Sr Director of Software Engineering - Order Management System / Java

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead technical areas within their Equities Order Management System Technology. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in software engineering, with strong expertise in Java applications and large-scale distributed systems. This role involves managing multiple projects, ensuring efficient delivery, and collaborating with stakeholders to enhance business growth and technical efficiency.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of applied experience in software engineering.
• 5+ years leading teams to manage and solve complex technical issues.
• Hands-on experience with Java applications development.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple technology implementations meeting business objectives.
• Manage multiple areas with strategic transactional focus.
• Provide leadership and direction across various platforms.

Skills

Java applications development

Data structures and synchronization

Network communication protocols

Multi-threaded programming

Object-oriented design

Gradle

Dev-Ops

Experience with Equities Order Management Systems

Low latency system delivery

Portfolio Trading support

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Job description

Your opportunity to make a real impact and shape the future of financial services is waiting for you. Let’s push the boundaries of what's possible together.

As a Senior Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate and Investment Bank, Equities Order Management System Technology, you lead multiple technical areas, manage the activities of multiple departments, and collaborate across technical domains. Your expertise is applied cross-functionally to drive the adoption and implementation of technical methods within various teams and aid the firm in remaining at the forefront of industry trends, best practices, and technological advances.

You will design, develop and implement top performing, distributed multi-asset Order Management Systems. You will work closely with others to design and implement core OMS infrastructure, workflow, pipeline, configuration modules, communication, instrumentation and administration, caching, and real-time distribution. You will enhance automated build and deployment modules to help integrate components into Sales & Trading eco-system, and add enhancements to increase business growth and add execution efficiency.

Job responsibilities

• Leads multiple technology implementations across workstreams to achieve technology and business objectives
• Directly manages multiple areas with strategic transactional focus and accelerating delivery
• Provides leadership and direction to teams while frequently overseeing multiple platforms at a high-level and in detail
• Acts as the interface with stakeholders and partners, driving consensus across competing objectives
• Manages multiple stakeholders, complex projects, and large cross-product collaborations
• Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ year of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise and more broadly across the organization
• Experience developing Java applications including hands on coding
• In-depth, expert level understanding data structures, synchronization, network communication protocols, multi-threaded programming and object oriented design
• Experience developing large scale high-availability distributed systems with dynamic quality of service and linear scaling for availability and reliability
• Working proficiency with developmental toolsets: Gradle, Jules, Dev-Ops
• Experience with Equities Order Management Systems and Market Structure
• Drives delivery of low latency / high performance / high capacity Core JavaOMS components (order management, workflows, instrumentation, etc.)
• Partners closely with Portfolio Trading / Program Trading stakeholders to deliver OMS capabilities that improve execution efficiency and workflow automation
• Supports and enhances ETF trading workflows, including RFQs (Request for Quotes) and Creation/Redemption lifecycle processes
• Oversees wholesale technical, end to end execution, including full stack/GUI workflows (Web/React), and leverages KDB / Analytics to deliver real-time monitoring, operational insights, and trading analytics