Senior Director of Software Engineering (Permanent) in London

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. 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. 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.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; 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.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.Experience integrating with booking, pricing, and risk ecosystems (e.g., Strong experience with front-office UI/tooling (e.g., React/TypeScript) and automation for workflow-critical systems.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. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives. We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.