Senior Manager of Software Engineering

Testing Site - JPMC; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 260,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase seeks a Senior VP Software Engineering to provide strategic leadership and hands-on technical oversight for complex software initiatives in the Business Access and tools domain within the CCB SMB organization.

You will drive architecture, delivery, and operational excellence across distributed systems and cloud platforms, partnering with cross-product teams to build secure, scalable, and resilient solutions delivering measurable business impact.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of applied software engineering experience and 2+ years leading technologists.
• Expert-level development in Java/J2EE and Spring Boot; strong front-end proficiency.
• Proficiency in Python for tooling, automation, and services.
• Strong experience with AWS services and cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design and development of new systems; modernize architectures and remediation strategies.
• Collaborate across product, engineering, and platform teams to meet business outcomes and reliability objectives.
• Develop proofs-of-concept to validate approaches, de-risk decisions, and accelerate alignment.
• Communicate status, trade-offs, and risk to senior management; drive transparency and accountability.
• Identify opportunities to automate remediation and improve operational stability.
• Operate in an agile environment; set standards for engineering excellence and delivery quality.
• Lead pilots for emerging technologies and quantify impact and fit.
• Coach and mentor teams to build next-level leaders and succession depth.
• Ensure secure-by-design and resilience across the SDLC.

Skills

Java/J2EE

Spring Boot

Python

AWS

Distributed systems

SQL databases

CI/CD

Security

Observability

Leadership

Mentoring

Education

Formal training/certification in software engineering concepts

Tools

Kafka

React

Angular

Job description

As a Senior VP Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Bank (CCB) SMB organization, you will provide strategic leadership and hands-on technical oversight for complex software initiatives in the Business Access and tools domain. You will drive architecture, delivery, and operational excellence across distributed systems and cloud platforms, partnering with cross-product teams to build secure, scalable, and resilient solutions that deliver measurable business impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design and development of new systems; deep dive into existing architectures and processes to propose pragmatic modernization paths and remediation strategies.
• Collaborate across product, engineering, and platform teams to build scalable, robust solutions that meet business outcomes and reliability objectives.
• Rapidly develop proofs-of-concept to validate technology approaches, de-risk decisions, and accelerate stakeholder alignment.
• Proactively communicate status, trade-offs, and risk mitigations to senior management and business stakeholders; drive transparency and accountability.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues, improving operational stability etc.
• Operate effectively in an agile environment; set clear standards for engineering excellence and delivery quality.
• Lead pilot initiatives to evaluate emerging technologies and methodologies (e.g., agentic patterns, advanced CI/CD, cloud-native services), quantifying impact and fit.
• Elevate engineering practices through coaching, mentorship, and talent development; build next-level leaders and succession depth.

• Ensure adherence to cybersecurity and technology controls; champion secure-by-design and resilience patterns across the SDLC.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Formal training/certification in software engineering concepts and 7+ years of applied software engineering experience; plus 2+ years leading technologists to resolve complex technical challenges within your domain.
• Expert-level hands-on development experience in Java/J2EE and Spring Boot; strong proficiency with modern front-end technologies.
• Proficiency in Python for tooling, automation, and services.
• Strong experience with AWS services and cloud-native architectures.
• Deep experience with distributed systems, SQL databases.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for commercially used digital platforms (web and/or mobile).
• Proven track record building and operating large-scale, high-performance digital applications using microservices, APIs, and modern design patterns (including agentic approaches where applicable).
• Excellent programming and problem-solving skills, including hands-on development, support, and bug fixing for real-time systems with stringent latency and reliability requirements.
• Experience leading complex projects that improve system architecture, testing rigor, and resilience; advanced understanding of CI/CD, application resiliency, observability, and security within agile methodologies.
• Proficiency across the full Software Development Life Cycle (requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations), including automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Experience building, leading, and mentoring technology teams and developing next-level leaders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with event-driven architectures, streaming (e.g., Kafka), and asynchronous messaging.
• Hands-on familiarity with modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular).
• Experience with observability stacks (logs, metrics, traces), SRE practices, and incident management.
• Exposure to agentic system patterns and LLM-integrated services for developer productivity and operations.