Sr Director of Software Engineering
Role Overview
Lead multiple technical areas and departments within JPMorganChase’s Commercial and Investment Bank.
Apply cross-functional software engineering expertise to advance technical methods, industry practices, and technology adoption.
Manage an organization of more than 40 members and collaborate with senior leaders across business, product, and technology.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role Overview
Lead multiple technical areas and departments within JPMorganChase’s Commercial and Investment Bank.
Apply cross-functional software engineering expertise to advance technical methods, industry practices, and technology adoption.
Manage an organization of more than 40 members and collaborate with senior leaders across business, product, and technology.
AI Engineering Strategy
- Set and scale strategy for agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation using enterprise-authorized tools.
- Establish portfolio standards for AI-orchestrated delivery workflows, release governance, automated test modernization, resilience engineering, and incident response acceleration.
- Define guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, traceability, reuse, human-in-the-loop decisioning, quality gates, and secure handling of sensitive inputs and outputs.
Technology Leadership
- Lead technology and process implementations across departments and drive adoption of software development lifecycle tools and automation.
- Provide high-level direction to teams, influence peer leaders and senior stakeholders, and drive consensus across competing objectives.
- Manage complex projects, large cross-product collaborations, technology budgets, and financial performance.
Modernization and Stability
- Identify opportunities to streamline and automate post-trade processes, improve efficiency, and reduce operational risk.
- Evaluate modern solutions and transform legacy systems to modern platforms while minimizing disruption to business operations.
- Oversee planning, execution, and delivery of projects related to post-trade processes, legacy modernization, system design, testing, and operational stability.
People and Regulatory Leadership
- Manage, hire, develop, and recognize a technology organization of more than 40 members.
- Track regulatory changes affecting post-trade processes and collaborate with compliance teams to maintain adherence to financial regulations.
- Communicate post-trade and legacy-transformation strategies and priorities to stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts with 10+ years of applied experience.
- At least 5 years leading technologists who solve complex technical problems.
- Experience leading large or cross-functional technology teams in complex, matrixed organizations.
- Experience leading multi-organization adoption of governed, secure, agentic AI-enabled engineering operating models.
- Deep understanding of responsible AI risk, controls, resiliency, and security at scale.
- Extensive practical cloud-native experience and experience with complex system design, testing, and operational stability.
- Proven technology leadership in post-trade processes and legacy system transformation.
- Experience at a leading financial services organization and as a Product Owner or Product Manager.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working at code level.
- Familiarity with post-trade technology platforms, legacy system transformation, and modern technology solutions.
- Awareness of Dodd-Frank, EMIR, and MiFID II regulations.
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