JPMorganChase
Principal Java Software Engineer - Executive Director of Software Engineering
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.
We are looking for a deeply technical, hands-on Director of Software Engineering to lead and work shoulder-to-shoulder with our engineering team on the Equity Plan Services platform — a high-throughput, regulated financial system handling trade execution, RSU/ESPP release processing, cash movement orchestration, and client reporting at scale. You will write code, design distributed systems, own production reliability, and drive architecture decisions across the stack — from Spring Boot microservices and Kafka event pipelines to AWS-native infrastructure and SQL/NoSQL data layers. Equally important is your ability to communicate with precision: working directly with Business, Trading, and Operations teams to translate requirements into engineering solutions and explain technical trade-offs without losing the room.
Job responsibilities
- Directly manages multiple engineering domains with a strategic focus on microservices and cloud infrastructure.
- Sets and scales multi-department strategy for event-driven system design and cloud architecture using enterprise-authorized tools.
- Establishes standards for microservices architecture, cloud deployment strategies, and automated testing.
- Applies knowledge of cloud and infrastructure tools to drive cross-domain integration.
- Utilizes enterprise-authorized automation capabilities for measurable performance improvements.
- Provides leadership and high-level direction to engineering teams across multiple platforms.
- Oversees operations across various business lines, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
- Acts as the primary interface with senior leaders and stakeholders, driving consensus across technical objectives.
- Sets and scales multi-department strategy for agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) to drive firmwide objectives (speed, scalability, reliability, and cost-to-serve), including portfolio-level standards for AI-orchestrated delivery workflows, release governance, automated test modernization, resilience engineering, and incident response acceleration; establishes guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, traceability, and reuse.
- Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to drive cross-domain reuse and measurable capacity unlock outcomes across departments.
- Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams
- 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
- Experience developing or leading large or cross-functional teams of technologists
- Expert-level backend engineering in Java (Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Hibernate/JPA) and/or Python; strong SQL and data modeling across relational and NoSQL systems.
- Deep AWS experience: ECS/EKS, Lambda, Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, Glue, CloudWatch — able to design, deploy, and operate cloud-native systems end-to-end.
- Hands-on Apache Kafka experience: topic design, consumer group management, exactly-once delivery, and stream processing patterns.
- Solid grasp of distributed systems fundamentals: consistency models, CAP trade-offs, idempotency, distributed transactions, and failure modes.
- Strong CI/CD and test engineering practice: you build the pipelines and write tests alongside the team.
- Excellent communicator — able to move fluidly between engineering teams and business/operations stakeholders in the same conversation.
- Experience leading multi-organization adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering operating models (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment), including defining governance (human-in-the-loop decisioning, quality gates), measurement frameworks, and secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs across teams.
- Deep understanding of responsible AI risk, controls, and resiliency/security expectations at scale, with demonstrated ability to advise senior leaders on safe adoption, portfolio governance, and reuse-first strategies.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Proven experience delivering in a regulated environment (financial services preferred) with working knowledge of audit, entitlement, and compliance requirements.
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
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