Senior Manager of Software Engineering Java AWS

Senior Manager of Software Engineering

You thrive on mentoring multiple engineering teams elevating technical standards and shipping secure resilient financial technology at scale. You pair strong engineering judgment with clear communication and executive presence. You were made for this.

As a Senior Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within Consumer and Community Banking you will lead highperforming teams building modern scalable consumer experiences (including travel products) on cloudnative platforms. Youll set technical direction develop talent and partner across Product Design Risk Security and Operations to deliver outcomes that matter. This role is designed for rapid progression to Director for candidates who demonstrate enterprise impact and crossorg leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead Technical Leadership and Strategy
  • Define and communicate the technical vision architecture and roadmaps across multiple squads; drive modernization (microservices eventdriven cloudnative) and platform consistency.
  • Balance speed reliability security cost and compliance; champion NFRs (availability performance scalability resiliency observability).
  • Establish engineering standards and best practices (coding testing CI/CD observability incident management security-by-design).
• Achieve Delivery Excellence and Operational Resilience
  • Own outcomes for a portfolio of products and platforms: set quarterly OKRs manage dependencies and ensure predictable delivery.
  • Partner with SRE and Security to meet SLOs/SLAs; reduce incident rates and MTTR; drive rootcause analysis and preventative engineering.
  • Guide capacity planning cloud cost management and production readiness reviews.
• Enhance Team Leadership and Talent Development
  • Lead and grow managers and engineers; build a culture of inclusion psychological safety and continuous learning.
  • Hire develop and retain top talent; build succession plans; provide clear feedback and career paths.
  • Foster diverse representation; recognize and reward impact.
• Facilitate CrossFunctional Influence and Communication
  • Translate complex technical topics into clear business narratives for senior stakeholders; influence decisions across Product Risk Controls and Operations.
  • Align roadmaps and budgets with business priorities; ensure transparency on tradeoffs risks and timing.
  • Drive effective collaboration across teams; remove blockers and escalate with context and options.
• Implement Governance Risk and Compliance
  • Embed secure development practices data protection and regulatory considerations in design and delivery.
  • Ensure audit readiness and control adherence throughout the software lifecycle.

Required Qualifications Capabilities and Skills

• 15 years of industry experience delivering largescale distributed systems and leading highperformance engineering teams.
• Deep handson background with modern technologies: Java Spring Boot Kafka Cassandra AWS; familiarity with Kubernetes Terraform/IaC and modern CI/CD and observability tooling.
• Proven track record setting technical direction across multiple teams and shipping resilient secure and compliant systems at scale.
• Practical cloudnative experience (containerization autoscaling service meshes secrets management zerotrust patterns).
• Exceptional communication: executive presence crisp written and verbal storytelling ability to influence senior stakeholders and align diverse teams.
• Demonstrated experience hiring coaching and developing managers and senior engineers; building inclusive hightrust cultures.
• Degree in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or related fieldor equivalent industry experience with deep technical expertise.

Preferred Qualifications Capabilities and Skills

• Ability and willingness to operate at code level when needed: perform architecture reviews code reviews debugging and handson prototyping.
• Experience in eventdriven architectures streaming patterns data consistency and idempotent design.
• Track record of enterprise modernization (e.g. monolith to microservices) performance tuning and cost optimization.
• Contributions to thought leadership: public speaking publications patents or opensource participation.