Senior Java Architect & Director of Software Engineering

JPMorganChase; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a deeply technical Director of Software Engineering to lead the Equity Plan Services Platform team. You will design distributed systems, own production reliability, and drive architecture decisions across Spring Boot microservices, Kafka pipelines, and AWS-native infrastructure.

You will collaborate with Business, Trading, and Operations to translate requirements into engineering solutions and communicate trade-offs with precision at scale.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts with 10+ years applied experience.
• Experience leading technologists to manage complex technical items.

Responsibilities

• Directly manages multiple engineering domains with a strategic focus on microservices and cloud infrastructure.
• Sets and scales multi-department strategy for event-driven design and cloud architecture.
• Establishes standards for microservices, cloud deployment, and automated testing.
• Oversees operations across various business lines and interfaces with senior leaders.

Skills

Java backend

Spring Boot

Python

AWS

Kafka

SQL/NoSQL data modeling

Distributed systems

CI/CD & test engineering

Communication with stakeholders

Education

10+ years software engineering experience

Tools

ECS/EKS

Lambda

Aurora

DynamoDB

S3

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a deeply technical Director of Software Engineering to lead the Equity Plan Services Platform team. You will design distributed systems, own production reliability, and drive architecture decisions across Spring Boot microservices, Kafka pipelines, and AWS-native infrastructure.

You will collaborate with Business, Trading, and Operations to translate requirements into engineering solutions and communicate trade-offs with precision at scale.