Sr Director of Software Engineering-Kubernetes

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As a Senior Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Core Foundational Platforms, you lead multiple technical areas, manage the activities of multiple departments, and collaborate across technical domains. Your expertise is applied cross-functionally to drive the adoption and implementation of technical methods within various teams and aid the firm in remaining at the forefront of industry trends, best practices, and technological advances. This role involves strategic planning, technical leadership, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable and secure solutions. Delivery responsibilities scan both internal private and public clouds.. Position has the potential to expand beyond the Kubernetes domain to other runtime compute products. 

Job responsibilities

 

• Leads multiple technology and process implementations across departments to achieve firmwide technology objectives
• Directly manages multiple areas with strategic transactional focus
• Provides leadership and high-level direction to teams while frequently overseeing employee populations across multiple platforms, divisions, and lines of business
• Acts as the primary interface with senior leaders, stakeholders, and executives, driving consensus across competing objectives
• Manages multiple stakeholders, complex projects, and large cross-product collaborations
• Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams
• Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
• Build, lead, mentor, and manage a team of Kubernetes engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
• Integrate software engineers within a ‘focus area’ construct
• Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of Kubernetes clusters to ensure optimal performance and reliability.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other stakeholders to align Kubernetes solutions with business and technical goals.
• Implement best practices for container orchestration, security, and monitoring within the organization.

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

 

• Formal training or certification on system design, application development, testing, and operational stability concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ year of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise and more broadly across the organization
• Experience developing or leading large or cross-functional teams of technologists
• Demonstrated prior experience influencing across highly matrixed, complex organizations and delivering value at scale
• Experience leading complex projects supporting system design, testing, and operational stability
• Experience in designing, implementing and maintaining a large Kubernetes environment. 
• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
• Extensive practical cloud native experience
• Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Proven experience in managing engineering teams and delivering cloud-native solutions. 
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Proficiency in DevOps practices and tools (e.g., CI/CD, Terraform, Helm).
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with agile methodologies and project management tools.
   

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 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 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 center