Senior Executive Director Payments Engineering | Corporate & Investment Banking Technology

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As a Senior Executive Director of Payments Engineering within the Commercial and Investment Banking (CIB) Technology team at JPMorgan Chase you will set and execute the technical vision for mission-critical payment platforms that serve the worlds largest corporations and financial institutions. You will lead multiple engineering teams drive large-scale transformation initiatives and ensure our payments technology delivers seamless secure and innovative solutions. Your leadership will be pivotal in aligning engineering strategy with business objectives championing best-in-class practices and fostering a culture of excellence inclusion and continuous improvement.

Job responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Define and communicate the technical vision and architectural roadmap for CIB Payments Engineering ensuring alignment with business strategy and firmwide technology objectives while leading the design development and deployment of complex cross-departmental payment technology solutions driving modernization automation and digital transformation initiatives.
• Organizational Management: Directly manage multiple engineering teams providing mentorship career development and performance management for a diverse group of technologists while fostering a culture of innovation collaboration and continuous improvement across global teams.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Serve as a key interface with senior leaders stakeholders and executives building consensus and driving decision-making across competing priorities while orchestrating large-scale cross-product collaborations managing multiple stakeholders and complex project portfolios to deliver high-impact outcomes.
• Technical Excellence: Champion engineering best practices cloud-native architectures and modern software development methodologies ensuring platforms are robust scalable and secure.
• Hands-on Leadership: Partner with architects and senior engineers to define system designs and technical strategies and review and guide engineering design code and implementations ensuring adherence to best practices in architecture testing security resilience and performance.
• Risk & Compliance: Ensure all payment systems and technology solutions adhere to regulatory requirements operational risk standards and cybersecurity best practices while proactively identifying and mitigating technology risks.
• Talent Development: Attract hire and retain top talent; foster a culture of learning innovation and recognition; and promote diversity equity and inclusion across the organization.
• Financial & Resource Management: Manage budgets resource allocation and vendor relationships to optimize delivery and cost efficiency.

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10 years applied addition 5 year of experience leading technologists to manage anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise and more broadly across the organization.
• Proven track record of managing high-performing engineering teams in a large-scale matrixed organization.
• Experience leading complex projects supporting system architecture design testing and operational stability.
• Extensive hands-on experience with cloud-native technologies distributed systems and modern software engineering practices.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and drive outcomes across multiple business lines product teams and technology domains.
• Strong background in risk management compliance and secure software development.
• Experience with global payment networks real-time payments and digital wallets.
• Experience hiring developing and recognizing talent while prioritizing helpfulness mentorship and team development
• Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills.

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Experience working at code level with mastery of enterprise-grade languages (Java Python preferred).
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and DevOps practices.
• Experience working in highly regulated environments.
• Background working with global and distributed teams.
• Action-oriented decisive and drives results systematically.
• Detail-oriented able to distinguish between important and urgent tasks.
• Acts with integrity and leads by example.