Director of Software Engineering : CCB Risk Decisions

Testing Site - JPMC; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Director of Software Engineering in the United States to lead a technical area and drive impact across departments. You will guide teams, technologies, and projects, serving as a primary decision maker and delivering innovative solutions and scalable systems.

The role requires extensive experience in core banking tech, cloud-native architectures, and enterprise platforms, with a strong hands-on background and influence across time zones and cultures.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with leadership.
• Deep expertise in core banking systems and payment processing.
• Strong hands-on background in Java, Spring, JMS, and Web services.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (Oracle, Cassandra, Cockroach).
• Proficiency in cloud-native architectures, microservices, DevOps, and CI/CD.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum and SDLC.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders across time zones.
• Strategic thinker who can execute with resilience.

Responsibilities

• Identify and implement innovative solutions to boost efficiency for high-volume, low-latency apps.
• Ensure systems are designed for scalability, resilience, and interoperability using cloud-based technologies.
• Leads technology and process implementations to achieve functional technology objectives.
• Makes decisions that influence resources, budgets, and execution of processes.
• Carries governance accountability for coding decisions, control obligations, and measures of success.
• Delivers technical solutions that can be leveraged across multiple businesses.
• Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and tech teams.
• Champions the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Skills

Java

Spring

JMS

Web services

JSON

Swagger

Cloud platforms

DevOps

CI/CD

SDLC

Agile/Scrum

Microservices

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Tools

Oracle

Cassandra

CockroachDB

Hadoop

Snowflake

Job description

If you are a software engineering leader ready to take the reins and drive impact, we’ve got an opportunity just for you.

As a Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking, you lead a technical area and drive impact within teams, technologies, and projects across departments. Utilize your in-depth knowledge of software, applications, technical processes, and product management to drive multiple complex projects and initiatives, while serving as a primary decision maker for your teams and be a driver of innovation and solution delivery.

Job responsibilities

• Identify and implement innovative solutions and drive efficiency for high volume, low latency applications.
• Ensure systems are designed for scalability, resilience, and interoperability using cloud-based technologies.
• Leads technology and process implementations to achieve functional technology objectives.
• Makes decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures.
• Carries governance accountability for coding decisions, control obligations, and measures of success such as cost of ownership, maintainability, and portfolio operations.
• Delivers technical solutions that can be leveraged across multiple businesses and domains.
• 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
• Deep expertise in core banking systems, payment processing, regulatory requirements, and financial services technology best practices.
• Strong hands-on engineering foundation in Java, Spring, JMS, Webservices integration patterns leveraging JSON, Swagger, etc.
• Expertise in both SQL and NoSQL technologies such Oracle, Cassandra, Cockroach, and big data platforms (Hadoop, Snowflake, etc.)
• Proficient with modern frameworks, microservices architecture, cloud-native technologies, and DevOps practices; experienced in Agile/Scrum, CI/CD pipelines, and contemporary SDLC.
• Good understanding and hands on experience with cloud-based software deployments including AWS, Azure, and others.
• Demonstrated success implementing enterprise ready systems and platforms and continuous improvement methodologies with measurable gains in team productivity and delivery quality.
• Proven track record leading complex, multi-workstream initiatives with distributed global teams.
• Exceptional stakeholder management across time zones and cultures; adept at influencing senior executives, collaborating globally with peers, and inspiring high-performing teams.
• Combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution; thrives in fast-paced, dynamic environments; brings adaptability, structured problem-solving, and resilience.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience working at code level.
• Experience in implementing enterprise Decision and analytics platforms.