Senior Manager of Software Engineering

When you mentor and advise multiple agile technical teams and move financial risk technologies forward, it’s a big challenge with big impact. Join our team and be an integral part of our agile organization to deliver the best risk solutions for the firm.

As a Senior Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Financial Risk Technologies division, you serve in a leadership role by providing technical coaching and advisory for multiple technical teams, as well as anticipate the needs and potential dependencies of other functions within the firm.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide overall direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level software engineers that work on basic to moderately complex tasks
• Be accountable for decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
• Ensures successful collaboration across teams and stakeholders
• Identifies and mitigates issues to execute a book of work while escalating issues as necessary
• Provides input to leadership regarding budget, approach, and technical considerations to improve operational efficiencies and functionality for the team

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience. In addition, 2 + years of experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise

• Ability to guide and coach teams on approach to achieve goals aligned against a set of strategic initiatives
• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience working at code level 
• Expertise in Java, Spring Core, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and REACT.
• Proficiency in Object-Oriented Design (OOD) and Test Driven Development (TTD), with hands-on experience in test automation frameworks like Junit, Mockito, and Cucumber.
• Familiarity with log/metric collection and monitoring technologies like ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics, and Splunk.
• Exposure to NoSQL databases such as Cassandra.
• Experience with event-driven processing using Kafka.
• Hands-on experience with building CI/CD pipelines using Git, Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Fortify.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Expertise in AWS is a plus.
• JavaScript and HTML experience is beneficial. 
• Agile software development experience adhering to a product operating model.
• Knowledge of Domain Driven Design, microservices patterns, and modern architectures.