Organization Description

* Our Corporate Technology team relies on smart, driven people like you to develop applications and provide tech support for all our corporate functions across our network. Your efforts will touch lives all over the financial spectrum and across all our divisions: Global Finance, Corporate Treasury, Risk Management, Human Resources, Compliance, Legal, and within the Corporate Administrative Office. You'll be part of a team specifically built to meet and exceed our evolving technology needs, as well as our technology controls agenda.

Employer Description

* JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

* 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. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.

Job Description
* This Executive Director role will lead a global team of technologists delivering strategic program initiatives as part of a multi-year transformation plan for Global Real Estate. This role will be responsible for designing and delivering next-generation application portfolio, infrastructure and data and reporting management.
* Key Objectives:
+ Establish GRE as a global industry leader by using technology to drive innovation, increase flexibility, and excel in a competitive environment
+ Leverage technology to drive efficiencies, maximize employee productivity and create a positive working environment for collaboration
+ Improve data consistency and quality to enable better decision making, and increase transparency and accountability
+ Enabling cost reduction to Firm (all lines of business) by optimizing existing space management / utilization, ongoing property management functions and enhanced real estate portfolio management
+ Enhancing direct employee experience in workspace selection and usage

Responsibilities of the role include:
* Lead a global team by generating a vision, establishing direction, motivating members, creating an atmosphere of trust, leveraging diverse views
* Evolve product vision and technology roadmaps by working closely with business, transformation leaders & technology leaders
* Technical responsibility for application architecture and design. Evolve product architecture and how the platform interacts
* Provide strong technical leadership for engineering and product teams
* Active participation in an Agile development process, including working closely with the business and product teams
* Timely project communications - monthly updates, project updates, RCA updates, agile experiments, team metrics etc
* Project management experience including managing small teams, influencing decision-making outside of immediate span of control, and accomplishing key objectives and results
* Manage a team of Software Engineers equipped to deliver end-to-end features
* Managing cross-team and vendor dependencies throughout the software lifecycle
* Participate in Architecture & Engineering forums, perform design reviews
* Participate in dev modernization and adoption of emerging/modern technologies across the application suite
* Continuous improvement of our DevOps, tooling and processes to enable us to deliver more value
* Align with the security standards and guidelines to ensure systems are secure and protected against threats
* Driving normalization/standardization of technology disciplines, collaborating with firm wide CI/CD engineering service owners and Practice Enablement.

Qualifications:
* This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities, including:
* BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
* Experienced senior IT professional with a proven Financial Services and/or Real Estate Technology track record, with more than 15 years' experience in combinations of successful application development and technology operations management
* Experience with Big Data and emerging technologies; Portfolio management, Conflict Resolution; Negotiation; Budget / Financial / Resource Management
* Demonstrated ability and success in interacting and influencing senior leadership on areas and strategies concerning the selection and deployment of technologies
* Mastery of application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines
* Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices
* Experience with Java eco-system and associated tooling (Core & EE, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud), UI/UX (React JS, Angular or equivalent), Web Technologies (JavaScript, HTML 5, CSS, JSON, REST, SOAP)
* SCM / DevOps / CI/CD tools & process (GIT/Bitbucket, Maven, Ant, Jenkins, Sonar), Testing tools & frameworks (Jasmin/Karma, JUnit, Selenium, Cucumber, Mockito), Agile Methodology and Tools (JIRA)
* Experience with Micro Services & Event Architecture
* Experience with Integration patterns and messaging technologies (JMS, Mule, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
* Experience with Cloud Platforms, Container/Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry)
* Strong Communication Skills demonstrating the ability to present and explain ideas and concepts.
* Experience building and managing global Software Engineering teams.
* Experience in engineering solutions for metrics gathering/publishing and event collection/correlation across distributed architectures, automation, monitoring, intelligent alerting, random fault injection (Chaos Engineering), and self-healing
* Experience providing leadership for large data volume applications.
* Expertise in working in in large, collaborative teams to achieve organizational goals
* Keen understanding of financial control and budget management
* Organizes and prioritizes critical issues and required information to facilitate efficient decision making; provides oversight and guidance to team projects of highest priority and importance
* Able to distill widely variant feedback into root cause issues and provide actionable feedback to other senior stakeholders. Excellent technical and business presentation, writing, and verbal communication skills
* Track record of driving strategy, organizational and operating model change
* Strong facilitation, process and influencing skills
* Proven entrepreneurial style

JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

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. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans