Manager of Software Engineering

As a Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Asset and Wealth Management, you lead multiple teams and manage day-to-day implementation activities by identifying and escalating issues and ensuring your team’s work adheres to compliance standards, business requirements, and tactical best practices. Drive critical multi-year initiatives on the TaxSmart platform, work with the team and the stakeholders to build a plan for these initiatives and think through the various flavors of testing that might be needed to ensure platform delivery, quality and stability. Additionally, drive multiyear quality initiatives around enhancing the QE team’s capabilities to achieve specific KRAs around F2B testing, defect metrics, insprint automation, reusability in frameworks, prod issue leakage, fungibility and cross-skilling etc.

Job responsibilities

• Builds holistic QE strategies around multi-year, multi application programs
• Designs, develops, and maintains reusable automated frameworks, tooling and utilities 
• Builds CI automation capability
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams and business users to understand application requirements and ensure comprehensive test coverage.
• Builds robust QE processes to ensure optimal and smart coverage and testing
• Collaborates with the release and devOps teams to support pre and post deployment tests
• Collaborates with the business users, tradeOps team, vendors etc to support UAT needs as applicable
• Lead & manages a team of technofunctional QEs

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience. In addition, demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience.
• Experience in having run complex initiatives in fintech organizations in the asset and wealth management domain
• Strong understanding of the asset and wealth management functioning and trading
• Strong programming skills in Python, NodeJS, Java, Groovy, SQL, big data and an appetite to be able work on diverse technology at scale
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and CI/CD tools.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, collaboration and presentation skills to work effectively in a team environment
• Good understanding of industry best practices around QE and dev around SDLC, metrics, release management etc
• Excellent leadership skills to be able to coach, groom and build clear career paths for individuals in the team 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience working at code level