Director of Engineering, Investment Platform & AI

JP Morgan Chase; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan Personal Investing is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead an Investment Platform area and multiple high-impact teams.

You will drive the product roadmap, shape technical strategy, mentor engineering managers, and deliver scalable, secure systems in a fintech context. You will partner with Product, Business, Marketing and Operations to translate strategy into executable roadmaps, ensuring alignment with risk, controls and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer plus 10+ years in technical leadership.
• Strong product and business mindset with experience of high-profile consumer products.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong background in modern architectures (distributed systems, cloud-native, event-driven), SDLC, and DevOps practices.
• Proven track record leading and scaling agile teams delivering high-availability systems.
• Experience designing and adopting agentic AI-enabled development practices with governance and audits.
• Understanding of responsible AI use, security, resiliency, and risk-based governance.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product to define and drive strategy across multiple time horizons.
• Translate strategy into requirements, prioritise roadmaps, remove blockers, and ensure on-time feature delivery.
• Oversee architectural decisions for scalability, reliability, performance and cost efficiency.
• Promote platform thinking, reuse and best practices while managing technical debt.
• Oversee engineering costs, vendor management and ROI with compliance and SLAs.
• Hire and develop engineering leaders and structure teams for autonomy.
• Foster collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement in engineering culture.
• Own incident management and post-incident reviews to improve reliability.
• Support risk, compliance and audits and ensure alignment with policies.
• Architect AI-enabled workflows with guardrails for validation and security.

Skills

Technical leadership

Product mindset

Stakeholder management

Distributed systems

Cloud native

DevOps practices

Agile scaling

Agentic AI development

Responsible AI governance

Cross-border leadership

Tools

AWS

JVM

Kafka

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

Job description

J.P. Morgan Personal Investing is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead an Investment Platform area and multiple high-impact teams.

You will drive the product roadmap, shape technical strategy, mentor engineering managers, and deliver scalable, secure systems in a fintech context. You will partner with Product, Business, Marketing and Operations to translate strategy into executable roadmaps, ensuring alignment with risk, controls and regulatory requirements.