Director of Software Engineering, HR Tech

Salary: $61,000 - 101,000 per year Requirements:

• Formal software engineering training or certification, along with 10+ years of practical experience
• 5+ years leading technologists to resolve complex technical challenges within a domain
• Demonstrated success leading mission-critical platforms with high availability, strong operational discipline, and measurable results
• Experience delivering modern web and API platforms, including distributed systems, service-oriented architectures or microservices, and integration-heavy environments
• Strong cloud-native engineering expertise, such as AWS or an equivalent platform, with knowledge of reliability, security, cost management, and SDLC automation
• Ability to influence and align senior business, product, and technology leaders while communicating strategy, risks, and delivery progress clearly
• Practical understanding of engineering controls and security, including identity and access management, data privacy, secure SDLC, vulnerability management, and audit/compliance expectations
• Strong people leadership skills, including hiring, mentoring, talent growth, and building inclusive, high-performing teams
• Experience introducing agentic AI-enabled engineering practices across teams, including human-in-the-loop checks, quality gates, outcome measurement, and secure handling of sensitive inputs and outputs
• Strong grasp of responsible AI use and governance in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, security, resiliency, and reuse patterns
• Preferred: experience with HR technology and Talent Acquisition workflows, including ATS/CRM platforms, candidate pipelines, scheduling, offers, background checks, and onboarding
• Preferred: experience integrating HR and talent applications with enterprise HR suites and broader vendor ecosystems
• Preferred: familiarity with modern full-stack engineering, including React, TypeScript, and enterprise design systems
• Preferred: backend and API expertise with Java, Spring Boot, GraphQL, REST API design, versioning, and governance
• Preferred: solid security and data fundamentals, including OAuth2/OIDC, service-to-service security, and data persistence technologies such as PostgreSQL/Aurora and graph stores like Neptune where relevant
• Preferred: experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka/MSK, including schema evolution, idempotency, and operational controls such as DLQs
• Preferred: strong platform engineering and delivery practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, IaC, containers, service blueprints, API/event governance, SLO/SLI frameworks, and responsible AI-assisted engineering

• Define the engineering vision and execution roadmap for the Talent Acquisition platform, balancing user experience, speed to market, reliability, and control requirements
• Lead multiple cross-functional engineering teams, including org design, hiring, coaching, performance management, and succession planning
• Shape platform architecture and modernization using cloud-native patterns, domain-driven boundaries, API and event strategies, and reusable capabilities
• Own end-to-end delivery and operations, including production readiness, incident response, reliability and SLOs, observability, cost management, and continuous improvement
• Oversee integrations with HR workforce and compensation systems, workflow tools, identity and access systems, analytics, and external talent acquisition vendors
• Establish and enforce engineering governance, including secure coding standards, architecture reviews, SDLC controls, change management, audit readiness, and engineering KPIs
• Partner with Product, UX, and HR stakeholders to translate strategy into outcomes and manage trade-offs effectively
• Manage third-party vendor and platform relationships, including due diligence, technical assessment, security posture, delivery oversight, and commercial and operational accountability
• Promote an engineering culture grounded in inclusion, accountability, high standards, and continuous learning
• Guide the use of AI-enabled engineering and SDLC automation to improve speed, quality, and operational outcomes while maintaining validation, security, resiliency, traceability, and reuse guardrails
• Apply knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle tools, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to increase automation value and unlock capacity at scale

• Agentic AI
• AI
• API
• AWS
• Backend
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• CRM
• GraphQL
• Support
• Java
• Kafka
• Marketing
• PostgreSQL
• REST
• React
• Security
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• TypeScript
• Web
• microservices
• UX UI Design
• Incident Management
• Oracle
• Terraform

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We are JPMorganChase, a long-established financial institution providing innovative solutions to consumers, small businesses, and major corporate, institutional, and government clients through the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. With more than 200 years of history, we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. We offer a competitive total rewards package with base salary determined by role, experience, skill set, and location, and eligible roles may also receive commission-based pay and discretionary incentive compensation. Our benefits and programs may include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, retirement savings, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching, and more. We value diversity and inclusion, are an equal opportunity employer, and provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees. Our Corporate Functions team supports areas such as finance, risk, human resources, and marketing, helping set our businesses, clients, customers, and employees up for success.

last updated 36 week of 2026