
Senior Manager of Software Engineering - Sanctions
at J.P. Morgan
Posted a month ago
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- City
- Tampa
- Country
- United States
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Senior Manager of Software Engineering responsible for leading and coaching multiple technical teams within the Commercial & Investment Bank, driving technical direction, operational efficiency, and cross-team collaboration. The role requires hands-on expertise in backend systems, APIs, databases, observability and automation, with accountability for technical decisions, budgets, and delivery of complex work. You will mentor engineers, lead communities of practice, influence technical strategy, and ensure secure, high-quality production code and operational stability. Experience with sanctions screening or related regulated-domain solutions is a plus.
Location: Tampa, FL, United States
When you mentor and advise multiple technical teams and move financial technologies forward, it’s a big challenge with big impact. You were made for this.
As a Senior Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorganChase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, you serve in a leadership role by providing technical coaching and advisory for multiple technical teams, as well as anticipate the needs and potential dependencies of other functions within the firm. As an expert in your field, your insights influence budget and technical considerations to advance operational efficiencies and functionalities.
Job responsibilities
- Provide overall direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level software engineers that work on basic to moderately complex tasks
- Be accountable for decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
- Ensures successful collaboration across teams and stakeholders
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
- Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Interpret technical and business objectives, identifying challenges and providing innovative solutions to address them
- Identifies and mitigates issues to execute a book of work while escalating issues as necessary
- Provides input to leadership regarding budget, approach, and technical considerations to improve operational efficiencies and functionality for the team
- Creates a culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect for team members and prioritizes diverse representation
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Experience leading teams of technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
- Strong background in UNIX, Apache Tomcat, Databases Management, and Oracle SQL
- Experience in writing and maintaining REST / SOAP Based APIs
- Understanding of observability tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, or Grafana
- Demonstrated ability to debug complex systems and drive technical discussions independently
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
- Ability to guide and coach teams on approach to achieve goals aligned against a set of strategic initiatives
- Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
- In-depth knowledge of the services industry and their IT systems
- Experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and expertise in technology disciplines
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience in working in a highly regulated environment / industry
- Proven experience in designing distributed applications in Agile environment
- Experience with Sanctions Domain and/or familiarity with Sanctions Screening solutions, Pega PRPC workflows
- Exposure to full software development lifecycle in large-scale systems, preferably within the financial industry




