Location: Jersey City, NJ, United States

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 JPMorganChase within the Credit Technology team in Corporate & Investment Banking Technology, 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.

This role will serve as Commercial & Specialized Industries Lending Portfolio Technology Lead responsible for building a new portfolio management system to serve our clients across commercial and specialized industries. This platform will leverage data and AI capabilities to drive revenue opportunities and emerging risk concerns.

Job responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end design, development, and deployment of the new portfolio platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security as the Technical Design Authority.
• Architect hybrid cloud-native solutions using private and public cloud technologies.
• Develop robust, high-performance applications, focusing on data processing, AI-enabled analytics, and integration with critical enterprise systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Risk, Finance, Data Engineering, and Infrastructure, to gather requirements and deliver solutions.
• Create durable, reusable software frameworks that are leveraged across teams and functions
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices for code quality, testing, CI/CD, and documentation.
• Mentor and guide engineering teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal risk management policies.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation within the platform.
• Influence leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology teams
• Champion the firm’s culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

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
• Proficiency in object-oriented programming in Java with front-end development in ReactJS 
• Proven experience building robust, scalable enterprise applications utilizing microservices architecture and domain-driven design.
• Prior experience implementing AI-enabled innovations and agentic solutions for modern platforms with AI/ML capabilities.
• Experience building hybrid private and public cloud solutions with AWS and Gaia
• Experience building complex platforms that require in-depth knowledge of integrating cloud products with data meshes built in Databricks.
• Champion of Agile practices, and the adoption of AI tools in the software development lifecycle.
• Ability to develop agentic solutions and AI-assisted tools for the team.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience working at code level