Senior Vice President, Software Engineering - Wealth Management

Are you ready to shape the future of technology in a dynamic, agile environment? At JPMorganChase, you’ll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact by delivering trusted, market-leading solutions. You’ll collaborate with talented professionals, grow your skills, and help us stay ahead in a rapidly evolving industry. We value your expertise and passion for solving complex challenges. Join us and be part of a team where your contributions truly matter.

Job Summary:
As a Senior Lead Software Engineer in Asset Wealth Management, you will play a key role in enhancing, building, and delivering high-quality technology products. You will work within an agile team, applying your deep technical expertise to solve diverse challenges across multiple technologies and applications. You will help shape our architecture, drive innovation, and foster a collaborative team culture. Your work will directly support our mission to deliver secure, stable, and scalable solutions.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead and contribute to the design, development, and deployment of applications aligned with business and functional requirements.
• Build Java-based microservices using streaming, non-blocking, and reactive programming paradigms.
• Architect and operate scalable systems leveraging Kafka, IBM MQ, Kubernetes, Redis, Amazon MSK, and AWS services.
• Drive adoption of domain-driven design and support multi-asset trading capabilities.
• Define and maintain technical documentation and service APIs, ensuring robust logging, auditability, security, and monitoring.
• Participate in API design sessions and guide integration approaches.
• Lead and participate in code reviews, enforcing high maintainability and quality through TDD/BDD practices.
• Validate service scalability and resilience using mock testing frameworks and performance testing strategies.
• Mentor and develop junior engineers, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented culture.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Advanced proficiency in Java with a strong willingness to code hands-on.
• Experience delivering distributed systems handling large data volumes and real-time distribution.
• Strong experience with CI/CD, DevOps toolchains, and agile, test-driven delivery.
• Hands-on experience with caching technologies such as Redis, GemFire, or Apache Ignite.
• Hands-on experience with messaging and streaming platforms like Kafka and IBM MQ.
• Solid understanding of microservices, REST APIs, SQL and NoSQL databases, and event-driven architectures.
• Ability to mentor, coach, and grow engineering talent.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Experience with the Spring ecosystem and AWS cloud services.
• Experience building trading systems; familiarity with FIX protocol.
• Ability to solve complex, mission-critical problems with a pragmatic, hands-on approach.
• Continuous learner and early adopter of emerging technologies and practices.

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

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 Asset & Wealth Management delivers industry-leading investment management and private banking solutions. Asset Management provides individuals, advisors and institutions with strategies and expertise that span the full spectrum of asset classes through our global network of investment professionals. Wealth Management helps individuals, families and foundations take a more intentional approach to their wealth or finances to better define, focus and realize their goals.​