Director of Software Engineering - Operations, Java, AI

Job Description
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 JPMorganChase within the Home Loan - Servicing Technology group, you lead a technical area and drive impact within teams, technologies, and projects across departments. 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 innovation and solution delivery.
Job responsibilities

• Leads technology and process implementations to achieve functional technology objectives
• Demonstrates expertise in site reliability principles and balances features, efficiency, and stability.
• Effectively negotiates with peers and executive partners to ensure optimal outcomes for all.
• Drives the adoption of site reliability practices throughout the organization.
• Ensures teams demonstrate site reliability best practices, empirically proven through stability and reliability metrics.
• Drives a culture of continual improvement and solicits real-time feedback to enhance the customer experience.
• Delivers technical solutions that can be leveraged across multiple businesses and domains
• Provides personalized coaching for entry to mid-level team members.
• Ensures team documents and shares knowledge and innovations via internal forums, communities of practice, guilds, and conferences.
• Employs AI-driven solutions to streamline processes and enhance operational efficiency.
• Leverages AI tools to enhance operational effectiveness and automate processes, ensuring high-quality customer service.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
• Experience developing or leading cross-functional teams of technologists
• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
• Experience leading a product as a Product Owner or Product Manager
• Practical cloud native experience
• Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• Provides personalized coaching for entry to mid-level team members.
• Ensures team documents and shares knowledge and innovations via internal forums, communities of practice, guilds, and conferences.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Demonstrates an understanding of the fine balance between features, efficiency, and stability.
• Active experience or deep curiosity in applying AI to operations-such as LLM-based copilots, anomaly detection, automated runbooks, autonomous agents (e.g. CrewAI, LangGraph), or Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows for support.

About Us
Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America's households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.
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.
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About the Team
Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We're proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions - all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.