Senior Director of Software Engineering

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As the Senior Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within Connected Commerce Technology, you will lead multiple technical areas and oversee the activities of various departments. You will collaborate across technical domains, applying your expertise cross-functionally to promote the adoption and implementation of technical methods within diverse teams. Your role is crucial in helping the firm stay at the forefront of industry trends, best practices, and technological advancements.

Job responsibilities

• Leads multiple technology and process implementations across departments to achieve firmwide technology objectives
• Manages multiple areas with strategic transactional focus
• Provides leadership and high-level direction to teams while frequently overseeing employee populations across multiple platforms, divisions, and lines of business
• Acts as the primary interface with senior leaders, stakeholders, and executives, driving consensus across competing objectives
• Manages multiple stakeholders, complex projects, and large cross-product collaborations
• 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+ year of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise and more broadly across the organization
• Experience in managing large teams and organizations, with a track record of successful leadership in complex, matrixed environments in Customer Identity and Access Management Domain.
• Experience in developing and implementing Customer Identity strategies in a large organization.
• Experience in implementing Identity Verification & Proofing as a service across the organization with a Platform mindset.
• Experience in working with leading vendors in Digital Identity Domain.
• Experience in designing & implementing Digital Identity as a verifiable credential with in and outside of organization.
• Demonstrated prior experience influencing across highly matrixed, complex organizations and delivering value at scale
• Experience leading complex projects supporting system design, testing, and operational stability
• Deep expertise building and operating large scale high performance transactional environments with distributed systems and cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Deep expertise with enterprise design patterns and industry best practices with experience using modern technology (e.g., Java, Cassandra, Kafka) and design patterns (e.g., micro services, APIs)
• Experience with building, leading and mentoring technology teams and next level leaders within the organization.

• A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks
• Experience in managing Mobile teams
• AWS Certification.
• SRE mindset Culture/Approaches: To run better production systems by creating engineering solutions to operational problems.
• Ability to program (structured and OO) with one or more high level languages, such as Python, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and JavaScript
• Infrastructure budgeting and finances. Infrastructure cost optimization