Senior Director of Software Engineering

Next Frontier Capital; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Chase in New York seeks a Director of Software Engineering to own and guide large-scale cloud-native systems, driving architecture decisions and mentoring engineers toward high performance.

You will partner with product, technology, and business leaders to deliver scalable solutions, manage non-functional requirements, and advance modernization initiatives across the organization.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience.
• 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage complex technical items within your domain.

Responsibilities

• Engage with business stakeholders to break down complex problems into technical specifications for engineering teams.
• Deliver end-to-end low latency solutions leveraging latest technologies and best industry practices.
• Coach and mentor engineering teams to improve effectiveness and resolve impediments.
• Partner with leadership to drive Non Functional Requirements and modernization initiatives.
• Influence stakeholders across business, product and technology teams.
• Lead and participate in technical meetings to ensure architectural alignment with organizational goals.
• Collaborate with product and business groups to drive plans, timelines and dependencies for successful delivery.
• Work with CTO to distill integration strategy and requirements for all applications and processes.
• Drive adoption of AWS cloud technologies and enablement tools for engineering teams.
• Create and maintain detailed technology roadmaps with work streams and stakeholders.
• Govern coding decisions, control obligations, and measures of success such as cost of ownership and maintainability.

Skills

Software architecture

Leadership

Cloud native distributed systems

Java Spring

Data management (PostgreSQL, Oracle)

Adaptability

Cloud technologies

stakeholder communication

Education

Formal software engineering training

Tools

AWS Cloud

Databases

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Engage with business stakeholders to break down complex and ambiguous problems into technical specifications that an engineering team can implement under your guidance.
• Deliver and own end-to-end cutting-edge low latency solutions leveraging the latest technologies and the best industry practices
• Champion engineering practices; Improve the effectiveness of the Engineering teams through coaching, mentoring and resolution of impediments
• Partner with leadership team for driving Non Functional Requirements, Modernization initiatives and controls
• Influence peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams
• Lead and participate in regular technical meetings, ensuring that architectural decisions align with the broader organizational goals and strategy.
• Partner with product and business groups, to drive participation, plans, timelines, dependencies and solutions to ensure successful delivery leading to desired outcomes
• Work with CTO of Proprietary Wallets & Lending Innovation, to distill overall integration strategy and requirements to ensure technology solutions for all applications, systems and processes
• Drive the adoption of AWS cloud technologies, enablement tools and processes for our engineering teams, as a part of integration
• Create and maintain detailed technology roadmaps with corresponding work streams and stakeholders, ensuring all solutions and requirements are clearly understood and communicated
• Carries governance accountability for coding decisions, control obligations, and measures of success such as cost of ownership, maintainability, and portfolio operations

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 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.
• Extensive hands‑on experience in designing and building full stack cloud native distributed systems with high degree of availability, fault‑tolerance & scalability using Java Spring.
• Experience in handling large volume of data with Databases like PostgreSQL, Oracle is critical for the role.
• Curious and comfortable with exploring new domains with the ability to consider both the technology & product angle
• Ability to deal with direction changing quickly, and ability to learn and establish patterns quickly
• Understanding and experience with cloud technologies, software engineering/product engineering methods, technology best practices.
• Demonstrated prior experience influencing across highly matrixed, complex organizations and delivering value at scale
• Experience managing competing requirements to align product prioritization with technical capacity and feasibility, balancing solution priorities between long‑term technical roadmap and short‑term execution needs
• Understand and convey programming models, technologies, systems and API’s that are relevant for stakeholders
• Work with product teams regularly to ensure understanding and alignment of requirements and technical solutions

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Participate and/or lead opportunities with third parties, working to understand why and how we may integrate and leverage their capabilities
• Experience with hiring top talent, growing careers and coaching individuals and managers to higher performance

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifewood relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans

Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We’re proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most‑used digital solutions – all while ranking first in customer satisfaction. Director of Software Engineering at JPMorganChase within the Consumer and Community Banking, Payments & Lending Innovation