Senior Manager of Software Engineering - Java/Backend/AWS

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Plano, TX is seeking a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead multiple technical teams, provide coaching, and drive collaborative tech initiatives.

You will influence design choices, guide AI-assisted engineering practices, and ensure secure, high-quality production code while aligning with enterprise standards and risk controls. As a senior engineering leader, you will partner with stakeholders across functions, shape the engineering roadmap, and mentor engineers

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering with 5+ years of applied experience.
• 2+ years of experience leading technologists to solve complex technical items.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of developers, providing coaching, code reviews, and career development.
• Execute creative software solutions with advanced problem solving and design thinking.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality and delivery speed with secure validation standards.
• Apply SDLC tools to improve automation and value realization in development.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code and review others' code.

Skills

Leadership

AI-assisted tooling

Java 17

Spring Framework

AWS

CI/CD

Security

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

JIRA

Maven

Git

Jenkins

GitHub

Bitbucket

Job description

When you mentor and advise multiple technical teams and move financial technologies forward, it’s a big challenge with big impact. You were made for this.

As a Senior Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking, you serve in a leadership role by providing technical coaching and advisory for multiple technical teams, as well as anticipate the needs and potential dependencies of other functions within the firm. As an expert in your field, your insights influence budget and technical considerations to advance operational efficiencies and functionalities.

Job responsibilities:

• Lead a team of developers, providing coaching, code reviews, and career development to grow team capability and delivery outcomes
• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience . In addition, 2 + years of experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) : J2EE , Core Java including Java 17 with annotation, enum, collections, streaming, multithreading, concurrency, regular expressions, functions.
• Experience with spring including In-depth knowledge of Spring Framework for building SOAP/RESTful Web Services, MVC, and Spring Boot.
• Strong AWS experience, architecting, deploying, and operating cloud-native services (e.g., IAM, VPC, EC2, EKS, SQS, S3, RDS, ALB/NLB, Secrets Manager, ElastiCache)
• Experience with build and Integration Tools, including knowledge of JIRA, Maven, Git, Jenkins, GitHub and BitBucket is required.
• Development using Agile methodology. Web Security including OAUTH2/ADFS, Kerberos, Cross Site Scripting and HTTP injection.
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience