Director of Software Engineering - Java, Spring boot, Kafka, AWS, REST,.

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 Commercial and Investment Bank's Equities Tech Team, 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
• 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
• Champions the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

• 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
• Expert in Computer science fundamentals - object oriented design, data structures, algorithm, problem solving, complexity analysis, server side development experience with Core Java & multi-threading.
• Experience with Messaging broker - Kafka , AMPS
• Expert in Cloud Technology - AWS.
• Experience with REST API, Spring boot, ORM
• Experience with RDBMS/No-SQL.
• Experience with Scripting - Shell/Python
• Ability to work in a team environment and partner with development and support teams globally, ability to lead projects independently and provide guidance to the team.
• Strong business focus and a clear understanding that technology is the means to achieving business goals.
• Effective partnership skills to work with the business to ensure requirements are captured correctly.
• Ability to perform in a fast paced environment where time to delivery and/or resolution is critical to protect/increase revenue stream.

• Knowledge of software engineering practices for SDLC including coding standards, code reviews, build processes & operations
• 18 years of progressive experience in systems and technology, preferably with exposure to financial systems.