Director of Software Engineering- Virtual Private Cloud

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 VPC Network organization, you lead a critical technical area and drive firmwide impact across teams, technologies, and projects. You bring deep engineering expertise to lead the design and implementation of JPMC-VPC -a software-defined networking platform that will replace legacy infrastructure and position the firm for decades of innovation-modernizing JPMorganChase's network platform and advancing next-generation SDN to support resilience, scale, and continued innovation.

You partner across product and engineering to deliver trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way, while challenging the status quo and staying at the forefront of industry trends and best practices.

- Leads the strategy and development of multiple products, applications, and technologies across a portfolio; sets technical direction and drives measurable outcomes. - Designs and architects core components of JPMC-VPC, including control plane (OVN), data plane (OVS/DPU), software gateways, load balancers, and IPAM systems. - Leads technology and process implementations to achieve functional technology objectives across teams and departments. - Creates novel solutions and drives delivery of new production capabilities across teams and functions; ensures solutions are durable and reusable. - Provides governance accountability for coding decisions, control obligations, and success measures such as cost of ownership, maintainability, reliability, and portfolio operations. - Makes decisions that influence teams' resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures. - Ensures engineering excellence by championing modern practices including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, testing, and observability , and by driving operational stability. - Translates highly complex technical issues, trends, and approaches to senior leadership to enable well-informed decisions about technology investments and advancements. - Collaborates with vendor partners (e.g., Red Hat, NVIDIA) on roadmap and integration; represents JPMorganChase in relevant open-source communities and industry forums when appropriate. - Builds and develops talent through hiring, coaching, recognition, and creating high-performing, inclusive teams. - Champions the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect .

- 12+ years of experience in systems engineering, networking, distributed systems, or adjacent infrastructure platforms, with increasing scope of ownership and impact. - Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams of technologists delivering complex platforms/products at scale. - Experience influencing across functions and managing senior stakeholder relationships; proven ability to deliver outcomes across multiple teams. - Practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for mission-critical infrastructure. - Strong engineering background with expertise in one or more: Go, Python, C/C++, Rust (ability to guide design/code quality and dive deep when needed). - Hands-on experience with software-defined networking (SDN) technologies such as OVN, OVS , or equivalent. - Expert-level knowledge of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, routing, switching, load balancing . - Experience with modern development practices: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability . - Extensive practical cloud-native experience . - Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent ; building an inclusive engineering culture. - Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics , or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).

- Experience with DPU/SmartNIC technologies (e.g., NVIDIA BlueField, AMD Pensando, Intel IPU). - Knowledge of eBPF, XDP, DPDK , or other high-performance networking frameworks. - Experience with CNI implementations (Cilium, Calico, Flannel) and Kubernetes networking. - Understanding of advanced routing/encapsulation: BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, EVPN , or similar. - Experience working at code level on large-scale infrastructure platforms (design reviews, critical-path coding, and/or hands-on prototyping).