Director of Software Engineering - Equities Risk

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 Equities Risk 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


* 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


* Deep expertise in Java with multi-threaded, high-performance backend development at scale.


* Proven ability to lead, mentor and grow multiple engineering teams, setting technical direction, driving architectural standards and developing senior engineers and managers.


* Demonstrated track record architecting and delivering complex, large-scale distributed systems, including ownership of end-to-end design, algorithms and workflows.


* Proven experience designing and delivering distributed applications, event-driven systems and real-time processing pipelines at enterprise scale.


* Ability to partner with senior business stakeholders, product and technology leadership to shape strategy, roadmaps and investment decisions.


* Strong track record of organizational influence, including cross-functional leadership, vendor/partner management and driving change at scale.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skill

Financial markets background, ideally equity trading, market microstructure or front-office trading systems or Financial/Banking experience

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P.

Morgan and Chase brands.

Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and...