Director of Software Engineering- J.P. Morgan Personal Investing

Behind every investment is a person with ambitions motivations and values. While we know that every client is unique they come to J.P. Morgan Personal Investing for the same reason: our straightforward and transparent approach to investing and the trust that 150 years of J.P. Morgan heritage brings.

J.P. Morgan Personal Investing offers award-winning investments products and digital wealth management services to over 275000 investors in the UK. We built the business withinnovation as a core part of our ethos to give consumers the confidence and clarity to make informed investment decisions and achieve their financial goals.

As an Engineer at J.P. Morgan Personal Investing you will be part of a team with great ambitions. We aim to build a top-in-market suite of mobile and web apps to provide the best investment experience for our clients.

Our team is at the heart of this venture focused on getting smart ideas into the hands of our customers. Were looking for people who have a curious mindset thrive in collaborative squads and are passionate about building quality software that has a big impact in a rapidly changing environment. By their nature our people are also solution-oriented commercially savvy and have a head for fintech. We work in tribes and squads that focus on specific products and projects.

About the role:

J.P. Morgan Personal Investing is expanding its offering with a range of investment products all built on a common Investment Platform.

We are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead one of the Investment Platform areas within JPM Personal Investing overseeing multiple high-impact engineering this role you will drive execution against the product roadmap while scaling our technology people and processes. You will be responsible for shaping technical strategy building and mentoring high-performing managers and engineers and delivering reliable secure and scalable systems that support our business goals through innovation.

Job Responsibilities:

• Partner with Product to define and drive the strategy your teams will deliver across multiple time horizon

• Partner with BusinessMarketingandOperationsstakeholdersand other Engineering leaders totranslate strategy intorequirementsprioritize roadmapsremoveblockersand ensure on-time executionofproductfeatures to contribute to the companys business goals.

• Enable cross-functional alignmentwithin several JPM PIteams throughefficient processesclearcommunicationandeffectiveroadmaps anddocumentation includingdecision records.

• Supervise architectural decisions for scalability reliabilityperformanceand cost efficiency; review and approve major design proposals.

• Promote platform thinking reuse and implementation of best practices (e.g. microservices boundaries data contracts API standards) while managing technical debt with clear criteria and payoff plans.

• Oversee engineering costs and vendor management in your area ensuring ROIcomplianceandappropriate SLAs.

• Hire develop andretaintop talentstructuringteams for will own hiring budgets and headcount forecasting in your area.

• Manage mentor and grow engineering managers and senior ICsprovidingcareer pathways constructive feedback and succession planning.

• Foster a culture ofcollaborationaccountabilitypersonal growth continuousimprovementand operational excellence.

• Own incident management on-callstrategyand post-incident reviews to improve reliability and reduce toil

• Partner with Risk Compliance and Controls to prepare for and support internal and external audits and deliver solution in line with the firms policies standards and regulatory requirements

• Architects and governs agentic AI-enabled engineering workflows (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) to improve delivery speed code quality and operational outcomes at scale (e.g. AI-driven PR review assistance test generation/maintenance release readiness checks incident triage and root-cause acceleration) while defining guardrails for validation security resiliency and reuse across teams.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities to improve the value realized by automation at scale.

Required Qualifications

• 5 years of experience as a software engineer plus 10 years in positions oftechnical leadership.

• Strong product and business mindset and experience working with high-profile products in the consumer market.

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiencesin complex domains.

• Strong technical background in modern architectures (distributed systems cloud-native event-drivenarchitectures) SDLC and DevOps practices.

• Proventrack recordleading and scaling agile teams that deliver complex high-availability systems at pace.

• Excellent coaching feedback and conflict-resolution skills.

• Demonstrated experience designing and leading adoption of agentic AI-enabled development practices (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) across teams including setting standards for human-in-the-loop validation auditability/traceability of changes and secure handling of sensitive data.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use and control expectations in engineering workflows including security/resiliency implications data sensitivity and risk-based governance; ability to influence senior technical leaders on safe scaling patterns and reuse.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience inFintechorasimilarregulated environmentwhere you were exposed toareas likesecuritycomplianceorrisk management.

• Experience leading cross-border teams anddeliveringan international product with different localizations and currencies.

• Experience working with Data systemsand data at scale.

• Hands-on familiarity withAWS JVMKafkaand/or relational and NoSQL databases.

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