Principle Technical Program Manager

Elevate your career by steering multi-faceted tech programs integrating innovative solutions for a dynamic impact across global operations.

As a Principal Technical Program Manager in Enterprise Technology in the Global Client Onboarding Engineering team you will lead complex multi-functional technology projects and programs that will impact experiences for multiple groups across the firm including clients employees and stakeholders. Your advanced analytical reasoning and adaptability skills will enable you to break down business technical and operational objectives into manageable tasks while navigating through ambiguity and driving change. With demonstrated technical fluency you will effectively manage resources budgets and cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions that align with the firms strategic goals. Your exceptional communication and influencing abilities will foster productive relationships with stakeholders ensuring alignment and effective risk this pivotal role you will contribute to the development of new policies and processes shaping the future of our technology landscape.

As Head of Wholesale Client Onboarding Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within Client Onboarding and Document Engineering (CODE) you will provide deep engineering expertise and strategic leadership to deliver trusted market-leading client onboarding technology products in a secure stable and scalable manner. You will leverage your extensive expertise to consistently challenge the status quo promote innovation for business impact and lead the strategic development of onboarding platforms serving the Commercial & Investment Bank Commercial Banking and Asset & Wealth Management lines of business.

Job responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Adivse and lead the strategy and development of the client onboarding technology portfolio.
• Portfolio Management: Translate highly complex technical and regulatory requirements across countries into scalable technology solutions that drive the firms competitive advantage in ease of doing business.
• Innovation: Champion automation and straight-through processing to dramatically reduce onboarding times with robust risk and control frameworks while driving adoption and implementation of modern AI-ready architectures and cloud-native patterns aligned with the latest product development strategies and firmwide technology standards.
• Technical Excellence: Create durable reusable software frameworks that are leveraged across teams and functions while leading the technical vision for digital client onboarding including integrations with undustry utilities (Saphyre IHS Markit) and direct API-based client self-service capabilities.
• Cross-Functional Influence & Stakeholder Management: Manage senior stakeholders while influencing across business product and technology teams spanning CIB Markets Securities Services Commercial Banking Wholesale Payments Reference Data Know-Your-Customer Legal Credit Tax and Operations successfully managing senior stakeholder relationships at the Managing Director level aligning disparate organizations with diferent priorities to deliver client-centric solutions.
• Organizational Leadership & Talent Development: Lead a global client onbaording technology organization of 100 developers supporting 15 sub-lines of business across 10 onboarding business functions by building high-performing diverse teams with strong retention that fosters innovation through a culture that embraces calculated risk-taking and learning from failure.
• Risk Controls & Regulatory Compliance: Ensure client onbaording platforms comply with multitue of local regulatory compliance and customer privacy norms (GDPR) across 140 countries while maintaining top-tier application stability and availability (Top 5% across Corporate Technology) utilizing proacive risk identification escalation and remediation.
• Cultural Excellence: Champion the firms culture of diversity opportunity inclusion and respect.

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10 years of applied experience with 7 years of experience in leadership roles.
• Demonstrated experience managing large-scale mission-critical platforms leading complex technology projects and programs in large organizations
• Deep expertise in client lifecycle management KYC operations and institutional onboarding across multiple asset classes jurisdictions and regulatory frameworks.
• Proven track record of building modern microservices architectures API-first designs and cloud-native development on both private and public cloud platforms (AWS / Azure).
• Proficiency influencing across functions and delivering transformational value at enterprise scale with ability to align disparate stakeholder groups toward common objectives.
• Strong understanding of highly distributed systems including orchestration patterns event-driven architectures workflow engines and integration with 80 downstream systems.
• Experience leading complex multi-year modernization programs supporting system design migration testing and operational stability.
• Exceptional business acumen with ability to translate technical capabilities into competitive business advantages and measurable client experience improvements.
• Expertise in stakeholder management at senior executive levels with demonstrated ability to envision align design sell and deliver complex solutions.

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Experience with industry utilities and data-sharing consortiums (Saphyre IHS Markit SWIFT or similar platforms).
• Track record of rapid response to business-critical events (i.e. acquisitions market disruptions regulatory changes) through agile technology delivery.
• Demonstrated success in building reusable platforms and frameworks that scale across multiple business lines and use cases.
• Experience with low-code/no-code workflow platforms and citizen developer enablement.
• Background in financial services reference data party data models and account openings across institutional client segments.
• Azure or AWS Cloud certifications demonstrating deep technical knowledge of public cloud platforms.