Content Sr Manager of Software Engineering

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Columbus, OH seeks an experienced Engineering Manager to mentor multiple teams building enterprise Java full‑stack applications, with React and Next.js, and AWS cloud services.

You will drive AI‑assisted development, ensure secure coding, govern multi‑team delivery, and align engineering efforts with architectural and security standards. The role emphasizes leadership, talent development, and collaboration with stakeholders to accelerate delivery of scalable, resilient

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts plus 5+ years of applied experience.
• 2+ years of experience leading technologists and guiding cross‑functional teams.
• A track record of coaching teams to meet strategic initiatives.
• Experience leading multi‑team adoption of AI‑assisted development and governance.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use, security, resiliency, and data handling.
• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing software talent.
• Expert coding in Java Full Stack, React, and Next.js.
• Leadership in an Agile environment with varying levels of engineers.

Responsibilities

• Provide direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of software engineers.
• Accountable for decisions influencing resources, budget, and processes.
• Set operating practices for AI‑assisted engineering and SDLC automation across teams.
• Apply SDLC tools to drive efficiency and capacity unlock initiatives.
• Ensure collaboration across teams and stakeholders.
• Identify and mitigate issues to deliver a book of work.
• Provide input to leadership on budget and technical strategy.
• Develop and enhance a content platform using Java Full Stack, React, Next.js, and a headless content API.
• Manage the team in building secure external‑facing apps, using secure coding and AI agents to optimize code.
• Design solutions with modularity, performance, resiliency, and non‑functional criteria in mind.
• Design, develop, and deploy scalable cloud‑native apps on AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, API Gateway).

Skills

Leadership

Java Full Stack

React

Next.js

Mentoring

Hiring

Governance

Agile

Code review

Security

Tools

AWS

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.

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
• Develop and enhance content platform using Java Full Stack technologies, React, and Next.js, enabling content life cycle using headless content API across digital channels
• Manage team in building secure external facing applications implementing secure coding practices and efficiently us AI agents to optimize code and solve friction points
• Design solutions keeping modular design, performance, resiliency, scalability and other non-functional criteria in mind
• Design, develop and deploy scalable cloud native applications using AWS including EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS and API Gateway

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 managing 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
• Management experience with varying levels of Software Engineers
• Expert level in coding in Java Full stack, React, and Next.js
• Strong hands on AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS and API Gateway)
• Experience building secure external facing applications with secure coding practices
• Strong Technical Leadership and mentoring experience with varying levels of software engineers in an Agile environment

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with Content Management Systems
• Experience in a very large Financial Services or Banking Technology environment