Director of Software Engineering

About the role

As a Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase, within the Commercial and Investment Bank, at reconciliations platform you are accountable for the target-state architecture and delivery outcomes of a new reconciliations stack replacing multiple legacy capabilities. You define reference architectures, approved patterns, and measurable non-functional targets, and you drive consistent implementation across multiple engineering teams.

What you'll do

• Owns the target-state platform architecture and ensure consistent implementation through reference architectures, approved patterns, and reusable “golden path” guidance
• Defines measurable non-functional requirements and targets (for example throughput, latency, recovery objectives, correctness guarantees
• Decides and documents key engineering trade-offs (for example consistency versus latency, streaming versus batch, storage layout, replay strategy
• Leads delivery outcomes across multiple workstreams, including real-time processing, batch processing, workflow and state, controls and reporting, and migration tooling
• Drives execution discipline through dependency management, milestone planning, risk reduction, capacity planning, and escalation of cross-organization blockers

What you need

• System design
• Java
• AWS
• Reconciliation
• ETL
• DynamoDB

Good to have

• Spark