Sr Director of Software Engineering Equity Derivatives Technology

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About the role

As a leader within the Equity Derivatives Technology team at JPMorganChase, you will guide multiple technical areas, manage the activities of several departments, and collaborate across technical domains. Your expertise will be applied cross-functionally to drive the adoption and implementation of technical methods, ensuring the firm remains at the forefront of industry trends, best practices, and technological advances.

Responsibilities

• Leads multiple technology and process implementations across departments to achieve firmwide technology objectives.
• Directly manages multiple areas with strategic transactional focus.
• 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). This includes establishing portfolio-level standards for AI-orchestrated delivery workflows, release governance, automated test modernization, resilience engineering, and incident response acceleration. Defines 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years of applied experience. In addition, 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate, and solve complex technical items.
• Experience developing or leading large or cross-functional teams of technologists.
• Demonstrated prior experience influencing across highly matrixed, complex organizations and delivering value at scale.
• 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.
• Experience leading complex projects supporting system design, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent.
• Extensive practical cloud-native experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of Equity Derivative products.
• Strong technical skill in object-based databases and experience developing in Java, Python, or C++.

About Us

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses, and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional, and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years, and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location.
• Commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation for eligible roles, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions.
• Comprehensive health care coverage.
• On-site health and wellness centers.
• Retirement savings plan.
• Backup childcare.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Mental health support.
• Financial coaching.

About the Team

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services, and payments. Corporations, governments, and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk, and extends liquidity in markets around the world.