Senior Manager of Software EngineeringJPMorganChase

Senior Manager of Software Engineering

Jersey City, NJ, United States

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Job Information

• Job Identification 210803917

• Job Category Software Engineering

• Business Unit Corporate Sector

• Posting Date 10/29/2026, 04:54 PM

• Locations 575 Washington Blvd, Jersey City, NJ, 07310, US

• Job Schedule Full time

• Job Shift Day

• Base Pay/Salary Jersey City,NJ $175,750.00-$260,000.00; Palo Alto,CA $175,750.00-$260,000.00

Job Description

Elevate your engineering leadership to unprecedented levels by joining a team of exceptionally gifted professionals and position yourself among the top echelon in site reliability. In this high-impact role, you will guide and shape the future of large-scale data platform reliability bringing your expertise in site reliability engineering, platform engineering, and AI/ML infrastructure to mentor and lead a team of 810 engineers.

As a Senior Manager of Site Reliability Engineering at JPMorganChase within the Chief Data and Analytics Office AI/ML and Data Platforms team, you are the non-functional requirement owner and champion for the applications in your remit. You will define availability targets, embed reliability principles into product design and testing, and ensure service level indicators and objectives are implemented in production to support secure, scalable, and high-performing analytics and AI/ML workloads. You act in a blameless, data-driven manner and navigate difficult situations with composure and tact.

Job responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 810 site reliability and platform engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, blameless post-mortems, and continuous improvement through tailored feedback and growth plans

• Own and champion non-functional requirements, availability targets, service level indicators, and service level objectives for services supporting large-scale data platforms and AI/ML workloads, ensuring alignment with stakeholders and production readiness standards

• Drive the design, implementation, and evolution of observability and reliability frameworks across distributed systems and data platform environments, leveraging tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Datadog, and Splunk

• Oversee the architecture and operational stability of data platform infrastructure, including Databricks, Spark-based data pipelines, and big data ecosystem tools, ensuring scalability, security, and high performance

• Lead reuse-first adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within site reliability engineering workflows, establishing team standards for traceability, auditability, and alignment to resiliency and security expectations, with human-in-the-loop validation

• Drive a culture of continual improvement by encouraging real-time feedback loops, conducting regular team debriefs, and applying objective, data-driven post-mortem strategies that enable teams to learn from both successes and failures

• Manage stakeholders and ensure teams deliver projects aligned with compliance standards, risk and security requirements, service level agreements, and business objectives

• Contribute to staffing, budget, and resource planning decisions, including hiring, developing, and recognizing engineering talent across the team

• Champion site reliability engineering culture and principles across the organization, ensuring teams document and share knowledge and innovations via internal communities of practice, guilds, and engineering forums

• Establish and govern CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code practices such as Terraform, and automation frameworks to accelerate delivery and reduce operational toil across the platform

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on site reliability engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience. In addition, 2+ years of experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise

• Demonstrated experience managing and growing site reliability or platform engineering teams, with direct responsibility for a team of 8 or more engineers

• Advanced proficiency in site reliability culture and principles, with a proven track record of implementing SLI/SLO/SLA frameworks, error budgets, incident management, and production readiness practices across large-scale distributed systems and data platforms

• Hands-on experience with observability tooling and monitoring strategies, including white and black box monitoring, alerting, and telemetry collection using tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Datadog, or Splunk

• Experience leading platform engineering efforts on large-scale data platforms and data lake ecosystems, including distributed compute frameworks such as Spark and managed platforms such as Databricks

• Proficiency in Python or similar programming languages for automation, platform development, and operational tooling

• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform

• Demonstrated experience leading teams in the safe and effective use of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within reliability engineering workflows, including validation practices, escalation paths, and awareness of data sensitivity

• Proficient with CI/CD practices and related tooling, container orchestration, and troubleshooting common networking technologies and issues

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business-aligned outcomes and influence peers and executive partners

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with AWS platforms and cloud-native infrastructure services supporting AI/ML and analytics workloads at scale

• Familiarity with big data ecosystem tools such as Spark, Glue, or MapReduce, and experience supporting data engineering teams in production environments

• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks that support platform reliability and engineering velocity

• Background in AI/ML platform engineering, including infrastructure support for model training, serving, and monitoring pipelines

• Demonstrated contributions to engineering communities through internal forums, communities of practice, or external conferences

About Us

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the worlds 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 offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

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 (https://careers.jpmorgan.com/us/en/how-we-hire/faqs) for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

About the Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that were setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.