Senior Director of Software Engineering

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As a Senior Director of Software Engineering at JPMorganChase within the Payments Technologies team, you lead a technical area and drive impact within teams, technologies, and projects across departments. You will 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 lead a diverse team of highly skilled technologist working across the globe.

Job responsibilities

• Leads multiple technology and process implementations across departments to achieve functional technology objectives
• Manages multiple stakeholders, complex projects, and large cross-product collaborations
• Acts as the primary interface with senior leaders, stakeholders, and executives, driving consensus across competing objectives
• Makes decisions that influence teams' resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
• Carries governance accountability for delivery 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
• Accounts for decisions that influence teams' resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
• Innovates and identifies opportunity areas to introduce technology, expand, enhance the technology product and create new capabilities that drive value and business objectives.
• Provides management and leadership for diverse, highly motivated globally dispersed direct-report teams. Builds effective and inclusive high performing teams
• Uses 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, 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
• 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
• Experience developing or leading cross-functional teams of technologists
• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
• Practical cloud native experience
• Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• 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

• Experience evaluating solution providers, creating and reviewing architecture, design, and proposed solutions
• Modern technology stack certifications including cloud computing, AI, ML and other relevant technologies
• Managing globally dispersed teams
• Strong analytical, negotiation, collaboration, and partnering skills with the ability to successfully navigate in a matrix organization