Director of Software Engineering - Payments 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 JPMorgan Chase within Consumer and Community Banking, Payments Technology, 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

• Partner with business and product stakeholders to translate complex, ambiguous needs into clear technical requirements and delivery plans.

• Lead end-to-end delivery of low-latency, scalable solutions using modern engineering practices.

• Establish and champion engineering standards, including coaching, mentoring, and removing delivery impediments.

• Drive non-functional requirements, modernization efforts, and risk/control considerations in partnership with leadership.

• Influence and align peer leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology.

• Facilitate technical forums and architecture discussions to ensure decisions align to broader strategy and goals.

• Coordinate delivery across teams by managing plans, timelines, dependencies, and integration requirements.

• Define and evolve an integration strategy and associated technical requirements across applications, systems, and processes.

• Drive cloud adoption and enablement across engineering teams as part of broader integration efforts.

• Create and maintain technology roadmaps and workstreams, communicating progress and decisions to stakeholders.

• Provide governance for engineering decisions and delivery measures, including maintainability, cost of ownership, and operational health.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 10+ years of applied software engineering experience. 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams, including managing and resolving complex technical challenges within your domain.

• Experience leading large engineering organizations and delivering a critical product area with multiple time-sensitive deliverables.

• Extensive experience designing and building cloud-native, distributed systems with high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability using Java and Spring.

• Working knowledge of cloud technologies and modern software/product engineering methods and best practices.

• Demonstrated ability to influence across matrixed organizations and deliver outcomes at scale.

• Experience balancing competing priorities by aligning product needs with technical capacity, feasibility, and roadmap considerations.

• Ability to communicate programming models, systems, and APIs effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to integrate AI-driven solutions into software engineering workflows to optimize development efficiency, automate tasks, and elevate product quality.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience working at code level

• Previous experience in the payments domain, including tokenization