Director of Software Engineering - C++ - Global Head of Derivatives Exchange Connectivity

As a Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank, specifically as part of the 100+ F&O Execution Technology team, you will hold a pivotal leadership role. You will be accountable to the wider Derivatives Execution leadership, playing a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, creating, and securely delivering top-notch technology products that are both robust and scalable. Your leadership, technical expertise, and problem-solving skills will significantly influence business outcomes and address a broad range of challenges across diverse technologies and applications.

Based in London at 25 Bank Street, you will work closely with the F&O technology and business leadership in the region as well as the wider global group. You will lead a team of 8 C++ engineers across Singapore, India, and New Jersey, and manage 5 Exchange Integration/DevOps engineers in London and Houston. Your leadership will be instrumental in building out a full global derivatives exchange connectivity platform to service both agency client flow and internal needs from other JPM lines of business. You will drive strategic decision‑making, balancing the development of best‑in‑breed in‑house technologies with the selective use of competitive vendor offerings where appropriate.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide strong technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Your leadership will be crucial in making key architectural decisions, not only within the exchange layer but also within the wider trading stack.
• Form strong partnerships with other groups within derivatives, cash, and wider areas, mapping out opportunities for technology synergies.
• Ensure that solutions are fully compliant with critical global regulatory reporting, surveillance, and control mandates as they evolve.
• Develop secure and high‑quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.
• Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Serve as a function‑wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus, actively contributing to the engineering community as an advocate of firm‑wide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Influence peers and project decision‑makers to consider the use and application of leading‑edge technologies.
• Add to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Formal training or certification on C++ concepts and proficient advanced experience.
• Hands‑on practical C++ experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Proficiency in C++ on Unix/Linux operating systems.
• Scripting skills to automate day‑to‑day development and testing tasks.
• Excellent understanding of software and hardware interaction.
• Expertise in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines.
• Strong computer science fundamentals such as multithreading, object‑oriented development.
• Ability to work closely with various teams including Application Development, Business Analyst & Operations.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• BS degree, preferably in Computer Science / Engineering or similar degree.
• Experience in designing and developing low latency applications using C++ and C.
• Experience in configuring, testing, and integrating C++ applications into a Linux environment.
• Design, develop, test, and support various Market Access trading and risk management modules in C/C++.
• Working knowledge of FIX protocol.
• Experience in low latency connectivity to Futures and Options markets e.g., Eurex, CME, and ICE.
• Order management experience with Multileg products in Futures and Options products.