Senior Director of Software Engineering - Backend & AI

JPMorganChase; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering within Global Customer Platform in India. You will lead multiple technology areas, guide cross-functional teams, and collaborate with senior stakeholders to drive modernization and strategic technology initiatives.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, large-scale delivery, and governance across complex programs, aligning with industry best practices and future-ready architectures.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts with 10+ years of applied experience.
• 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex items.
• Experience in large-scale engineering delivery and technology transformation.
• Experience building and leading cross-functional teams of technologists.

Responsibilities

• Leads technology and process implementations across departments to achieve firmwide technology objectives.
• Directly manages multiple areas with strategic transactional focus.
• Provides leadership to teams while overseeing populations across platforms, divisions, and lines of business.
• Interfaces with senior leaders, stakeholders, and executives to drive consensus.

Skills

Cloud native

Leadership

Large-scale delivery

Cross-functional teams

System design & stability

Hiring & talent development

Mainframe modernization

Governance & risk management

Code-level experience

Executive stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

AWS (cloud platform)

CI/CD tooling

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.

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 JPMorganChase within Global Customer Platform, you lead multiple technical areas, manage the activities of multiple departments, 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.

Job Responsibilities

• Leads multiple technology and process implementations across departments to achieve firmwide technology objectives
• Directly manages multiple areas with strategic transactional focus
• Provides leadership and high-level direction to teams while frequently overseeing employee populations across multiple platforms, divisions, and lines 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
• 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

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ year of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise and more broadly across the organization
• Hands on expertise in large-scale engineering delivery, platform modernization, or technology transformation, including leadership of senior engineers/leads.
• Experience developing or leading large or cross-functional teams of technologists
• 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

• Deep mainframe modernization experience (batch/online workloads, scheduling chains, DB2/VSAM concepts, integration/messaging) and proven patterns to retire mainframe dependencies safely.
• Experience building self-service adoption enablement to reduce friction for consumer teams.
• Experience implementing automated parity validation (dual-run strategies, output comparisons, reconciliation, drift detection) and evidence-based shutdown readiness.
• Experience with governance models for large transformations (architecture authority, risk forums, release/change management cadence, KPI-driven execution).
• Partner management experience for tooling and delivery assurance.
• Experience working at code level