Director, Payments Tech Engineering

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

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.