Director of Software Engineering - Equities Risk
Aumni
Software Engineering
Jersey City, NJ, USA
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 JPMorgan Chase within the Equities Risk Technology team, 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.
Job responsibilities
- Leads multiple technology implementations across workstreams to achieve technology and business objectives
- Directly manages multiple areas with strategic transactional focus and accelerating delivery
- Provides leadership and direction to teams while frequently overseeing multiple platforms at a high-level and in detail
- Acts as the interface with stakeholders and partners, driving consensus across competing objectives
- Manages multiple stakeholders, complex projects, and large cross-product collaborations
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Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Deep expertise in Java with multi-threaded, high-performance backend development at scale.
- Proven ability to lead, mentor and grow multiple engineering teams, setting technical direction, driving architectural standards and developing senior engineers and managers.
- Demonstrated track record architecting and delivering complex, large-scale distributed systems, including ownership of end-to-end design, algorithms and workflows.
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Proven experience designing and delivering distributed applications, event-driven systems and real-time processing pipelines at enterprise scale.
- Ability to partner with senior business stakeholders, product and technology leadership to shape strategy, roadmaps and investment decisions.
- Strong track record of organizational influence, including cross-functional leadership, vendor/partner management and driving change at scale.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skill
Financial markets background, ideally equity trading, market microstructure or front-office trading systems or Financial/Banking experience
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
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.
Drive innovation and solution delivery while leading a technical area and serving as a primary decision maker for your teams