Principal Software Engineer - Executive Director Post Trade Technology

If you are looking for a game-changing career, working for one of the world's leading financial institutions, you’ve come to the right place.

As a Principal Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial & Investment Bank Post Trade Technology, you provide expertise and engineering excellence as an integral part of an agile team to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Leverage your advanced technical capabilities and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes across various technologies to support one or more of the firm’s portfolios.

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/TLM 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

• 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 7+ years applied experience

• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

• Experience developing or leading cross-functional teams of technologists

• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent

• Experience leading adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering practices (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) across teams, including defining operating expectations (human-in-the-loop validation, quality gates), measuring outcomes, and ensuring secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs.

• Strong understanding of responsible AI use and control expectations in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, resiliency/security implications, and governance; ability to influence leaders on safe scaling patterns and reuse.

• Practical cloud native experience

• Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Strong programming experience in Core Java.

• Strong experience in C, C++, or C#.

• Deep understanding of messaging and event-driven systems, including Kafka and MQ.

• Experience with FIX protocol and trading/investment banking integrations.

• Strong database experience, including MongoDB and Cassandra.

• Experience with legacy-to-modern data platform migration, including Sybase modernization.

• Strong understanding of performance tuning, scalability, concurrency, and resilient system design.