Senior Director of Software Engineering - Payments Technology

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 233,000 - 325,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Jersey City is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering for Payments Technology. You will set the tech strategy for digital channels, partnering with product, design, operations, risk, cybersecurity and architecture to deliver scalable platforms and strong controls.

You will lead a multi-year roadmap, drive modernization, ensure availability and regulatory compliance, and develop senior engineers while promoting inclusion and excellence across the organization.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience.
• Experience delivering mission-critical, high-volume financial platforms, including payments and workflows.
• Experience designing and operating cloud-native apps with microservices, APIs and event-driven architectures.
• Proven ability to lead modernisation initiatives and improve developer productivity.
• Strong understanding of scalability, resiliency, performance, observability and operational excellence.
• Experience with regulated financial systems, risk, cybersecurity, governance and compliance.
• Ability to influence outcomes in matrixed organisations through partnerships with multiple stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering organization responsible for payments digital channels and multi-year delivery roadmap.
• Drive platform modernization using cloud-native architecture, micro-frontends, microservices, and APIs.
• Own end-to-end engineering delivery for payments channels, ensuring availability and production readiness.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate business outcomes into technology roadmaps and investments.
• Build senior engineering leaders and foster inclusion, accountability and growth.
• Ensure security, resiliency, compliance, data governance and risk management.
• Influence architecture decisions to enable global growth across lines of business.
• Set strategy for AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation with guardrails and governance.

Skills

Cloud-native architecture

Microservices

APIs

Event-driven design

Kubernetes

Public/Private cloud

Software engineering leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Senior Director of Software Engineering - Payments Technology

Jersey City, NJ, United States

Job Information

• Job Identification 210774559
• Job Category Software Engineering
• Business Unit Commercial & Investment Bank
• Posting Date 08/10/2026, 06:21 PM
• Locations 545 Washington Blvd, Jersey City, NJ, 07310, US
• Job Schedule Full time
• Job Shift Day
• Base Pay/Salary Jersey City,NJ $232,750.00-$325,000.00

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 Commercial and Investment Bank Payments Technology team, you will set the technology strategy and execution roadmap for digital channels. You will partner closely with product, design, operations, risk, cybersecurity, architecture, and business leaders to deliver scalable platforms, strengthen operational resiliency, and raise engineering excellence. You will build a culture where teams move fast with strong controls, simplify complex technology estates, and deliver measurable outcomes for customers and the firm.

Job responsibilities

• Lead the engineering organization responsible for payments digital channels, setting strategy, priorities, and a multi-year delivery roadmap
• Drive platform modernization using cloud-native architecture, micro-frontend patterns, microservices, event-driven design, and well-governed application programming interfaces
• Own end-to-end engineering delivery for payments digital channels and approval workflows, ensuring strong availability, performance, operational readiness, and production stability
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business outcomes into technology roadmaps, investment plans, and measurable execution milestones
• Build and develop senior engineering leaders and teams, fostering a culture of inclusion, accountability, continuous improvement, and talent growth
• Ensure solutions meet firm standards for security, operational resiliency, regulatory compliance, data governance, and technology risk management
• Influence enterprise architecture and shared capability decisions to enable scalable global growth across lines of business
• 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.

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
• Demonstrated experience delivering mission-critical, high-volume financial platforms, including payments, transaction processing, workflow orchestration, and distributed systems
• Extensive experience designing and operating cloud-native applications using microservices, application programming interfaces, event-driven architectures, container platforms such as Kubernetes, and public or private cloud environments
• Proven ability to lead large-scale modernization initiatives, including legacy transformation, platform engineering, and improvements to developer experience and productivity
• Strong understanding of non-functional engineering disciplines including scalability, resiliency, performance, observability, disaster recovery, and operational excellence
• Experience leading teams delivering regulated financial systems with strong knowledge of technology risk, cybersecurity, audit, governance, and regulatory expectations
• Proven ability to influence outcomes in highly matrixed organizations through effective partnership with product, architecture, operations, risk, cybersecurity, compliance, and business stakeholders
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline
• 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.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline
• Experience modernizing payment initiation platforms at global scale across multiple geographies and regulatory environments
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and large-scale cloud adoption programs
• Experience applying artificial intelligence to improve engineering productivity and quality across the software development life cycle

About Us

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

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 ourFAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

About the Team

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.