Director of Software Engineering - Executive Director

JPMorganChase

JPMorganChase

Software Engineering

Saudi Arabia

Posted on May 2, 2026

If you are a software engineering leader ready to take the reins and drive impact, we’ve got an opportunity just for you.

As a Director of Software Engineering at JPMorganChase within the Payments Technology function, you will lead multiple technical teams, provide oversight to the activities of multiple departments, and collaborate across technical domains. We will rely on your expertise to promote the adoption and implementation of technical methods within various teams and aid us in remaining at the forefront of industry trends, best practices, and technological advances. This role provides an opportunity to influence and shape the technological landscape of our firm and contribute to our continuous growth and innovation in the Middle East.

Job responsibilities

  • Solution and implement individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
  • Work closely with technology teams and internal end users to deliver solutions that drive a variety of trade businesses.
  • Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams
  • Optimize application for maximum performance, scalability and high availability.
  • Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
  • Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
  • Deliver technical solutions that can be leveraged across multiple businesses and domains
  • Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and expert applied experience.
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication, problem solving, analytical, organizational skills and attention to detail and excellent follow-through.
  • Experience of using a Test Driven Development and Domain Driven Development approach and associated testing frameworks.
  • Excellent in Data Structures, Algorithms and Design Patterns.
  • Proven strong hands-on experience in Java/J2EE development. Design, Develop and maintain java applications.
  • Strong knowledge and experience with Hibernate ORM framework. Knowledge of database system and SQL. Experience in UNIX, Shell scripting.
  • Detailed understanding of distributed and parallel processing environment.
  • Working experience in one of the container orchestration frameworks like Docker Swarm or Open-shift/Kubernetes.
  • Working experience on building stateless, SAAS/SOA and scalable applications/platforms.
  • Shall have a good understanding on continuous monitoring frameworks such as ELK, Grafana, and Prometheus on distributed infra. Extensive experience with the spring framework (Spring boot, MVC, spring Transactions)
  • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as git/git-flow.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Software delivery experience in Payments
  • Working experience with one of functional programming: Scala, go, python
  • Hands on knowledge on GWT, Mule ESB is a plus.
  • Experience in persistence store; MongoDB, Graph DB, Big table
  • Experience in several SDLC frameworks including but not limited to: Maven/Gradle, PIP, anaconda, Jenkins, Jira.
  • Experience in the field of Machine learning, NLP, OCR.
  • Open source contribution.

J.P. 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. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. 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.
J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.
Drive innovation and solution delivery while leading a technical area and serving as a primary decision maker for your teams
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