Senior Director of Software Engineering

J.P. MORGAN; Scotland; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading financial services firm as a Senior Director of Software Engineering. You'll lead technical areas, drive engineering practices, and influence cross-functional teams. This role requires extensive experience in software engineering and leadership in complex organizations. Your expertise will help shape the future of our engineering function, ensuring high standards and quality execution.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in Software Engineering required.
• Hands-on coding experience in any IDE is essential.
• Experience leading complex projects and managing senior relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple technology and process implementations across groups.
• Provide leadership and direction to teams across the line of business.
• Manage stakeholders and complex projects with large collaborations.

Skills

Software Engineering

AI coding tools

Cloud native experience

Education

Computer Science

Mathematics

Tools

AWS

K8S

CI/CD tools

Job description

Job Description

Your opportunity to make a real impact and shape the future of financial services is waiting for you. Let’s push the boundaries of what's possible together.

As a Senior Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Infrastructure Platforms (IP) team, you lead multiple technical areas, directing the activities of multiple groups, and collaborate across technical domains. Your expertise is applied cross-functionally to drive the adoption and implementation of technical methods within various teams and aid the firm in remaining at the forefront of industry trends, best practices, and technological advances.

This role is for a senior engineer to help define and drive our engineering working practices and standards for engineering across Infrastructure Platforms (IP), an engineering group with over 5000 engineers delivering software and infrastructure to our partners and customers. Reporting to the Head of Engineering Practices for IP, you'll be key to leading transformation in our engineering function so that we are truly world class in quality and execution.

Job responsibilities

• Defines and leads multiple technology and process implementations across groups to achieve firmwide technology objectives, working in a matrix model
• Direct multiple areas with strategic transactional focus, influencing across peers to align and execute
• Focused on establishing strategic goals and the lower level details of how we develop our platforms, services and products, close to the ground so that you can identify opportunities and drive real change but also versed in our big picture goals.
• Practically engaged with the technical nuance of building infrastructure systems, our agile engineering processes (e.g. Coding Standards, Definition of Done, Design Processes, Agile PTX) and our controls and standards for technology development across Infrastructure Platforms (IP).
• Provides leadership and high-level direction to teams across our line of business
• Acts as the primary interface with senior leaders, stakeholders, and executives, driving consensus across competing objectives
• Manages multiple stakeholders, complex projects, and large cross-product collaborations
• Work closely with the IP wide Engineering Practices leads, our IP architecture team and our risk partners to deliver business enabling solutions that comply with controls
• Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams
• Drive change at scale, focused on outcomes alongside culture

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts and expert applied experience
• Recent hands on coding experience in any IDE is required along with deep expertise developing code in any language
• Experience of AI coding tools and using LLMs
• Experience developing or leading large or cross-functional teams of technologists and managing senior relationships
• Experience using IAC tools will be useful as will practical AWS and K8S platform knowledge
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools is required as the JPMC Developer toolchain (JET) will be foundational to your work
• Demonstrated prior experience influencing across highly matrixed, complex organizations and delivering value at scale
• Experience leading complex projects supporting system design, testing, and operational stability
• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
• Extensive practical cloud native experience
• Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Financial services controls and standards experience would be an advantage

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

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.