Senior Director of Software Engineering - CI&A Biometric & Externalization

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As a Senior Director of Software Engineering at JPMorganChase within the Connected Commerce Technology organization, 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.

Job Responsibilities



* Leads multiple technology and process implementations across departments to achieve firmwide technology objectives


* Directly manages multiple areas with strategic transactional focus


* Sets and scales multi-department strategy for agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) to drive firmwide objectives (speed, scalability, reliability, and cost-to-serve), including portfolio-level standards for AI-orchestrated delivery workflows, release governance, automated test modernization, resilience engineering, and incident response acceleration; establishes guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, traceability, and reuse.


* Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to drive cross-domain reuse and measurable capacity unlock outcomes across departments.


* Provides leadership and high-level direction to teams while frequently overseeing employee populations across multiple platforms, divisions, and lines of business


* Acts as the primary interface with senior leaders, stakeholders, and executives, 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



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

In addition, 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise


* Experience designing and scaling a cross-channel biometric platform (not point solutions), including common APIs/shared policy/shared telemetry with modality-specific adapters (voice/face/iris/palm), integration across IVR/telephony, mobile SDK + camera pipelines, and kiosk/branch/partner flows, with strong reliability/latency discipline (especially for IVR voice) and graceful fallback for poor capture quality.


* Fluency in biometric ops and performance measurement (e.g., FAR/FRR, EER, TAR@FAR, FTE/FTA, drop-off, IVR AHT), w...