Senior Director of Software Engineering - Margin and Collateral / Post Trade Technology

Senior Director of Software Engineering - Margin and Collateral / Post Trade Technology

Jersey City, NJ, United States

Job Information

• Job Identification 210808245

• Job Category Software Engineering

• Business Unit Commercial & Investment Bank

• Posting Date 11/13/2026, 01:28 PM

• Locations 480 Washington Blvd, Jersey City, NJ, 07310, US

• Job Schedule Full time

• Base Pay/Salary Jersey City,NJ $232,750.00-$325,000.00

Job Description

Key responsibilities:

Engineering leadership & hands-on delivery

• Own the product/technology roadmap for both prime & clearing businesses encompassing both functional and non-functional deliveries.

• Lead platform architecture and implementation; remain close to the code/design (reviews, critical-path implementation, performance tuning).

• Drive engineering standards: CI/CD, test automation, release governance, coding standards, and secure engineering practices.

• Build and mentor a high-performing team of engineers and engineering managers.

Margin methodologies & risk engine capability

• Own implementation and ongoing enhancement of margin methodologies including:

• Cleared/CCP : SPAN, TIMS (and related scenario/sensitivity and add-on logic, where applicable).

• Prime/Broker-dealer : FINRA Portfolio Margin, FINRA Rule 4210 , Regulation T , SEC 15c3-1 and related house margin overlays.

• Translate model/rule requirements into deterministic, testable, and explainable calculation services, with full audit trails and reproducibility.

• Partner with Risk Methodology teams on model governance, parameter/version controls, validation evidence, and change approvals.

Intraday processing, scale, and resiliency

• Deliver real-time/intraday margining (e.g., trade/position events, market moves, concentration, scenario re-runs), and end-of-day cycles.

• Own non-functional outcomes: latency, throughput, scalability, availability, failover/DR readiness, and capacity planning.

• Establish SLOs/SLAs and observability (metrics, tracing, logging), and lead incident/problem management for the platform.

Data & integration

• Build integrations with upstream sources (trades/positions, reference data, market data, corporate actions) and downstream consumers (collateral, calls/notifications, reporting, finance, risk).

• Implement strong controls: reconciliations, balances, data lineage, break management, and exception workflows.

• Ensure consistent exposure/margin explainability across systems and reports.

Controls, audit, and regulatory readiness

• Ensure the platform supports audit/regulatory inquiries with clear documentation, evidence, and timely remediation.

• Implement change management, access controls, and segregation-of-duties-aligned workflows for sensitive parameters/configurations.

Required qualifications

• Senior engineering leadership experience building and running mission-critical financial risk/margin platforms in production.

• Demonstrated hands-on expertise with CCP margin methodologies (e.g., SPAN, TIMS ) and ability to implement methodology logic in production-grade systems.

• Demonstrated experience with prime/broker-dealer margin frameworks including FINRA Portfolio Margin , FINRA 4210 , Regulation T , SEC 15c3-1 (interpretation-to-implementation experience strongly preferred).

• Strong background in distributed systems and performance engineering; experience designing low-latency calculation services and/or high-throughput batch + streaming hybrids.

• Proven track record of operational excellence: on-call leadership, incident management, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills across Front Office, Risk, Operations, Finance, and Control functions.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience integrating with CCPs/clearing venues and supporting cleared derivatives margining workflows end-to-end.

• Experience implementing model/rule governance: parameter/versioning, reproducibility, approvals, validation support, and audit trails.

• Experience modernizing legacy risk platforms (monolith-to-services, batch-to-event-driven, data platform upgrades).

• Strong knowledge of margin drivers across asset classes (e.g., listed derivatives, equities, options, fixed income financing, FX, derivatives) and portfolio/position netting concepts.

Technical skills

• Architecture: Public Cloud (AWS), distributed systems (JDK 21+, Spring Boot), API/service design, event-driven patterns, batch scheduling.

• Data: strong SQL and NoSQL (Oracle, Cassandra, MongoDB); data lineage/quality controls; streaming/queueing experience (Kafka, IBM MQ).

• Engineering: CI/CD, automated testing strategies (unit/integeration/regression), performance and resiliency testing.

• Production: Observability, alerting, capacity planning, and disciplined release/rollback practices.

About Us

JPMorganChase, 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 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

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.