Director of Software Engineering - Payments Technology

Testing Site - JPMC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase seeks a Director of Software Engineering in New York to lead a technical area within Consumer and Community Banking. The role focuses on guiding teams, architectures, and cloud-enabled delivery to achieve business outcomes.

Responsibilities include establishing engineering standards, driving modernization, and collaborating with senior stakeholders. Strong experience in Java/Spring, distributed systems, and data stores is essential for success.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
• 10+ years of applied software engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business and product stakeholders to translate needs into clear technical requirements and delivery plans.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of low-latency, scalable solutions using modern engineering practices.
• Establish and champion engineering standards, including mentoring and removing delivery impediments.
• Drive non-functional requirements, modernization efforts, and risk/control considerations with leadership.
• Influence and align peer leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology.
• Facilitate architecture discussions to ensure decisions align to strategy and goals.
• Coordinate delivery across teams by managing plans, timelines, dependencies, and integration requirements.
• Define and evolve an integration strategy across applications, systems, and processes.
• Drive cloud adoption and enablement across engineering teams as part of broader integration efforts.
• Create and maintain technology roadmaps and workstreams, communicating progress to stakeholders.
• Provide governance for engineering decisions and delivery measures, including maintainability and cost of ownership.

Skills

Cloud-native architectures

Java

Spring

Distributed systems

PostgreSQL

Oracle

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Cloud adoption

Technical governance

Education

Formal software engineering training

Tools

PostgreSQL

Oracle

Java

Spring

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 Engineeringat JPMorganChase within 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

• Partner with business and product stakeholders to translate complex, ambiguous needs into clear technical requirements and delivery plans.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of low-latency, scalable solutions using modern engineering practices.
• Establish and champion engineering standards, including coaching, mentoring, and removing delivery impediments.
• Drive non-functional requirements, modernization efforts, and risk/control considerations in partnership with leadership.
• Influence and align peer leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology.
• Facilitate technical forums and architecture discussions to ensure decisions align to broader strategy and goals.
• Coordinate delivery across teams by managing plans, timelines, dependencies, and integration requirements.
• Define and evolve an integration strategy and associated technical requirements across applications, systems, and processes.
• Drive cloud adoption and enablement across engineering teams as part of broader integration efforts.
• Create and maintain technology roadmaps and workstreams, communicating progress and decisions to stakeholders.
• Provide governance for engineering decisions and delivery measures, including maintainability, cost of ownership, and operational health.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 10+ years of applied software engineering experience. 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams, including managing and resolving complex technical challenges within your domain.
• Experience leading large engineering organizations and delivering a critical product area with multiple time-sensitive deliverables.
• Extensive experience designing and building cloud-native, distributed systems with high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability using Java and Spring.
• Experience working with high-volume data systems and relational databases such as PostgreSQL and Oracle.
• Working knowledge of cloud technologies and modern software/product engineering methods and best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across matrixed organizations and deliver outcomes at scale.
• Experience balancing competing priorities by aligning product needs with technical capacity, feasibility, and roadmap considerations.
• Ability to communicate programming models, systems, and APIs effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Previous experience in the payments domain, including tokenization

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience working at code level