Director of SWE - Trade Surveillance Technology

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 Corporate Oversight & Governance Technology organization, 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 the development, and implementation of cutting-edge software solutions that align with business goals and regulatory requirements. This role requires a strong leader with exceptional technical expertise, and the ability to foster a culture of innovation and excellence.

Job responsibilities

• Develop and implement technical solutions aligned with business goals and regulatory requirements for Trading Surveillance.


• Makes decisions that influence teams resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures


• Deliver scalable and efficient technical solutions.


• Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies.


• Manage and mentor engineering leaders and team members.


• Identify and mitigate potential risks in technology implementations.


• Foster strong partnerships with other departments, such as product management, compliance, and LOB Technology, to ensure alignment and collaboration on shared objectives.


• Encourage innovation and continuous improvement.


• Promote technical excellence and best practices.


• Promote agile practices for development teams.


• Champions the firm s culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Solid track record and 10+ years of experience in building large scale data warehouses and enterprise data platforms handling critical data.


• Experience developing or leading cross-functional teams of technologists


• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent


• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.


• Ability to drive innovation and foster a culture of continuous improvement.


• Practical cloud native experience


• Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Strong understanding of industry regulations and compliance standards related to trading surveillance.


• Hands-on experience with Data Warehousing/Lakehouse platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake


• Experience with query processing and tuning reports from Hive, SparkSQL


• Experience with ETL and processing real-time data on Hadoop platform.


• Familiar with Data Ponds, Data Mesh concepts


• Data management, archival, reporting and analytical experience.


• Strong in Object Oriented Development and Java platform


• Java Frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate


• Experience developing SOA services (REST & XML/RPC)


• RDBMS experience preferably Oracle


• Strong track records in Designing scalable solutions. Hands-on with latest development trends in IT Industry


• Knowledge of modern development lifecycles, such as Agile and iterative development