Overview
Director of . Morgan Personal Investing leads the Investment Platform area, steering strategy and execution across multiple high-impact teams. You will scale systems, mentor leaders, and partner with Product, Risk, Compliance to align roadmaps with business goals. You’ll deliver reliable, secure, and scalable fintech software in a dynamic environment. This role offers the chance to shape a market-leading platform and AI-enabled engineering workflows that impact millions of investors.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive strategy with Product across multiple time horizons
- Translate strategy into requirements, prioritize roadmaps, remove blockers, and ensure on-time execution with stakeholders (Business, Marketing, Operations, other Engineering leaders)
- Enable cross-functional alignment within JPM PI teams through efficient processes, roadmaps and documentation
- Oversee architectural decisions for scalability, reliability, performance and cost efficiency; review major design proposals
- Promote platform thinking, reuse and best practices; manage technical debt with clear criteria and payoff plans
- Oversee engineering costs, vendor management, ROI, compliance and SLAs
- Hire, develop and retain top talent; manage hiring budgets and headcount forecasting
- Mentor and grow engineering managers and senior ICs; provide career pathways and succession planning
- Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and operational excellence
- Own incident management, on-call strategy and post-incident reviews to improve reliability
- Partner with Risk, Compliance and Controls for audits and regulatory alignment
- Architect and govern agentic AI-enabled engineering workflows with guardrails for validation, security and reuse across teams
Key requirements
- 5+ years as a software engineer
- 10+ years in technical leadership
- Strong product and business mindset
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management
- Strong background in modern architectures (distributed systems, cloud-native, event-driven) and DevOps
- Proven track record leading and scaling agile teams delivering high-availability systems
- Excellent coaching, feedback, and conflict-resolution skills
- Experience designing and leading adoption of agentic AI-enabled development practices with governance and auditability
- Understanding of responsible AI use, security, resiliency, data sensitivity and risk-based governance
- communication
- stakeholder management
- collaboration
- distributed systems
- cloud-native architectures
- event-driven architectures
Director of Software Engineering- J.P. Morgan Personal Investing- Accounting & Post Trading in London employer: JP Morgan Chase
Morgan is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that prioritises diversity and inclusion while fostering employee growth through comprehensive coaching and development opportunities. As a global leader in financial services, we empower our teams to drive impactful product management and AI enablement, ensuring that every employee can contribute meaningfully to our clients' success in a collaborative environment located at the heart of the financial sector.
