Senior Manager of Software Engineering - Java, AWS

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase & Co. is seeking a Senior Manager of Software Engineering in Hyderabad to lead multiple engineering teams in delivering scalable, secure, and performant backend services.

You will mentor engineers, influence budgets, and drive AI-assisted development practices across the SDLC. Responsibilities include setting standards for code quality, collaborating with architects, and ensuring delivery commitments align with business goals while advancing operational efficiencies and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with leadership responsibilities
• Experience guiding technologists to solve complex technical items
• Experience leading multi-team adoption of AI-assisted development tools and governance
• Strong understanding of responsible AI, data sensitivity, resiliency and secure scaling
• Experience in hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
• Practical cloud-native experience and distributed services development

Responsibilities

• Provide direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of engineers from entry to mid-level on tasks of varying complexity
• Make budgeting and resource decisions, influence operations and execution of processes
• Set operating practices for AI-assisted engineering and SDLC/TLM automation across multiple teams
• Utilize enterprise tooling to drive efficiency and capacity unlock initiatives
• Collaborate across teams and stakeholders to resolve issues and align with business needs
• Provide input to leadership on budget, approach, and technical considerations
• Mentor on Java backend development, cloud services, and secure coding practices
• Support security and regulatory expectations through governance and best practices

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

Budget management

Team guidance

Strategic planning

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

Java

Spring

Spring Boot

Microservices

Web Services (SOAP/REST)

SQL

Oracle RDBMS

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Kafka

Cassandra

Cloud Foundry

Domain Driven Design

Event Driven Architecture

Job description

When you mentor and advise multiple technical teams and move financial technologies forward, it’s a big challenge with big impact. You were made for this.

As a Senior Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorganChase within the Consumer and Community Banking, you serve in a leadership role by providing technical coaching and advisory for multiple technical teams, as well as anticipate the needs and potential dependencies of other functions within the firm. As an expert in your field, your insights influence budget and technical considerations to advance operational efficiencies and functionalities.

Job responsibilities

• Provide overall direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level software engineers that work on basic to moderately complex tasks
• Accountable for decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
• Sets and scales operating practices for enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering and SDLC/TLM automation across multiple teams to improve delivery speed, quality, and operational outcomes; establishes measurable expectations (e.g., throughput, defect reduction, reliability) and ensures consistent validation, security, resiliency, and reuse of proven patterns.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to drive efficiency and support capacity unlock initiatives across teams, prioritizing reuse of existing firm technology assets.
• Ensures successful collaboration across teams and stakeholders. Identifies and mitigates issues to execute a book of work while escalating issues as necessary
• Provides input to leadership regarding budget, approach, and technical considerations to improve operational efficiencies and functionality for the team
• Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Micro Services, Web Services SOAP/ReST, SQL, Oracle RDBMS, Design Patterns, Java Messaging, Cloud Foundry, Domain Driven Design, Event Driven Architecture, Docker, Kubernetes, No SQL, Kafka, Cassandra, Test Driven Development
• Develop and enhanceJava-based backend services to support high-volume transaction processing. Build and operatesolutions using AWS services (e.g., Aurora Postgres, ECS/Fargate, EC2 as applicable) with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Contribute to solution designby partnering with senior engineers/architects and participating in design reviews to ensure implementations align with technical standards and business needs.
• Use AI-assisted coding tools(e.g., GitHub Copilot, where approved) to improve development efficiency, testing, and code quality.
• Follow and promotestrong engineering practices (code reviews, CI/CD, testing, observability, documentation) and continuously improve the codebase. Collaborate with product managers and stakeholdersto clarify requirements and translate them into technical deliverables. Support security and compliance requirementsby applying secure coding practices and adhering to Community Banking standards and applicable regulatory expectations

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience . In addition, 2 + years of experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
• Experience leading teams of technologists. Ability to guide and coach teams on approach to achieve goals aligned against a set of strategic initiatives
• Experience leading multi-team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and delivery tools, including defining governance/ways of working (human-in-the-loop validation, quality gates), measuring outcomes, and ensuring secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, resiliency/security implications, and control expectations; ability to coach managers/leads and influence leaders on safe scaling patterns.
• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
• In-depth knowledge of the services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience.
• Demonstrated experience withJava backend development, object-oriented design, and common design patterns.
• Experience withAWS(e.g., Aurora Postgres, ECS/Fargate, Glue and/or Airflow) and building distributed services.
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to learn quickly in a complex domain.
• Solid communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across engineering and product teams.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Financial services and/or connected commerce experience is a plus, but not required.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., Copilot) is a plus(confirm tool approval for your environment before use).
• Experience working at code level (preferred)