Director of Software Engineering – Payments & AI Platform

Next Frontier Capital; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering in Consumer & Community Banking to lead multiple technology areas, guide architectural standards, and drive AI-enabled engineering initiatives across departments. You will partner with senior leaders to align strategies, ensure regulatory compliance, and advance secure, scalable payment networks.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, complex program management, and delivering enterprise-wide technology objectives in a

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts.
• 10+ years of applied software engineering experience with 5+ years in leadership roles.

Responsibilities

• Leads multiple technology and process implementations across departments to achieve firmwide technology objectives.
• Drive engineering design of core payment network capabilities through POC and initial implementations.
• Define and enforce architectural best practices, standards, and guidelines across multiple lines of business ensuring security, scalability, and regulatory compliance.
• Own the Architect of our payment network processing, including transaction authorizations, tokenization, dispute management, Fraud/Risk processing, Identity, settlement and more.
• Directly manages multiple areas with strategic transactional focus.
• Sets and scales multi-department strategy for agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation to drive firmwide objectives, including release governance, automated test modernization, resilience engineering, and incident response acceleration.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain to drive cross-domain reuse and measurable capacity unlock outcomes across departments.
• Provides leadership and high-level direction to teams while 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.

Skills

Leadership

Architectural leadership

AI/ML governance

Regulatory compliance

Cross-functional collaboration

Payments domain

Cloud native

Stakeholder management

SDLC automation

Incident response

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering in Consumer & Community Banking to lead multiple technology areas, guide architectural standards, and drive AI-enabled engineering initiatives across departments. You will partner with senior leaders to align strategies, ensure regulatory compliance, and advance secure, scalable payment networks.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, complex program management, and delivering enterprise-wide technology objectives in a