Director Of Software Engineering

Job Category Software Engineering 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 JPMorgan Chase within Consumer and Community Banking you will be guiding product teams to deploy infrastructure optimally as a part of their modernization journey assess for application readiness in moving to public cloud enable application teams to effectively perform run functions such as upgrades incident support self-serve etc Your leadership and experience in public cloud migrations of complex systems anticipating problems and finding ways to mitigate risk and issues will be key in leading numerous public cloud initiatives from ideation to production by collaborating with cross-functional teams Some of the key pillars you would be driving are Solution Engineering Technology life cycle management Problem Management Resiliency and Automation Job responsibilities Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver robust cloud-based solutions that drive enhanced customer experiences Guide various product teams on the standards and best practices related to the Public Cloud process and help them mitigate issues in production cloud with minimal downtime Lead a team to Develop enhance and maintain established standards and best practices Drive self-service and deliver on a strategy to operate on a build broad use of Amazon s utility computing web services e g AWS EC2 AWS S3 AWS RDS AWS CloudFront AWS EFS CloudWatch EKS Own end-to-end platform issues problem management help provide solutions to platform production issues on the AWS Cloud ensure the applications are available as expected Identify opportunities to improve resiliency availability secure high performing platforms in Public Cloud using JPMC best practices Improve reliability quality and reduce to time to resolve issues in production incidents on software applications in prod Implement continuous process improvement including but not limited to policy procedures and production monitoring and reduce time to resolve Identify coordinate and implement initiatives projects and activities that create efficiencies and optimize technical processing Analyze upcoming platform level changes into production ensure communication of relevant impact Measure and optimize system performance with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward getting ahead of customer needs and innovating to continually improve Provide primary operational support and engineering for the public cloud platform Show leadership for any production issue and manage all the corresponding team in working towards fix and also should ensure minimal customer impact Debug and optimize systems and automate routine tasks Collaborate with a cross-functional team to identify potential risks in production and opportunities to improve user experiences at every interaction Drive work streams to ensure Applications meet strict operational readiness for Public Cloud On-boarding Evaluate production readiness through game days resiliency tests and chaos engineering exercises Utilize programming languages like Java Python SQL Node Go and Scala Open Source RDBMS and NoSQL databases Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes and a variety of AWS tools and services Required qualifications capabilities and skills Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10 years applied experience In addition 5 years of experience leading technologists to manage anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise Strong understanding of business technology drivers and their impact on architecture design performance and monitoring best practices Dynamic individual with excellent communication skills who can adapt verbiage and style to the audience at hand and deliver critical information in a clear and concise message Strong experience in managing stakeholders at all levels Strong analytical thinker with business acumen and the ability to assimilate information quickly with a solution-based focus on incident and problem management Expertise using DevOps tools in a cloud environment such as Ansible Artifactory Docker GitHub Jenkins Expertise using monitoring solutions like CloudWatch Prometheus Datadog Experience Knowledge of writing Infrastructure-as-Code IaC using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform Experience with one or more public cloud platforms like AWS GCP Azure Experience with one or more automation tools like Terraform Puppet Ansible Experience with high volume mission critical applications and their interdependencies with other applications and databases Ability to leverage Splunk and Dynatrace to identify and troubleshoot issues Experience of ITIL process such as incident problem and life cycle management Experience with high volume mission critical applications and building upon messaging and or event-driven architectures Knowledge of container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes Strong understanding of architecture design and business processes Keen understanding of financial and budget management control and optimization of Public Cloud expenses Experience in working in in large collaborative teams to achieve organizational goals Passionate about building an innovative culture Experience with production non-production support of highly available applications Experience with system performance monitoring and operational capacity management Strong communication and collaboration skills Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills Bachelor s degree in computer science or other technical scientific discipline A proactive approach to spotting problems areas for improvement and performance bottlenecks AWS Certification SRE mindset Culture Approaches To run better production systems by creating engineering solutions to operational problems Ability to program structured and OO with one or more high level languages such as Python Java C C Ruby and JavaScript Infrastructure budgeting and finances Infrastructure cost optimization