Senior Director of Software Engineering - Head of Cloud/Lake Platforms Engineering

Testing Site - JPMC; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Head of Cloud Lake, Storage, and Compute Platform Services to join our Data Platforms organization. This role leads the Data Platforms engineering efforts, driving strategic migration to scalable platforms and enabling diverse users to rapidly develop products and solutions.

You will oversee multiple departments and partner with data management, publishing, governance, and analytics teams to deliver enterprise-grade data platforms with high availability, performance,

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading technologists and cross-functional teams.
• Cloud native experience and large-scale data platforms.
• Ability to influence across matrixed organizations and deliver value.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple technology and process implementations across departments.
• Manage strategic transactional focus across areas.
• Provide leadership to teams while overseeing populations across platforms/divisions.
• Interface with senior leaders to drive consensus across objectives.
• Manage stakeholders and large cross-product collaborations.
• Influence peer leaders across business, product, and tech teams.
• Champion diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
• Lead the migration to strategic platforms and data.
• Ensure delivery and growth of enterprise-grade data platforms.

Skills

Cloud native

Leadership

Distributed systems

Data platforms

Cross-functional teams

Talent development

Education

CS/Engineering/Math or related

Tools

Spark

Informatica

DBT

REST

Java

Python

Job description

We are seeking a Head of Cloud Lake, Storage, and Compute Platform Services to join our Data Platforms organization. This team is central to our data strategy, enabling diverse users to consistently and rapidly develop products and solutions.

As a Senior Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Bank Data 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
• 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
• Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
• Lead the execution of our firm-wide migration to strategic platforms and data
• Is accountable for the delivery and growth of enterprise-grade data platforms with a focus on scalability, availability, capabilities, and performance
• Collaborate with peer teams such as Data Management, Data Publishing, and Data Governance to deliver solutions for key personas, including analysts, data scientists, data engineers, software engineers, AI/ML engineers, operators, and compliance officers
• Elevate the engineering standards within our organization through best practices, coaching, and talent development

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training, or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ year of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise and more broadly across the organization
• 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 complex projects supporting system design, testing, and operational stability
• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
• Extensive practical cloud native experience
• Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• Expertise in systems and software design for large-scale distributed data solutions
• Experience with large scale data platforms

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience working at code level
• Familiarity with data processing and development frameworks like Spark, Informatica, and DBT
• Knowledge of open table formats such as Iceberg and Delta, and their catalog solutions (e.g., Polaris, Unity)
• Proficiency in software development technologies (Java/JS/Python/REST) and methodologies (Agile/Scrum)
• Experience in AI/ML and feature engineering is a plus

This position is subject to Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. As such, an employment offer for this position is contingent on JPMorganChase’s review of criminal conviction history, including pretrial diversions or program entries.