Director of Software Engineering - Payments Technology
On-site · New York City, New York, United States
Job Summary
Director of Software Engineering — Payments Technology at JPMorganChase in Consumer and Community Banking leads a technical area, driving end-to-end delivery of low-latency, scalable payments-focused solutions. Partners with business and product stakeholders to translate complex needs into technical requirements and delivery plans; establishes engineering standards; champions cloud adoption; creates technology roadmaps; and provides governance for delivery, maintainability, and operational health. Requires 10+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years leading engineering teams, extensive experience designing cloud-native distributed systems (Java/Spring), working with large data systems (PostgreSQL, Oracle), and prior payments-domain exposure (tokenization). The role emphasizes influencing across organizations, ensuring non-functional requirements, and delivering at scale.
Required Qualifications
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
- 10+ years of applied software engineering experience
- 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams
- Experience leading large engineering organizations
- Delivering a critical product area with multiple time-sensitive deliverables
- Designing and building cloud-native, distributed systems with high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability
- Experience with Java and Spring
- Experience with PostgreSQL and Oracle
- Working knowledge of cloud technologies and modern software/product engineering practices
- Ability to influence across matrixed organizations
- Experience balancing competing priorities between product needs and technical capacity
- Ability to communicate programming models, systems, and APIs to stakeholders
- Previous experience in the payments domain, including tokenization
- Experience working at code level
- Relevant certifications or formal training in software engineering concepts
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