Sr Director of Software Engineering-HR Domain

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As a Senior Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within Corporate Technology HR & Benefits Technology you lead multiple technical areas manage the activities of multiple departments and collaborate across technical domains. Your expertise is applied cross-functionally to drive the adoption and implementation of technical methods within various teams and aid the firm in remaining at the forefront of industry trends best practices and technological advances.

In this role you own the technology and process landscape spanning Global Benefits Global Mobility Business Travel and Expatriate Payroll & Taxat the largest bank in the world. You lead a 125 global benefits vendor ecosystem drive the migration of U.S. pension off legacy PeopleSoft into modern cloud technologies and deliver end-to-end integration and automation of benefits data into and out of payroll to enable touchless payrollacross countries currencies and regulatory regimes with strong controls resiliency and compliance-by-design.

Job responsibilities

• Owns the end-to-end technology strategy and delivery across Global Benefits Global Mobility Business Travel and Expatriate Payroll & Tax including the 125 global benefits vendor ecosystem and related application-owner risk and vendor-performance governance
• Drives the migration of U.S. pension from legacy PeopleSoft to modern secure cloud-native technologies ensuring data integrity controls and operational stability throughout the transition
• Delivers end-to-end integration and automation of all benefits data flowing into and out of payroll to enable touchless payrollorchestrating a complex cross-country cross-regulation landscape of inbound and outbound flows (benefits mobility time banking tax statutory and general ledger) across multiple jurisdictions and currencies
• Leads Global Mobility technology (e.g. Sirva) and expatriate payroll business travel and tax support (e.g. KPMG) partnering with HR Benefits Mobility Finance and Operations to convert needs into prioritized roadmaps
• Sets the engineering bar across the portfoliocustom full-stack development serverless and cloud-native design on AWS Infrastructure as Code Pipeline as Code and automated CI/CDdelivering repeatable auditable resilient deployments
• Champions secure-by-design and compliance-by-design embedding automated controls security scanning and policy-as-code into pipelines to support SOX statutory and tax reporting data residency/retention segregation of duties and access management
• Directs responsible adoption of AI-enabled engineeringagentic workflows AI-assisted (vibe coding) development and MCP-based services for conversational interfacespaired with strong guardrails for a highly regulated industry
• Acts as the primary interface with senior leaders and executives driving consensus across competing risk regulatory operational cost and modernization priorities and presenting clearly to senior management
• Leads hires and develops large cross-functional engineering teams; champions the firms culture of diversity opportunity inclusion and respect
• Sets and scales multi-department strategy for agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) to drive firmwide objectives (speed scalability reliability and cost-to-serve) including portfolio-level standards for AI-orchestrated delivery workflows release governance automated test modernization resilience engineering and incident response acceleration; establishes guardrails for validation security resiliency traceability and reuse.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities to drive cross-domain reuse and measurable capacity unlock outcomes across departments.

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10 years applied addition 5 years of experience leading technologists to manage anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
• Deep experience delivering technology across benefits payroll mobility or HR domains in a large highly regulated global enterprise spanning the U.S. and multiple countries
• Hands-on and leadership-level expertise in software development with Java and Python on AWS including serverless and cloud-native design patterns
• Strong full-stack capability including modern front-end development (e.g. React TypeScript) and API-first design using GraphQL and REST
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform CloudFormation) Pipeline as Code and automated CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins GitLab CI GitHub Actions) with automated security and controls embedded in pipelines
• Demonstrated experience building highly secure code using guardrails appropriate for a highly regulated industry
• Proven delivery of end-to-end integration and automation between vendor systems and payroll plus experience migrating legacy platforms (e.g. PeopleSoft) to modern cloud with strong data integrity and controls
• Experience managing large vendor ecosystemsonboarding application ownership risk management and performance tracking
• Experience leading large cross-functional technology teams and influencing across highly matrixed complex organizations to deliver value at scale
• Experience leading multi-organization adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering operating models (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) including defining governance (human-in-the-loop decisioning quality gates) measurement frameworks and secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs across teams.
• Deep understanding of responsible AI risk controls and resiliency/security expectations at scale with demonstrated ability to advise senior leaders on safe adoption portfolio governance and reuse-first strategies.

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Experience building MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers and tool/function-calling backends to power agentic and conversational interfaces
• Experience managing agentic workflows and AI-assisted (vibe coding) development with tools such as GitHub Copilot Claude Code or similarwhere approved
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (e.g. Docker Kubernetes) and GitOps-based deployment on AWS
• Familiarity with Global Mobility platforms (e.g. Sirva) and expatriate payroll business travel and tax models (e.g. KPMG)
• Experience modernizing enterprise integrations (API-led and event-driven patterns interface test automation observability) and leading globally distributed teams

• Executive-level communication including presenting to and influencing senior executives