Sr Manager of Software Engineering

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Manager of Software Engineering in Bengaluru to lead and coach multiple engineering teams advancing AI-assisted development and automation across the SDLC. The role requires strong Java and cloud skills and a track record in delivering complex software with scale.

You will influence budgets and technical choices, drive collaboration with stakeholders, and mentor engineers to meet strategic initiatives in a financial services setting.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• 2+ years of experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items
• Experience leading teams of technologists to guide and coach towards strategic goals
• Experience leading multi-team adoption of AI-assisted development and delivery tools with governance
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows and security considerations
• Experience with Java, AWS EKS, AWS ECS in production environments
• Cloud training or certification and automation/continuous delivery expertise
• Proficiency across SDLC with agile methods including CI/CD, resiliency, security
• Ability to guide and coach teams towards strategic initiatives
• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent

Responsibilities

• Provide direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of engineers
• Make decisions influencing resources, budget, and processes
• Set operating practices for AI-assisted engineering and SDLC automation across teams
• Lead adoption of AI-assisted development tools and measure outcomes
• Ensure collaboration across teams and stakeholders
• Identify and mitigate issues to deliver a book of work
• Provide input to leadership on budget and technical priorities

Skills

Java

AWS EKS

AWS ECS

Leadership

Mentoring

AI-assisted dev

Cloud architecture

Education

Software engineering degree

Cloud certification

Tools

Jenkins

Git

CI/CD pipelines

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 Asset and Wealth Management, 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

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.
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security
• Experienced developer with a skillset that includes Java , AWS EKS, AWS ECS
• Formal cloud training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience. Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle. Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security
• Ability to guide and coach teams on approach to achieve goals aligned against a set of strategic initiatives
• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience working at code level (preferred)