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Senior Director of Software Engineering

JPMorgan Chase
London, GBR
Full-time
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Job Responsibilities

  • Own the technology strategy for desk workflow and tooling, translating business priorities into actionable roadmaps.
  • Partner with Traders, Desk Heads, Functional leads, Quants/Strats, and Operations to identify pain points and deliver value.
  • Represent the desk technology organization in senior forums, driving alignment and securing commitments.
  • Oversee end-to-end delivery across the SDLC, ensuring predictable execution and front-office responsiveness.
  • Establish delivery rhythms and drive a production-first culture focused on observability, performance, and operational controls.
  • Lead the design and delivery of integrated workflows, ensuring consistency and traceability across the trade lifecycle.
  • Coordinate cross-team delivery for clean, aligned releases with strong change management.
  • Set and enforce engineering standards for architecture, secure coding, testing, CI/CD, and incident response.
  • Sets and scales multi-department strategy for agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) to drive firmwide objectives (speed, scalability, reliability, and cost-to-serve), including portfolio-level standards for AI-orchestrated delivery workflows, release governance, automated test modernization, resilience engineering, and incident response acceleration; establishes guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, traceability, and reuse.
  • Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to drive cross-domain reuse and measurable capacity unlock outcomes across departments.
  • Sponsor and lead resolution of complex production incidents and systemic issues.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

  • Deep expertise in software engineering, system design, testing strategy, operability, secure engineering, and performance.
  • Experience in Commodities Front Office Technology, supporting Exotics/Commodities quant desks and trader workflows.
  • Significant experience leading engineering teams and delivering end-to-end stack systems in production at scale.
  • Demonstrated success partnering with Front Office/Trading stakeholders in high-urgency environments.
  • Strong technical depth in Python (preferred) or ability to lead in a Python-based stack.
  • Experience leading multi-organization adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering operating models (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment), including defining governance (human-in-the-loop decisioning, quality gates), measurement frameworks, and secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs across teams.
  • Deep understanding of responsible AI risk, controls, and resiliency/security expectations at scale, with demonstrated ability to advise senior leaders on safe adoption, portfolio governance, and reuse-first strategies.
  • Proven ability to drive outcomes through multi-team dependencies and influence without authority.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

  • Experience integrating with booking, pricing, and risk ecosystems (e.g., Athena, SecDb, Quartz, RICE or equivalent).
  • Track record delivering front-to-back workflow integrations across complex organizations.
  • Strong experience with front-office UI/tooling (e.g., React/TypeScript) and automation for workflow-critical systems.
  • Experience modernizing legacy estates and improving resilience, observability, and incident management.

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