Senior Director of Software Engineering - Global Payroll

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As a Senior Director of Software Engineering Global Payroll at JPMorgan Chase within Corporate Technology - HR & Payroll 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.

This role does not manage Payroll Operations or \"run payroll.\" It owns the technology platforms and integrations that enable Payroll Operations to execute payroll accurately and on time across the U.S.

and multiple countries-supporting a mission-critical, deadline-driven, zero-tolerance-for-error workload with strong controls, resiliency, and compliance-by-design.

Job responsibilities


* Leads multiple technology and process implementations across departments to achieve firmwide technology objectives, with a focus on global payroll and time technology platforms and integrations


* Owns the technology strategy, engineering delivery, and lifecycle management for Oracle HCM Payroll and Time platforms, including configuration enablement, upgrades, environment management, and integration architecture


* Leads technology enablement and integration patterns for ADP GlobalView and ADP Celergo, ensuring reliable, controlled, and observable data flows that support global payroll processing


* Directly manages multiple areas with strategic transactional focus, ensuring platforms and integrations meet high standards for availability, accuracy, security, auditability, and operational stability


* Owns interface integrity and master-data quality across upstream and downstream HR, Finance, Tax, and Treasury dependencies-the most common source of payroll defects


* Provides leadership and high-level direction to teams across multiple platforms, divisions, and lines of business (engineering, product, platform, and production support), while partnering with Payroll Operations and regional stakeholders to translate operational needs into prioritized technical roadmaps and delivery plans


* Drives compliance-by-design, ensuring platform and integration capabilities support financial controls (SOX), country-specific statutory and tax reporting, data residency and retention requirements, segregation of duties, and access management


* Balances disciplined BAU delivery (SDLC, automated testing, monitoring and observability, incident and problem management, peak-cycle readiness) with innovation that optimizes process, automates controls, improves data quality, and modernizes integrations at global scale


* Leads vendor and partner governance (including ADP) for technology delivery perfo...