Senior Manager of Software Engineering
About The Position
As a Senior VP Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Bank (CCB) SMB organization, you will provide strategic leadership and hands-on technical oversight for complex software initiatives in the Business Access and tools domain. You will drive architecture, delivery, and operational excellence across distributed systems and cloud platforms, partnering with cross-product teams to build secure, scalable, and resilient solutions that deliver measurable business impact. Key Responsibilities Lead end-to-end design and development of new systems; deep dive into existing architectures and processes to propose pragmatic modernization paths and remediation strategies. Collaborate across product, engineering, and platform teams to build scalable, robust solutions that meet business outcomes and reliability objectives. Rapidly develop proofs-of-concept to validate technology approaches, de-risk decisions, and accelerate stakeholder alignment. Proactively communicate status, trade-offs, and risk mitigations to senior management and business stakeholders; drive transparency and accountability. Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues, improving operational stability etc. Operate effectively in an agile environment; set clear standards for engineering excellence and delivery quality. Lead pilot initiatives to evaluate emerging technologies and methodologies (e.g., agentic patterns, advanced CI/CD, cloud-native services), quantifying impact and fit. Elevate engineering practices through coaching, mentorship, and talent development; build next-level leaders and succession depth. Ensure adherence to cybersecurity and technology controls; champion secure-by-design and resilience patterns across the SDLC.
Requirements
- Formal training/certification in software engineering concepts and 7+ years of applied software engineering experience; plus 2+ years leading technologists to resolve complex technical challenges within your domain.
- Expert-level hands-on development experience in Java/J2EE and Spring Boot; strong proficiency with modern front-end technologies.
- Proficiency in Python for tooling, automation, and services.
- Strong experience with AWS services and cloud-native architectures.
- Deep experience with distributed systems, SQL databases.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for commercially used digital platforms (web and/or mobile).
- Proven track record building and operating large-scale, high-performance digital applications using microservices, APIs, and modern design patterns (including agentic approaches where applicable).
- Excellent programming and problem-solving skills, including hands-on development, support, and bug fixing for real-time systems with stringent latency and reliability requirements.
- Experience leading complex projects that improve system architecture, testing rigor, and resilience; advanced understanding of CI/CD, application resiliency, observability, and security within agile methodologies.
- Proficiency across the full Software Development Life Cycle (requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations), including automation and continuous delivery methods.
- Experience building, leading, and mentoring technology teams and developing next-level leaders.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with event-driven architectures, streaming (e.g., Kafka), and asynchronous messaging.
- Hands-on familiarity with modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular).
- Experience with observability stacks (logs, metrics, traces), SRE practices, and incident management.
- Exposure to agentic system patterns and LLM-integrated services for developer productivity and operations.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end design and development of new systems
- Propose pragmatic modernization paths and remediation strategies
- Collaborate across product, engineering, and platform teams to build scalable, robust solutions
- Rapidly develop proofs-of-concept to validate technology approaches
- Proactively communicate status, trade-offs, and risk mitigations to senior management and business stakeholders
- Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues
- Operate effectively in an agile environment
- Lead pilot initiatives to evaluate emerging technologies and methodologies
- Elevate engineering practices through coaching, mentorship, and talent development
- Ensure adherence to cybersecurity and technology controls
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
