Executive Director of Portfolio & Execution — Employee Platforms E&A

JPMorganChase; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking an Executive Director for Portfolio & Execution within the central Engineering & Architecture function. You will lead portfolio governance, provide executive-ready reporting, and drive transformation across E&A.

You will partner with senior leaders to turn strategy into coherent programs and oversee their delivery with disciplined planning and cadence. You will champion engineering excellence, AI-enabled ways of working, and architecture governance while ensuring

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and running outcome-based governance and operating cadences (OKRs/KPIs).
• Ability to translate strategy into roadmaps, milestones, and governance reporting.
• Strong analytical and metrics-driven decision making.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated E&A portfolio and translate strategy into roadmaps, priorities, milestones, dependencies, benefits, and risks.
• Run the E&A operating cadence with reviews, risk management, escalations and decision governance.
• Produce executive-ready reporting and maintain a single source of truth across E&A.
• Standardize executable programs from strategies with clear outcomes and governance checkpoints.
• Partner to define outcomes, metrics, and reporting for engineering performance without daily execution ownership.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to measure adoption, productivity, and quality, reporting outcomes through governance.
• Shape architecture direction, roadmaps, and governance to increase reuse and reduce fragmentation.
• Identify overlaps and manage portfolio rationalization and benefits realization.

Skills

Portfolio governance

Executive leadership

OKRs/KPIs governance

Metrics-driven management

DORA literacy

Executive communication

Influence & collaboration

AI literacy

Job description

Job Description

Join Employee Platforms as an Executive Director, Portfolio & Execution within the central Engineering & Architecture (E&A) function. This role reports solid line to the Head of Engineering & Architecture (E&A) and serves as the primary leader for portfolio governance, execution transparency, and operating cadence across E&A.

Join Employee Platforms as an Executive Director, Portfolio & Execution within the central Engineering & Architecture (E&A) function. This role reports solid line to the Head of Engineering & Architecture (E&A) and serves as the primary leader for portfolio governance, execution transparency, and operating cadence across E&A.
You will partner with the Head of E&A and E&A senior leaders, including the Head of Engineering, the Head of Architecture, E&A domain leaders (core engineering, data architecture, AI architecture, architecture governance), and dotted-line Chief Architects across Employee Platforms towers. You will help these leaders organize strategy into coherent programs and then drive and monitor their books of work through disciplined planning, metrics, governance, and executive-ready reporting.

Job Responsibilities

• Own the integrated E&A portfolio, translating strategy into roadmaps, annual priorities, quarterly OKRs, milestones, dependencies, benefits, and risks.
• Run the E&A operating cadence, including portfolio and delivery health reviews, dependency and risk management, escalations, and decision governance.
• Produce executive-ready reporting on progress, outcomes, risks, and decisions, maintaining a single source of truth across E&A.
• Standardize how E&A strategies become executable programs with clear outcomes, success measures, delivery plans, and governance checkpoints.
• Engineering excellence (DORA): Partner with Core Engineering and enablement teams to define outcomes, standardize metrics and instrumentation, govern performance reviews, and report progress and corrective actions without owning daily execution.
• Engineering Communities of Practice: Partner with delivery teams to define success measures for adoption, engagement, reuse, productivity, and quality, and report outcomes through E&A governance.
• Architecture direction and governance: Partner with the Head of Architecture and Chief Architects to organize direction, roadmaps, reference patterns, and governance that increase reuse, improve consistency, and reduce fragmentation, with transparent adoption and outcomes.
• Reduce duplication and waste by identifying overlaps, sequencing rationalization decisions, tracking reuse and consolidation, and reporting realized benefits.
• AI-enabled ways of working: Help leaders plan, sequence, and measure responsible AI adoption in engineering and architecture workflows, partnering with control and risk stakeholders as needed.
• Manage firmwide initiatives affecting Employee Platforms Engineering and Architecture, such as post-quantum encryption readiness.
  

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• 10+ years of experience in portfolio/program leadership, strategy & execution/COO, transformation, operating model, or governance roles in a large, complex technology organization.
• Demonstrated ability to design and run outcome-based governance and operating cadences (OKRs/KPIs), including dependency management, issue/risk management, decision tracking, and executive reporting.
• Metrics-driven management capability, including the ability to define measurable outcomes, standardize metric definitions, ensure instrumentation, and drive actions based on results.
• Working fluency in modern engineering delivery practices and enterprise architecture concepts, sufficient to partner credibly with senior engineering and architecture leaders.
• DORA literacy, including the ability to operationalize DORA metrics within governance and reporting, and to drive action-oriented performance reviews.
• Strong executive communication skills, including concise written materials and the ability to synthesize complex initiatives into clear plans and decision-ready options.
• Influence and collaboration skills to drive alignment and outcomes across a matrixed organization without direct authority.
• Basic AI skills (working fluency): AI evaluation literacy, effective collaboration with technical SMEs, practical prompting for drafting/synthesis/analysis, and responsible AI awareness to support safe adoption in partnership with control and risk stakeholders.
  

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Experience operating in regulated enterprises with strong control, risk, and governance expectations.
• Experience establishing and scaling governance cadences across engineering and architecture portfolios with measurable outcomes.
• Experience driving portfolio rationalization, reuse, simplification, and benefits realization reporting across complex technology estates.
• Familiarity with practical AI governance concepts (e.g., appropriate use, access controls, auditability, and transparency) as they relate to AI-enabled ways of working in engineering and architecture.
  

ABOUT US

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

About The Team

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