Director of Software Engineering - Deposits

If you are a software engineering leader ready to take the reins and drive impact, we've got an opportunity just for you.

As a Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Deposits Technology team, you lead a technical area and drive impact within teams, technologies, and projects across departments.

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.

Job responsibilities



* Manage agile software delivery teams and partner with the Area Product owner.


* Deliver solutions leveraging modern technologies including cloud-backed APIs and microservices utilizing distributed database technologies.


* Oversee all aspects of technology delivery.


* Maintain a strong risk management mindset relative to managing risk and delivering technical tasks related to the solution, such as breaks, defects, patches, and upgrades.


* Possess a strong talent assessment and talent management background.


* Mentor team members to progress their technical and professional skills.


* Build and maintain relationships with business and technology team members.


* Triage technical issues and lead teams toward solving problems.


* Plan team capacity to accommodate demands.


* Drive down legacy technology platform footprint.


* Leverage background in legacy technologies such as SOA and Mainframe, a plus but not required.

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


* Demonstrated proficiency in application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines.


* Demonstrated proficiency with server side languages such as Java, Python, Ruby, PHP and JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React and Amber.


* Ability to work collaboratively in teams and develop meaningful relationships to achieve common goals.


* Demonstrated experience building internet scale platforms from the ground up.

Strong understanding of OOP & SOA principles, enterprise design patterns and industry best practices with experience using modern technology (e.g.

Java, Cassandra, Kafka) and design patterns (e.g.

microservices, APIs).


* Expert level experience designing and building REST web services at internet scale.


* Experience in cloud technologies and patterns (AWS, Google Cloud).


* Experience with automated testing tools and capabilities (Cucumber, Selenium, ATDD, TDD).


* Experience with high volume, mission critical applications.


* Experience with tuning high volume applications.


* Familiarity with database technology such as M...