Director of Software Engineering Payments Technology

If you are a software engineering leader ready to take the reins and drive impact weve got an opportunity just for you.

As a Director of Software Engineeringat 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