Director of Software Engineering - Executive Director

J.P. MORGAN; Scotland; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial leader based in Scotland is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead the Engineering's Observability Platforms team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in developing and managing cross-functional software engineering teams, particularly in observability platforms such as IBM Netcool or Prometheus. This position emphasizes innovation in AIOps, where the candidate will influence technical strategy for multi-domain applications. A commitment to diversity and an inclusive workplace culture is essential.

Benefits

Diverse and inclusive workplace

Strategic career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience leading diverse teams in large-scale observability platforms.
• Expertise in software engineering concepts and applications.
• Practical knowledge in system design and application development.

Responsibilities

• Leads technology and process implementations within the observability platforms.
• Delivers technical solutions for multiple business units.
• Makes budget and tactical operation-related decisions.

Skills

Experience developing or leading cross-functional teams

Hands-on practical experience in system design

Demonstrated knowledge of software applications installation and configuration automation

Solid understanding of Agile methodologies

Tools

IBM Netcool

AWS infrastructure

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Job Description

If you are a software engineering leader ready to take the reins and drive impact, we've got an opportunity just for you.

As a Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Engineer's Observability Platforms team, you lead a technical area and drive impact within teams, technologies, and projects firm wide. 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 AIOps innovation and solution delivery.

Job Responsibilities

• Leads technology and process implementations to achieve functional technology objectives in the Observability Platforms space, providing essential services for Site Reliability Engineers, Operations and Engineers across the whole firm
• Delivers technical solutions that can be leveraged across multiple businesses and domains, this will include AIOps strategy for the future.
• Work with vendor evaluations to decide roadmap for future strategic products, design and drive implementation
• Makes decisions that influence teams' resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
• Carries governance accountability for coding decisions, control obligations, and measures of success such as cost of ownership, maintainability, and portfolio operations
• Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams
• Champions the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience developing or leading cross-functional teams of technologists, ideally in large scale Observability Platforms (example products IBM Netcool, (Watson CloudPak AiOps), Tivoli, SCOM, SMARTS, Dynatrace, Splunk, Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana or Messaging systems for telemetry transport like Kafka, OTEL)
• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and expert applied experience. In addition, advanced experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications installation and configuration automation, through automation as code principles.
• Demonstrated knowledge and implementation of AWS infrastructure or other cloud design and implementation

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and expert applied experience. In addition, advanced experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise.
• Experience of researching and developing AIOps or ML solutions
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Experience with one or more observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk etc.

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.

About The Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.