Senior Tech Leader: PM & Software Engineer, AI-Driven

JPMorgan Chase; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Jersey City, NJ seeks a Senior Manager of Software Engineering within the Commercial & Investment Bank FX/Cash Custody to provide technical coaching and advisory across multiple teams. You influence budgets and technology choices to advance efficiency and capabilities.

You will guide enterprise AI-assisted development, ensure secure patterns, and drive delivery improvements through a structured governance model across teams.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• 2+ years of experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise.
• Experience leading projects
• Strong technical background with prior hands-on software engineering experience (coding/designing/building)
• Technical Program and Project management with software development experience managing timelines, backlogs, and dependencies across stakeholders' groups.
• Technical and Functional analysis and design - refining requirements and designs to comply with patterns established in cash architecture.
• AI first mindset - using AI to codify thinking tasks and streamline program delivery. Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, resiliency/security implications, and control expectations; ability to coach managers, leads and influence leaders on safe scaling patterns.
• Ability to guide and coach teams on approach to achieve goals aligned against a set of strategic initiatives.
• Experience leading multi-team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and delivery tools, including defining governance/ways of working (human-in-the-loop validation, quality gates), measuring outcomes, and ensuring secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level software engineers that work on basic to moderately complex tasks
• Accountable for decisions that influence teams' resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
• Sets and scales operating practices for enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering and SDLC/TLM automation across multiple teams to improve delivery speed, quality, and operational outcomes; establishes measurable expectations and ensures consistent validation, security, resiliency, and reuse of proven patterns.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to drive efficiency and support capacity unlock initiatives across teams, prioritizing reuse of existing firm technology assets.
• Ensures successful collaboration across teams and stakeholders
• Identifies and mitigates issues to execute a book of work while escalating issues as necessary
• Provides input to leadership regarding budget, approach, and technical considerations to improve operational efficiencies and functionality for the team

Skills

Technical leadership

Team coaching

AI-first mindset

Cloud native

Software engineering

Budget awareness

SDLC automation

Cross-team collaboration

Security awareness

Education

Software engineering certification/training

Tools

AI-assisted development tools

Job description

JPMorganChase in Jersey City, NJ seeks a Senior Manager of Software Engineering within the Commercial & Investment Bank FX/Cash Custody to provide technical coaching and advisory across multiple teams. You influence budgets and technology choices to advance efficiency and capabilities.

You will guide enterprise AI-assisted development, ensure secure patterns, and drive delivery improvements through a structured governance model across teams.