Overview

Join to apply for the Director of Software Engineering - Executive Director role at JPMorganChase. 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 Engineer's Observability Platforms team, you lead a technical area and drive impact within teams, technologies, and projects firm wide. 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 AIOps innovation and solution delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead technology and process implementations to achieve functional technology objectives in the Observability Platforms space, providing essential services for Site Reliability Engineers, Operations and Engineers across the whole firm
• Deliver technical solutions that can be leveraged across multiple businesses and domains, including AIOps strategy for the future
• Work with vendor evaluations to decide roadmap for future strategic products, design and drive implementation
• Make decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
• Carries governance accountability for coding decisions, control obligations, and measures of success such as cost of ownership, maintainability, and portfolio operations
• Influence peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams
• Champion the firm’s culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Experience developing or leading cross-functional teams of technologists, ideally in large scale Observability Platforms (e.g., IBM Netcool, Watson CloudPak AiOps, Tivoli, SCOM, SMARTS, Dynatrace, Splunk, Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana or telemetry transport like Kafka, OTEL)
• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience; advanced experience leading technologists to solve complex technical items within your domain
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Knowledge of software applications installation and configuration automation, through automation-as-code principles
• Knowledge and implementation of AWS infrastructure or other cloud design and implementation

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Experience researching and developing AIOps or ML solutions
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Experience with one or more observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk, etc.

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected attributes. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices, mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About The Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

Job Details

• Seniority level: Director
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology

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Locations and Related Roles

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

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