Sr Director of Software Engineering

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As a Senior Director of Software Engineering at JPMorganChase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, you will lead multiple technical areas, manage the activities of multiple departments, and collaborate across technical domains. Your expertise is applied cross-functionally to drive the adoption and implementation of technical methods within various teams and aid the firm in remaining at the forefront of industry trends, best practices, and technological advances.

Job responsibilities

• Leads multiple technology and process implementations across departments to achieve firmwide technology objectives

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

• Acts as the primary interface with senior leaders, stakeholders, and executives, driving consensus across competing objectives. Manages multiple stakeholders, complex projects, and large cross-product collaborations. Directly manages multiple areas with strategic transactional focus

• Identifies opportunities to streamline and automate post-trade processes to improve efficiency and reduce operational risk, collaborate with other departments and senior management to understand technology needs and priorities

• Evaluates and select modern technology solutions that enhance system performance, scalability, and security. Also, leads initiatives to transform legacy technology systems to modern platforms, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations.

• Oversees the planning, execution, and delivery of technology projects, particularly those related to post-trade processes and legacy system modernization. Ensure projects are completed on time, within budget, and meet quality standards.

• Manages an organization of 40 plus members, fostering a collaborative and innovative team environment.

• Keeps abreast about regulatory changes affecting post-trade processes and ensure systems are updated, simultaneously collaborates with compliance teams to ensure adherence to relevant financial regulations.

• Collaborates with other departments and senior management to understand technology needs and priorities. Communicates technology strategies and initiatives, particularly those related to post-trade and legacy transformation, to stakeholders. Develops and manage the technology budget, ensuring cost-effective use of resources. Monitor and report on financial performance related to technology initiatives.

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 ( NAMR/APAC – India/ LATAM/ Hong Kong)

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

• Demonstrated prior experience influencing across highly matrixed, complex organizations and delivering value at scale

• 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 operational stability

• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent

• Extensive practical cloud native experience

• Proven track record of leading technology teams and projects, particularly in post-trade processes and legacy system transformation.

• Experience at a leading financial services organization.

• Experience leading a product as a Product Owner or Product Manager

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience working at code level

• Familiarity with post-trade technology platforms and systems, as well as modern technology solutions including legacy system transformation.

• Awareness of regulations affecting post-trade activities, such as Dodd-Frank, EMIR, and MiFID II.