Senior Director of Software Engineering

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 260,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in New York seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple technical areas within Connected Commerce Technology. You will manage departments, coordinate cross-domain initiatives, and drive adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices across teams.

The role requires extensive leadership of complex programs, governance, and security considerations, with collaboration across senior executives and stakeholders to shape the future of financial services technology.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 10+ years of applied experience.
• Experience leading large, cross-functional technologist teams.
• Proven ability to influence across matrixed organizations and deliver value at scale.
• Experience leading adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering operating models, governance and measurement frameworks.
• Deep understanding of responsible AI risk, controls, and resiliency/security expectations.
• Experience leading complex projects supporting system design, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent.
• Extensive practical cloud-native experience.

Responsibilities

• Leads multiple technology and process implementations across departments to achieve firmwide technology objectives
• Directly manages multiple areas with strategic transactional focus
• Sets and scales multi-department strategy for agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation to drive firmwide objectives, including standards for AI-driven delivery workflows, release governance, automated test modernization, resilience engineering, and incident response acceleration
• Applies knowledge of SDLC tools to drive cross-domain reuse and measurable capacity unlock outcomes
• Provides leadership and high-level direction to teams while overseeing employee populations across multiple platforms and divisions
• 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 business, product, and technology teams

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional teams

AI-enabled engineering

SDLC automation

Stakeholder management

Cloud native

Governance

Strategic planning

People management

Job description

Your opportunity to make a real impact and shape the future of financial services is waiting for you. Let's push the boundaries of what's possible together.

As a Senior Director of Software Engineering at JPMorganChase within the Connected Commerce Technology team, you lead multiple technical areas, manage the activities of multiple departments, and collaborate across technical domains. Your expertise is applied cross-functionally to drive the adoption and implementation of technical methods within various teams and aid the firm in remaining at the forefront of industry trends, best practices, and technological advances.

Job Responsibilities

• Leads multiple technology and process implementations across departments to achieve firmwide technology objectives
• Directly manages multiple areas with strategic transactional focus
• Sets and scales multi-department strategy for agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) to drive firmwide objectives (speed, scalability, reliability, and cost-to-serve), including portfolio-level standards for AI-orchestrated delivery workflows, release governance, automated test modernization, resilience engineering, and incident response acceleration; establishes guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, traceability, and reuse.
• 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.
• Provides leadership and high-level direction to teams while frequently overseeing employee populations across multiple platforms, divisions, and lines of business
• 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

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
• Experience developing or leading large or cross-functional teams of technologists
• Demonstrated prior experience influencing across highly matrixed, complex organizations and delivering value at scale
• Experience leading multi-organization adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering operating models (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment), including defining governance (human-in-the-loop decisioning, quality gates), measurement frameworks, and secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs across teams.
• Deep understanding of responsible AI risk, controls, and resiliency/security expectations at scale, with demonstrated ability to advise senior leaders on safe adoption, portfolio governance, and reuse-first strategies.
• Experience leading complex projects supporting system design, testing, and operational stability
• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
• Extensive practical cloud native experience