Sr Director Software Engineering (Terraform)-Compute/Cloud Tech-Executive Director

If you are looking for a game-changing career, working for one of the world's leading financial institutions, you’ve come to the right place.

As a Principal Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Compute & Cloud Technology Platforms, you provide expertise and engineering excellence as an integral part of an agile team to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Leverage your advanced technical capabilities and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes across various technologies to support one or more of the firm’s portfolios.

Job responsibilities

• Define target state architecture for Infrastructure as Code within the Compute and Cloud construct, optimizing business value, delivering best-in-class solutions for today’s and tomorrow’s needs
• Provide Architecture solutions for Infrastructure as Code with emphasis on Terraform, ensuring that the firm’s platforms and blueprints are effectively leveraged
• Collaborate with architects and engineers across Infrastructure Platforms Cloud Foundational Services to design and build self-healing and resilient Terraform patterns across private and public cloud, ensuring they are secure, technically sound, and fiscally reasonable
• Analyze and debug IAC/Terraform code with some development when necessary for supporting large scale and custom solutions 
• Engage with senior stakeholders across all technology lines of business, ensuring adherence to the division’s plans and expected outputs, while fostering an environment of collaboration and shared success
• Lead sessions on Infrastructure as Code implementation for complex business needs and across a multi-cloud construct and document design concepts and target state architecture
• Lead in-depth design reviews with application teams, platform teams and senior leadership throughout the roadmap delivery to help provide Infrastructure as Code/Terraform solutions and software for reliability, speed, and scale
• Develop the rolling multi-year roadmap and maintain alignment to our business clients and technology strategy and priorities along with firmwide architecture governance and principles

 Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience  with architecture and/or software development delivering platforms at scale via any of the major public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Expert in one or more programming language(s)(Terrafrom or Pulumi)
• Solid Application Architecture/Design concepts: client/server, n-tier, design patterns, cloud using Terraform or similar IAC solutions
• Expertise & passionate about designing and developing code for large scale IAC solutions supporting major public cloud providers incorporating resilience, scalability, availability, performance, security, etc.
• Experience leading a product as a Product Owner or Product Manager
• Ability to present and effectively communicate with Senior Leaders and Executives
• Understanding of the business
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Broad understanding of the technologies utilized across the IAC, CI/CD, SRE and public cloud domains, ability to rationalize and assess pros and cons of solutions and technical alternatives
• Exceptional communication skills and interpersonal skills are essential, to explain and influence both business and technical stakeholders and partners at all levels
• Proven ability to organize, prioritize, multi-task and drive multiple agendas in a fast-paced and constantly changing environments
• Expertise working in an Agile project environment and the ability to operate development and architecture discussion forums, through a deep understanding of current tools and techniques
• Insight into core financial systems and understanding of the industry
• Highly driven and results orientated: Drives results through people, communication, influence and interaction

JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including