Director of Software Engineering - Fintech, Scalable Platforms

Testing Site - JPMC; Madrid; Sur place; EUR 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

J.P. Morgan Personal Investing is expanding its Brokerage service in Madrid to provide self-investing through mobile and web apps. A Director of Engineering will lead several high-impact teams, shape technical strategy and deliver secure, scalable systems aligned with business goals.

You will report to the Senior Director of Engineering and oversee teams in Madrid and London, driving governance, architecture, and incident management while hiring and developing leaders to achieve excellence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with 10+ years in technical leadership.
• Strong product and business mindset with consumer-facing product exposure.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Solid background in modern architectures (distributed systems, cloud-native, event-driven) and DevOps.
• Proven track record leading agile teams delivering high-availability systems.
• Excellent coaching, feedback and conflict-resolution skills.

Responsabilités

• Translate strategy into requirements, prioritize roadmaps and ensure on-time delivery of features.
• Enable cross-functional alignment within Brokerage teams and across divisions with clear processes and docs.
• Oversee architectural decisions for scalability, reliability, performance and cost efficiency.
• Lead compliance and governance with Controls stakeholders for all software deliveries.
• Promote platform thinking, microservices boundaries and data contracts with debt payoff plans.
• Oversee engineering costs, vendor management and SLAs.
• Hire, develop and retain engineering managers and senior ICs; manage headcount planning.
• Grow engineering managers and engineers with career pathways and feedback.
• Foster collaboration, accountability and operational excellence.
• Own incident management, on-call strategy and post-incident reviews to improve reliability.

Connaissances

Software engineering

Technical leadership

Product mindset

Stakeholder management

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

DevOps

Agile scalability

Coaching

Communication

Outils

AWS

JVM

Kafka

Relational DBs

NoSQL DBs

Description du poste

J.P. Morgan Personal Investing is expanding its Brokerage service in Madrid to provide self-investing through mobile and web apps. A Director of Engineering will lead several high-impact teams, shape technical strategy and deliver secure, scalable systems aligned with business goals.

You will report to the Senior Director of Engineering and oversee teams in Madrid and London, driving governance, architecture, and incident management while hiring and developing leaders to achieve excellence.