Platform Architecture Leader for AI-Driven Risk Features

Socket.dev; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 210,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Plano, TX seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to own the technical vision and end-to-end delivery of the Consumer and Community Banking Risk Feature Engineering Platform. You will lead multiple engineering streams and coordinate across departments to drive scalable, AI-enabled engineering and robust SDLC automation.

You will set architecture, govern data quality and lineage, and collaborate with senior leaders to align technical strategy with business goals,

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
• A demonstrated record as a technical leader who sets direction, not just execution — someone who has personally architected large‑scale platforms and can still go deep enough to earn the trust of senior engineers
• Deep architectural command of Databricks and Apache Spark at enterprise scale — Lakeflow / Delta Live Tables, Unity Catalog, PySpark, and declarative pipeline patterns
• Proven success designing and delivering large‑scale batch and real‑time data/feature platforms in production, including low‑latency serving against strict TPS / P99 SLAs
• Strong public‑cloud engineering foundation on AWS (EMR, Glue, Lambda, S3, ECS/EKS, Aurora/RDS) and infrastructure‑as‑code with Terraform
• Experience leading multi‑organization adoption of agentic AI‑enabled engineering operating models (using enterprise‑authorized tools)

Responsibilities

• Sets the multi-year technical vision and architecture for the Risk Feature Engineering Platform, and is the accountable owner for delivery, reliability, cost of ownership, controls, and portfolio operations
• Builds, develops, and holds accountable a team of engineers running product-oriented streams including the Feature Store, attribute engines & migration, and real‑time feature generation
• Serves as the definitive technical authority for the platform — resolves the hardest architecture and trade‑off decisions, sets engineering standards, and raises the technical bar of the leadership bench beneath them
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise‑authorized AI‑assisted development and automation capabilities, to drive cross‑domain reuse and measurable capacity unlock outcomes across departments
• Sets the data‑governance, data‑quality, and lineage direction across the platform and its regulatory posture, including PCI handling
• Partners directly with Databricks on platform roadmap, GA timelines, and feature parity, and aligns the Risk Feature Store with the firm's broader declarative and feature‑platform direction
• 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

Databricks & Spark

AWS Cloud

Data governance

AI/ML in engineering

SDLC automation

Tools

Databricks

Apache Spark

Terraform

Kafka

PySpark

Unity Catalog

Job description

JPMorganChase in Plano, TX seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to own the technical vision and end-to-end delivery of the Consumer and Community Banking Risk Feature Engineering Platform. You will lead multiple engineering streams and coordinate across departments to drive scalable, AI-enabled engineering and robust SDLC automation.

You will set architecture, govern data quality and lineage, and collaborate with senior leaders to align technical strategy with business goals,