Senior Director of Software Engineering
Software Engineering
London, UK
Join us to shape the future of trading technology at JPMorganChase. As a leader, you will drive impactful solutions for the Global Commodities Exotics Desk, collaborating with top talent and business partners. You’ll have the opportunity to influence strategy, deliver high-value outcomes, and foster a culture of innovation and excellence. Your work will empower traders and transform the way we deliver technology. Be part of a team where your leadership and vision make a difference.
As a Senior Director of Engineering in the Commercial & Investment Bank (CIB) Markets Technology team, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for front-office, desk-critical workflow and trading technology. You will set the vision and drive execution for end-to-end stack delivery, supporting the full trade lifecycle from execution to reporting. You will partner with Trading leadership, business management, Quants/Strats, and Functional leads to shape the technology roadmap and ensure production readiness. You will build and mentor a high-performing team, fostering a culture of ownership and excellence. Your leadership will directly impact the desk’s success and innovation.
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.
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.
Lead engineering for front-office trading technology, driving innovation and team excellence for the Global Commodities Exotics Desk.
