Senior Director of Software Engineering - Payments Technology

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

Job summary

JPMorganChase seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to set the technology strategy for payments digital channels and to partner with product, design, risk, and cybersecurity leaders. You will drive modern, scalable platforms, ensure resiliency, and raise engineering excellence while balancing speed and controls.

You will lead multi-year roadmaps, advance cloud-native and microservices adoption, and build high-performing teams that align with regulatory and governance requirements

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.
• Experience delivering mission-critical financial platforms, including payments and distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud-native apps, microservices, APIs, event-driven design, and container platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering organization for payments digital channels with a multi-year roadmap.
• Drive platform modernization using cloud-native architecture and microservices.
• Own end-to-end engineering delivery ensuring availability, performance, and production readiness.
• Translate business outcomes into technology roadmaps and measurable milestones.
• Develop senior engineering leaders and foster inclusion, accountability, and growth.
• Ensure security, regulatory compliance, data governance, and risk management.
• Influence enterprise architecture for scalable global growth across lines of business.
• Set and scale AGI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation standards; establish guardrails.
• Apply SDLC tools including AI-assisted development to drive cross-domain reuse.

Skills

Cloud-native architecture

Microservices

Kubernetes

AI-enabled engineering

Regulatory compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

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

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 our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

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

Base Pay/Salary

Jersey City,NJ $232,750.00 - $325,000.00 / year