Chase · 2 months ago
Director of Software Engineering- Electronic Trading Services
575 Washington Blvd, Jersey City, NJ, 07310, US
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$204K/yr - $285K/yr
10+ years expChase is a leading financial services firm, and they are seeking a Director of Software Engineering within the Electronic Trading Services Platforms. The role involves leading technical initiatives, driving innovation, and ensuring alignment between technology strategy and business goals while mentoring and guiding technical teams.
BankingFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Leads technology and process implementations to achieve functional technology objectives
Work directly with Lines of Business to understand and address their needs and challenges within the compute space within a low-latency Electronic Trading environment
Direct the strategies for server hardware platform, server/OS tuning and automation, and infrastructure application lifecycle
Design Authority for the compute infrastructure application stack, including build and configuration management, and log/metric aggregation
Interface with hardware and software vendors on product roadmaps and to establish the next generation of Electronic Trading Platform infrastructure
Makes decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
Carries governance accountability for coding decisions, control obligations, and measures of success such as cost of ownership, maintainability, and portfolio operations
Delivers technical solutions that can be leveraged across multiple businesses and domains
Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams
Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Qualification
Required
Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience
Understanding of IPv4 networking, including OSI model, unicast/broadcast/multicast, routing, and network segregation mechanisms
Extensive experience with Configuration Management, preferably Chef or Ansible
Experience developing or leading cross-functional teams of technologists
Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
Experience leading a product as a Product Owner or Product Manager
Practical cloud native experience
Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
Preferred
Mentor SRE and partner teams on automation best practices, technical thought process, and modern infrastructure management
Linux administration, performance tuning, and benchmarking for low-latency Electronic Trading, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Extensive experience with Configuration Management, preferably Chef or Ansible
Performing various research/development/risk-analysis as it pertains to the aforementioned
Understanding of standard cryptography (certs, key pairs, communication, etc.)
Experience with database management systems, preferably PostgreSQL
Company
Chase
Chase provides broad range of financial services. It is a sub-organization of JP Morgan Chase.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Mike McDonnell
Managing Director, Head of Chase Travel Platform Product
Nicole Sanchez
Managing Director, Consumer Bank, GM and Product Executive, Growth Financial Products
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