Director of Software Engineering

Job Description
Become an integral part of our Platform Engineering team! Each day will be unique - bring a positive attitude, entrepreneurial spirit and get ready to roll up your sleeves. This position is an essential part of the team and will have exposure to several aspects of running a banking office.
As a Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within Corporate Technology, you will lead a technical area and drive impact across teams, technologies, and projects within departments. As part of Data Products Engineering, you will create engineering designs, establish best practices, and develop guidelines and procedures, along with repeatable and scalable frameworks to manage large volumes of data effectively, ensuring compliance with data classification requirements while maintaining data integrity and accessibility. You will design strategically while building applications that address real-world use cases. Utilize your in-depth knowledge of software, applications, technical processes, and product management to drive multiple complex projects and initiatives, serving as a primary decision maker for your teams and a driver of innovation and solution delivery. As a leader in Corporate Technology, you will be responsible for designing and building scalable cloud-native foundational data solutions.
Job responsibilities

• Leads technology and process implementations to achieve functional technology objectives.
• Provides critical day-to-day leadership and strategic thinking, working with teams of architects to align cross-functional projects, ensuring they are feasible both fiscally and technically.
• Designs strategically while building applications that address real-world use cases. Creates logical designs, describes their deployment on physical platforms, and builds applications based on these designs, recognizing alternatives, and proposing choices throughout the process.
• Makes decisions that influence teams' resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures.
• Carries governance accountability for coding decisions, control obligations, and measures.
• Champions the firm's culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

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 developing or leading cross-functional teams of technologists.
• Strong software engineering and object-oriented programming skills with expertise in languages such as Python and Java; and open-source frameworks/libraries, such as Apache Spark, Apache Airflow
• Expertise in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines with practical cloud native experience.
• Expertise in modernization using micro-front-end patterns, micro-services & APIs, Event Driven Architecture, Containerization/Kubernetes, and NoSQL databases.
• Knowledge of big data processing systems including Hadoop, EMR, Apache-Spark, AWS Glue and Data Bricks.
• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent.
• Experience leading a product as a Product Owner or Product Manager
• Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in architecting for private and public cloud environments, with a preference for Amazon Web Services, and in re-engineering and migrating on-premises data solutions to the cloud.
• Proficiency in building on emerging cloud serverless managed services to minimize or eliminate physical and virtual server footprints.
• Expertise in developing applications for real-time streaming using technologies such as Apache Spark Streaming, Apache Kafka, and Amazon Kinesis.
• Background in containerization and orchestration technologies, including Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, Apache Airflow and Amazon Elastic Container Service

About Us
JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
About the Team
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.