Director of Software Engineering Sales & Controls Technology

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 Commercial & Investment Bank , Sales & Controls Tech 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 technology and process implementations to achieve functional technology objectives


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


* Sets direction and governance for agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/ADLC automation within a technical area to drive measurable improvements in speed, quality, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-orchestrated delivery workflows, release readiness controls, automated test modernization, and incident triage acceleration), while establishing guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, traceability, and reuse across teams.


* Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation and support capacity unlock initiatives at scale.


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


* Delivers technical solutions that can be leveraged across multiple businesses and domains


* Leadership capabilities: leads/mentors technologists, influences stakeholders, and supports hiring/screening for deep technical roles.

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


* Expert Python engineer: builds production-grade services/libraries with strong testing, performance, and reliability practices.


* Proven AI/agentic workflow architecture experience (tool-use patterns, orchestration, context management, guardrails, human-in-the-loop).


* Strong solution/enterprise architecture skills: designs end-to-end systems and documents patterns, integrations, and data flows clearly.


* Hands-on AWS experience delivering secure, scalable cloud-native services (IAM/security, networking, compute, monitoring/observability).


* VectorDB + retrieval (RAG) experience: embedding/indexing pipelines, similarity search, metadata filteri...