Director of Software Engineering- Virtual Private Cloud

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 the VPC Network organization, you lead a critical technical area and drive firmwide impact across teams, technologies, and projects.

You bring deep engineering expertise to lead the design and implementation of JPMC-VPC-a software-defined networking platform that will replace legacy infrastructure and position the firm for decades of innovation-modernizing JPMorganChase's network platform and advancing next-generation SDN to support resilience, scale, and continued innovation.

You partner across product and engineering to deliver trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way, while challenging the status quo and staying at the forefront of industry trends and best practices.
Job responsibilities


* Leads the strategy and development of multiple products, applications, and technologies across a portfolio; sets technical direction and drives measurable outcomes.


* Designs and architects core components of JPMC-VPC, including control plane (OVN), data plane (OVS/DPU), software gateways, load balancers, and IPAM systems.


* Leads technology and process implementations to achieve functional technology objectives across teams and departments.


* Creates novel solutions and drives delivery of new production capabilities across teams and functions; ensures solutions are durable and reusable.


* Provides governance accountability for coding decisions, control obligations, and success measures such as cost of ownership, maintainability, reliability, and portfolio operations.


* Makes decisions that influence teams' resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures.


* Ensures engineering excellence by championing modern practices including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, testing, and observability, and by driving operational stability.


* Translates highly complex technical issues, trends, and approaches to senior leadership to enable well-informed decisions about technology investments and advancements.


* Collaborates with vendor partners (e.g., Red Hat, NVIDIA) on roadmap and integration; represents JPMorganChase in relevant open-source communities and industry forums when appropriate.


* Builds and develops talent through hiring, coaching, recognition, and creating high-performing, inclusive teams.


* Champions the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills


* 12+ years of experience in systems engineering, networking, distributed systems, or adjacent infrastructure platforms, with increasing scope of ownership and impact.


* Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams of technologists delivering complex platforms/products at scale.


* Exper...