Sr. Director of Software Engineering

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. invites a Sr. Director of Software Engineering to lead the Audit Tech team within Corporate Technology.

You will mentor talent, translate business needs into scalable technical solutions, and drive innovation across internal and public clouds. You will partner with senior stakeholders and business users to align architecture standards and data strategy while guiding AI-enabled transformations.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
• Experience leading technologists to manage complex items within a domain.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage multiple software engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Define strategy, vision, alignment to architecture standards and data strategy, use of AI to advance transformation.
• Partner with stakeholders to build partnerships across Audit & Corporate Technology.
• Oversee full SDLC for concurrent projects and ensure timely delivery within budget.
• Drive adoption of Agile and DevOps practices across teams.
• Mentor engineers and development leads to enhance technical and leadership skills.
• Establish and implement software development standards and quality assurance processes.
• Manage budgets and strategic planning for the software engineering department.

Skills

Java

Python

Angular

GenAI

AWS

Agile methodologies

DevOps

Leadership

Budget management

Communication with stakeholders

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

Oracle database management

Job description

As a Sr. Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Audit Tech team in Corporate Technology, you drive innovation, mentor tech talent, and translate complex data into powerful insights. You'll oversee our tech ecosystem spanning internal and public clouds, optimizing for peak performance. Utilize your in-depth knowledge of software, applications, technical processes, and product management to drive multiple complex projects and initiatives, while serving as a primary decision maker for your teams and be a driver of innovation and solution delivery.

If you're passionate about Audit tech, thrive on challenges, and excel at translating business requirements into elegant technical solutions, we want you! Join us to shape the future of audit software engineering.

Job responsibilities

• Lead and manage multiple software engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement
• Define strategy, vision, alignment to architecture standards and data strategy , use of AI to advance envisioned transformation and technology selection.
• Partner with senior stakeholders, business users and product leadership, tech leadership across Audit & Corporate Technology to build strong partnerships
• Collaborate with business users to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Oversee the full software development lifecycle for concurrent projects, ensuring timely delivery within budget
• Drive the adoption of best practices in software development, including Agile methodologies and DevOps practices
• Mentor, coach, and develop software engineers and development leads to enhance their technical and leadership skills
• Establish and implement software development standards, methodologies, and quality assurance processes
• Manage resource allocation, budgets, and strategic planning for the software engineering department
• 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
• Strong background in financial technology and understanding of DATA Intensive applications
• Expertise in programming languages: Java, Python, Angular and GenAI
• Experience with cloud technologies, particularly AWS
• Proficiency in Oracle database management and optimization
• Proven track record of successfully leading large-scale software development projects
• Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies and DevOps practices
• Demonstrated ability to work and communicate effectively with business stakeholders and technical teams and be an influential SME
• Experience in managing budgets and resources for software development projects
• 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

• The ideal candidate would have deep working knowledge of Public Cloud, Native-Cloud applications, Microservices, Databases, Data Lakes.
• Ensure all software development adheres to financial industry regulations and security standards