Director of Software Engineering - Payments Technology

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 JPMorganChase within Consumer and Community Banking, 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



* Partner with business and product stakeholders to translate complex, ambiguous needs into clear technical requirements and delivery plans.


* Lead end-to-end delivery of low-latency, scalable solutions using modern engineering practices.


* Establish and champion engineering standards, including coaching, mentoring, and removing delivery impediments.


* Drive non-functional requirements, modernization efforts, and risk/control considerations in partnership with leadership.


* Influence and align peer leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology.


* Facilitate technical forums and architecture discussions to ensure decisions align to broader strategy and goals.


* Coordinate delivery across teams by managing plans, timelines, dependencies, and integration requirements.


* Define and evolve an integration strategy and associated technical requirements across applications, systems, and processes.


* Drive cloud adoption and enablement across engineering teams as part of broader integration efforts.


* Create and maintain technology roadmaps and workstreams, communicating progress and decisions to stakeholders.


* Provide governance for engineering decisions and delivery measures, including maintainability, cost of ownership, and operational health.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills



* Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 10+ years of applied software engineering experience.

5+ years of experience leading engineering teams, including managing and resolving complex technical challenges within your domain.


* Experience leading large engineering organizations and delivering a critical product area with multiple time-sensitive deliverables.


* Extensive experience designing and building cloud-native, distributed systems with high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability using Java and Spring.


* Experience working with high-volume data systems and relational databases such as PostgreSQL and Oracle.


* Working knowledge of cloud technologies and modern software/product engineering methods and best practices.


* Demonstrated ability to influence across matrixed organizations and deliver outcomes at scale.


* Experience balancing competing priorities by aligning product needs with technical capacity...