Executive Director - Director of Software Engineering

If you are looking for a game-changing career, working for one of the world's leading financial institutions, you’ve come to the right place.

As a Principal Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Asset & Wealth Management you, you provide expertise and engineering excellence as an integral part of an agile team to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Leverage your advanced technical capabilities and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes across various technologies to support one or more of the firm’s portfolios.

We are seeking an Executive Director to lead a Software Engineering team within Wealth Management Technology, with a mandate to embed applied AI and modern engineering practice into how the business builds software. This is a hands‑on, fast-moving leadership role: the successful candidate will build and run a high‑performing engineering organization, apply generative AI and AI‑assisted development tools as a core part of how the team ships software, and serve as the Atlanta site lead for AWM Technology—recruiting local talent, shaping engineering culture, and establishing Atlanta as a center of engineering excellence. AWM technology moves fast; we are looking for an energetic, technically fearless leader who can operate at that speed and bring others along with them.

Job responsibilities

• Serve as the site lead for AWM Technology in Atlanta, acting as the face of the organization for the local site and a key partner to firmwide site leadership
• Own local talent strategy: recruit, hire, and build a high-performing engineering team in the Atlanta market; build the pipeline and brand needed to make Atlanta a magnet for top engineering talent
• Shape and promote a strong local engineering culture — instill engineering principles, technical excellence, and a builder mindset across the Atlanta site
• Foster energy, speed, and accountability consistent with AWM's fast‑paced operating environment; create an environment where engineers want to stay, grow, and do their best work
• Represent the Atlanta site in cross-regional planning, resourcing, and culture-building efforts alongside other AWM Technology site and functional leaders
• Lead a software and data engineering teams delivering production‑grade systems for Wealth Management, holding an uncompromising bar for code quality, testability, observability, and maintainable architecture
• Drive adoption of AI‑enabled practices across the engineering lifecycle—from AI‑assisted development tools to embedding AI capabilities into products that accelerate delivery of customer and business features, as force multipliers for the team (not one‑off experiments).
• Set technical direction and review architectural decisions, balancing classical software engineering rigor with the speed and possibilities of the GenAI era
• Establish and enforce engineering standards, playbooks, and best practices (CI/CD, code review, testing, observability, where applicable) to raise the bar for delivery quality and velocity
• Partner with senior business and technology stakeholders to shape requirements, bridge business and engineering, and ensure delivery of strategic initiatives on time and on‑strategy

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 7+ years applied experience
• Hands‑on engineering leadership role; experience in financial services / Wealth Management is a plus
• Strong software engineering fundamentals — proven ability to guide architectural decisions, enforce code quality standards, and design for reliability and scale
• Hands‑on familiarity with applied AI / generative AI and AI‑assisted development tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar), with a clear point of view on how these tools change engineering workflows
• Demonstrated track record building and scaling engineering teams, including recruiting and talent development, ideally with experience establishing or growing a technology presence in a regional site
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to lead, motivate, and set culture for cross‑functional and geographically distributed teams
• Energetic, fast‑moving, and comfortable operating with ambiguity and shifting priorities in a fast‑paced environment
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and represent the site internally and externally
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams (business, product, risk, compliance) to identify technology‑driven opportunities that grow the business
• Champion responsible engineering and AI practices — model risk management, security, privacy, and secure development standards — as systems move into production
• Communicate strategy, progress, and risk/benefit trade‑offs to senior and executive audiences; synthesize technical topics into clear, actionable narratives
• Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies (especially in applied AI and AI‑assisted engineering), and best practices to keep the team and the Atlanta site at the leading edge