AI Site Lead Executive Director - Director of Software Engineering
Executive Director who leads Wealth Management software and data engineering teams at JPMorgan Chase in Atlanta, serving as the Atlanta site lead — recruiting local talent, shaping engineering culture, and embedding generative AI and AI-assisted development tools into the engineering lifecycle while setting technical direction and enforcing engineering standards.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience
- Hands-on engineering leadership role
- Strong software engineering fundamentals — guide architectural decisions, enforce code quality, design for reliability and scale
- Hands-on familiarity with applied AI / generative AI and AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar)
- Track record building and scaling engineering teams, including recruiting and talent development
- Strong leadership skills — lead, motivate, and set culture for cross-functional and geographically distributed teams
- Energetic, fast-moving, comfortable operating with ambiguity and shifting priorities
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; influence senior stakeholders
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (business, product, risk, compliance)
- Champion responsible engineering and AI practices — model risk management, security, privacy, secure development standards
- Communicate strategy, progress, and risk/benefit trade-offs to senior and executive audiences
- Stay current on industry trends and emerging technologies, especially applied AI and AI-assisted engineering
Nice to have
- Experience in financial services / Wealth Management
- Experience establishing or growing a technology presence in a regional site
Full description
If you are looking for a game-changing career, working for one of the world's leading financial institutions, you’ve come to the right place.
As a Principal Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Asset & Wealth Management you, you provide expertise and engineering excellence as an integral part of an agile team to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Leverage your advanced technical capabilities and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes across various technologies to support one or more of the firm’s portfolios.
We are seeking an Executive Director to lead a Software Engineering team within Wealth Management Technology, with a mandate to embed applied AI and modern engineering practice into how the business builds software. This is a hands-on, fast-moving leadership role: the successful candidate will build and run a high-performing engineering organization, apply generative AI and AI-assisted development tools as a core part of how the team ships software, and serve as the Atlanta site lead for AWM Technology — recruiting local talent, shaping engineering culture, and establishing Atlanta as a center of engineering excellence. AWM technology moves fast; we are looking for an energetic, technically fearless leader who can operate at that speed and bring others along with them.
Job responsibilities
- Serve as the site lead for AWM Technology in Atlanta, acting as the face of the organization for the local site and a key partner to firmwide site leadership
- Own local talent strategy: recruit, hire, and build a high-performing engineering team in the Atlanta market; build the pipeline and brand needed to make Atlanta a magnet for top engineering talent
- Shape and promote a strong local engineering culture — instill engineering principles, technical excellence, and a builder mindset across the Atlanta site
- Foster energy, speed, and accountability consistent with AWM's fast-paced operating environment; create an environment where engineers want to stay, grow, and do their best work
- Represent the Atlanta site in cross-regional planning, resourcing, and culture-building efforts alongside other AWM Technology site and functional leaders
- Lead a software and data engineering teams delivering production-grade systems for Wealth Management, holding an uncompromising bar for code quality, testability, observability, and maintainable architecture
- Drive adoption of AI-enabled practices across the engineering lifecycle—from AI-assisted development tools to embedding AI capabilities into products that accelerate delivery of customer and business features, as force multipliers for the team (not one-off experiments).
- Set technical direction and review architectural decisions, balancing classical software engineering rigor with the speed and possibilities of the GenAI era