Senior Director of Software Engineering (Infrastructure)

Next Frontier Capital; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple technical areas in Card Technology. You will drive CI/CD, release governance, and environment automation, while guiding architecture and cross-team collaboration across domains.

Responsibilities include defining environment lifecycles, empowering teams with self-service provisioning, and strengthening software supply chain controls. Strong Java/Python, leadership, and communication are essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in tech leadership.
• Ownership of CI/CD, release engineering at scale.
• Strong Java and Python technical depth and architectural guidance.
• Proven experience with environment management and automation.
• Understanding of SDLC, versioning, and deployment patterns.
• Experience driving reliability with measurable outcomes.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders in ambiguous settings.
• Collaboration with SRE, security, and risk teams.
• Hands-on platform experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines.
• Experience with software supply chain controls.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise CI/CD, release governance, and environment automation.
• Align cross-portfolio teams to build scalable pipeline frameworks and components.
• Translate needs into architecture, create reference architectures and standards.
• Define environment lifecycle management and self-service provisioning.
• Coach teams, set direction, and ensure milestones.
• Collaborate with SRE, security, and risk teams for resilience and compliance.
• Enforce release governance, artifact management, and versioning processes.
• Drive platform reliability, observability, and deployment metrics reporting.
• Modernize pipelines with automated quality gates and rollback capabilities.
• Provide hands-on leadership in Java and Python as needed, optimize build performance.

Skills

Java

Python

Architecture

Leadership

CI/CD

Platform

SRE

Security-by-design

Communication

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab pipelines

Azure DevOps

Argo

Spinnaker

Harness

Flux

Artifactory

Nexus

Maven

Gradle

Python packaging

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 Card Technology organization, 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

• Deliver the enterprise vision and multi-year roadmap for continuous integration and continuous delivery, release engineering, and environment automation, including operating model, standards, and measurable outcomes (speed, stability, quality, developer experience).
• Lead cross-portfolio platform engineering delivery by aligning teams to build scalable pipeline frameworks, reusable components, and automation services that standardize delivery patterns.
• Translate business and engineering needs into end-to-end architecture and engineering solutions, producing reference architectures and standards, documenting trade-offs, and driving alignment through architecture reviews and governance.
• Define and deliver environment lifecycle management across development, test, stage, and pre-production, enabling standardized, repeatable, self-service provisioning through infrastructure as code and configuration automation.
• Coach and lead engineering teams through execution by setting technical direction and success metrics, running design reviews, removing blockers, and ensuring delivery milestones are met.
• Partner with site reliability engineering and production management, security, and risk and control to ensure resilience, auditability, compliance, and security-by-design are embedded across tooling and processes.
• Establish and enforce release governance and engineering standards, including change controls, artifact management, versioning, dependency management, and approval workflows.
• Drive operational excellence for continuous integration and continuous delivery and environment platforms through reliability engineering, observability, incident readiness, continuous improvement, and clear platform performance reporting (lead time, deployment frequency, mean time to recovery, pipeline reliability, environment availability, adoption).
• Modernize pipelines with automated quality and security gates (testing, policy checks, scanning), progressive delivery patterns where appropriate, and automated rollback capabilities.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership in Java and Python where needed (critical components, integrations, prototypes), and optimize build and release performance (caching, parallelization, dependency resolution) while strengthening software supply chain controls (secrets, integrity, access, signing, and provenance).

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience; 5+ years leading technologists to solve complex technical problems within your domain.
• Demonstrated ownership of continuous integration and continuous delivery and release engineering at scale (platform approach, templates and frameworks, standards, adoption across teams).
• Strong technical depth in Java and Python (ability to guide architecture and implementation, review designs and code, and unblock teams).
• Proven expertise in environment management and environment automation (provisioning, configuration, lifecycle, repeatability).
• Strong understanding of the software development life cycle, branching strategies, artifact repositories, versioning, and deployment and release patterns.
• Experience driving reliability, observability, and operational readiness for platform services with measurable operational outcomes (lead time, deployment frequency, mean time to recovery, availability, adoption).
• Ability to influence and align senior stakeholders with clear communication and crisp decision‑making in ambiguous environments.
• Experience partnering with site reliability engineering and production management, security, and risk and control to embed resilience, auditability, compliance, and security‑by‑design across tooling and processes.
• Hands‑on or strongly proven platform experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery and release tooling (for example, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab pipelines, Azure DevOps).
• Experience with continuous delivery and orchestration platforms (for example, Argo, Spinnaker, Harness, Flux) and artifact and dependency management (for example, Artifactory, Nexus; Maven and Gradle; Python package management).
• Experience implementing development, security, and operations controls and software supply chain controls (for example, static application security testing, dynamic application security testing, software composition analysis, software bill of materials generation, secrets management, artifact signing, and provenance).

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with container platforms and orchestration (for example, Kubernetes, OpenShift) and large‑scale distributed runtime environments.
• Experience building standardized “golden paths” and self‑service developer platforms that improve developer onboarding and consistency.
• Experience designing and scaling reusable pipeline frameworks and components across multiple portfolios or lines of business.
• Experience implementing progressive delivery patterns (for example, canary releases and blue‑green deployments) and automated rollback at scale.
• Demonstrated success modernizing legacy continuous integration and continuous delivery and environment tooling with minimal disruption and clear adoption outcomes.
• Experience improving build and release performance using caching, parallelization, and dependency optimization across large codebases.
• Background delivering platforms in regulated and controlled environments with strong change discipline and evidence‑based audit readiness.

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, lifelong 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. Direct multiple technical areas, manage the activities of multiple departments, and collaborate across technical domains