engineering
• Business Unit Commercial & Investment Bank
• Posting Date 11/05/2026, 01:42 PM
• Job Schedule Full time

Job Description

Lead Payments Technology for Brazil driving the transformation and modernization of technology footprint in line with the JPMorgan payments technology strategy to continue enable business growth.

As a Senior Leader of Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, you are an integral part of a global technology team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way.

Through critical thinking, your capabilities and contributions , drive significant business impact, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job Responsibilities

• Management of the end to end payments technology in support of the local business through the support of local and global technology teams
• Manage the local demand and the relationship with the local business leadership and stakeholders
• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Address country regulatory agenda requiring changes in existing applications
• Lead the Core platform modernization and adoption of global platforms
• Serve as Technology Owner of local platforms through local technology teams
• Work with and Influence global technology teams that support the local franchise
• Manage BAU activities and local initiatives affecting local platforms, including last mile clearing connectors
• Interface with Third Party technology vendors inclusive of Software as a Service providers as required
• Drive the adoption and usage of Ai models and tools

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Technology savviness, local market knowledge, influencing skills both with local and global teams, communication skills, sense of urgency, operational excellence, focus in execution.
• 15years of experience as a technology leader working within the banking industry.
• 15 years of hands-on experience using agile methodologies.
• 5+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer.
• 5+ years of experience building distributed applications using modern technology (Cloud, Microservices, Web Services, APIgee, Kubernetes, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Gemfire, Spring, Oracle, SQL Server, Linux, Java, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace).
• Knowledge of infrastructure components including network firewalls, switches, routers, DR-pairs.
• Exposure to disaster recovery planning and test execution.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience supporting mission-critical systems in the financial services industry, particularly in payments technology, is a big plus.

About Us

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.

About the Team

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.