Senior Manager of Software Engineering

As a Senior VP Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Bank (CCB) SMB organization, you will provide strategic leadership and hands-on technical oversight for complex software initiatives in the Business Access and tools domain.

You will drive architecture, delivery, and operational excellence across distributed systems and cloud platforms, partnering with cross-product teams to build secure, scalable, and resilient solutions that deliver measurable business impact.

Key Responsibilities


* Lead end-to-end design and development of new systems; deep dive into existing architectures and processes to propose pragmatic modernization paths and remediation strategies.


* Collaborate across product, engineering, and platform teams to build scalable, robust solutions that meet business outcomes and reliability objectives.


* Rapidly develop proofs-of-concept to validate technology approaches, de-risk decisions, and accelerate stakeholder alignment.


* Proactively communicate status, trade-offs, and risk mitigations to senior management and business stakeholders; drive transparency and accountability.


* Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues, improving operational stability etc.


* Operate effectively in an agile environment; set clear standards for engineering excellence and delivery quality.


* Lead pilot initiatives to evaluate emerging technologies and methodologies (e.g., agentic patterns, advanced CI/CD, cloud-native services), quantifying impact and fit.


* Elevate engineering practices through coaching, mentorship, and talent development; build next-level leaders and succession depth.


* Ensure adherence to cybersecurity and technology controls; champion secure-by-design and resilience patterns across the SDLC.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills


* Formal training/certification in software engineering concepts and 7+ years of applied software engineering experience; plus 2+ years leading technologists to resolve complex technical challenges within your domain.


* Expert-level hands-on development experience in Java/J2EE and Spring Boot; strong proficiency with modern front-end technologies.


* Proficiency in Python for tooling, automation, and services.


* Strong experience with AWS services and cloud-native architectures.


* Deep experience with distributed systems, SQL databases.


* Demonstrated ability to deliver system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for commercially used digital platforms (web and/or mobile).


* Proven track record building and operating large-scale, high-performance digital applications using microservices, APIs, and modern design patterns (including agentic approaches where applicable).


* Excellent programming and problem-solving skills, including hands-on development, support, and bug fixing for real-time systems with stringent ...