Director of Software Engineering

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

As an Artifacts Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Technology Office, 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:

• 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
• 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
• Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
• Work collaboratively to ensure team and organization standards are followed and the team is consistently focused on continuous improvements and sustained delivery.
• Employ simple design and pragmatic implementation techniques to drive business value.
• Pair program with team members to build high-quality solutions.
• Be passionate about technology and constantly seek ways of learning new technology and practices
• Mentor junior team members to progress their technical and professional skills. Be open and actively seeking learning opportunities from more senior team members

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise.
• 15+ years of software engineering experience, with firm understanding of various design patterns, cloud native microservices architecture and engineering practices
• Strong experience working with Java, Spring Boot and Oracle, along with good understanding of pypi, nuget, npm and maven build tooling
• Comfortable in more than two programming languages with a strong understanding of fundamental web/internet technologies.
• Experience with both Private and Public clouds ranging from IaaS to PaaS solutions. Hands on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS and ECS is required
• Practical experience with unit testing using tools like JUnit and Mockito
• Experience developing or leading cross-functional teams of technologists
• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
• Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Proficient in SQL preferably across multiple databases.
• Grafana, Cortex, Kibana
• Datadog, Cloudwatch
• JFrog Artifactory