Senior Director, Cloud-Native Financial Eng.

Next Frontier Capital; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a highly technical Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead the Equity Plan Services platform. You will own production reliability, design distributed systems, and drive architecture decisions spanning Spring Boot microservices, Kafka pipelines, and AWS-native infrastructure.

You will translate business requirements for engineering solutions, communicate trade-offs precisely, and oversee multiple departments to achieve speed, scalability, and cost-to-serve goals.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering with 10+ years of applied experience.
• 5+ years leading technologists and managing multi-team initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Directs multiple engineering domains with a strategic focus on microservices and cloud infra.
• Sets multi-department strategy for event-driven design and cloud architecture.
• Establishes standards for microservices, deployment, and automated testing.
• Leads cross-domain integration and performance improvements.
• Interfaces with senior leaders to align technical objectives with business goals.

Skills

Java backend

Spring Boot

Python

AWS

Kafka

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Communication with stakeholders

Education

10+ years software exp.

Leadership of technologists

Tools

Spring Boot

Kafka

AWS

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a highly technical Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead the Equity Plan Services platform. You will own production reliability, design distributed systems, and drive architecture decisions spanning Spring Boot microservices, Kafka pipelines, and AWS-native infrastructure.

You will translate business requirements for engineering solutions, communicate trade-offs precisely, and oversee multiple departments to achieve speed, scalability, and cost-to-serve goals.