Sr. Director of Software Engineering

Shape the future of financial services at JPMorganChase. Join us to drive innovation, deliver impactful solutions, and lead teams at the forefront of technology.

As a Senior Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within Consumer & Community Banking Operations Technology, you will lead multiple technical domains, managing high-performing teams and collaborating across the organization. You will drive strategic platform development, champion industry best practices, and ensure delivery of scalable, resilient, and user-centric solutions. Your leadership will guide the adoption of advanced technologies and frameworks, aligning with the firm’s vision and objectives.

• Leads multiple technology and process implementations across departments to

• 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

• Proven success delivering complex, multi-team programs at scale and on

schedule.

• Experience developing or leading large or cross-functional teams of

• Demonstrated prior experience influencing across highly matrixed, complex

• 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

• Manages multiple stakeholders, complex projects, and large cross-product

• Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product,

and technology teams

• Deep expertise across the technology stack: API design (REST, SOAP, gRPC,

GraphQL), AWS cloud (EKS, networking, serverless, IAM), CI/CD, container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), event streaming (Kafka, Kinesis), CDN, front-end frameworks, observability (Datadog, CloudWatch, SLOs/SLIs), large-scale databases (PostgreSQL, Neo4j, Aurora), security, compliance, and QA automation.

• Experience leading multi-organization adoption of agentic AI-enabled

engineering operating models (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment), including defining governance (human-in-the-loop decisioning, quality gates), measurement frameworks, and secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs across teams.

• Deep understanding of responsible AI risk, controls, and resiliency/security

expectations at scale, with demonstrated ability to advise senior leaders on safe adoption, portfolio governance, and reuse-first strategies.

• Experience leading complex projects supporting system design, testing, and

• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
• Mastery of modern delivery methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Kanban), with

adaptability to context.

• Hands-on coding experience.
• Extensive practical cloud native experience

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility.

These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.