Director of Software Engineering - Global Trade Technology

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

As a Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Global Trade & Working Capital technologies, 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. You will be leading a diverse team of highly skilled technologist working across the globe.

Job responsibilities

• Leads technology and process implementations to achieve functional technology objectives
• Makes decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
• Carries governance accountability for coding decisions, control obligations, and measures of success such as cost of ownership, maintainability, and portfolio operations
• Delivers technical solutions that can be leveraged across multiple businesses and domains
• Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams
• Accountable for decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
• Continuous innovation, identify opportunities areas to introduce technology, expand, enhance the technology product and create new capabilities that drive value and business objectives.
• People management responsibilities for diverse, highly motivated globally dispersed direct-report teams. Build effective and inclusive high performing teams
• Keen understanding of financial control, fiduciary responsibilities for our client, and overall budget management for technology resources and operating expenses
• Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience, along with 5+ years of experience leading technologists
• Experience developing or leading cross-functional teams of technologists
• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
• Experience leading a product as a Product Owner or Product Manager
• Practical cloud native experience
• Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• Proven track record in designing and implementing latest security trends and products including Cloud based key management, use of advanced cryptography like ECC/ Homomorphic, certificates, enterprise identity management, PKI, single sign-on and OAuth
• Strong communication skills and abilities to present execution status Senior Executives
• Demonstrate a can-do, serial innovator with entrepreneurial mindset and be able to inspire others towards driving tangible outcomes
• Proven track record in delivering large, complex programs on time, budget with highest quality
• Critical thinking, ability to leverage expertise and challenge a solution and status quo applying experience and learning from past

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience working at code level
• Cloud certification
• Experience working at code level and reviewing
• Strong analytical, negotiation and partnering skills with ability to successfully navigate in a matrix organization