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# Senior Director of Software Engineering - Enterprise Search

- **Company:** JPMorgan Chase & Co.
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Computer Engineering, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Enterprise Search, Enterprise Software Applications, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Generative AI, Information Technology
- **Published:** November 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_56b6501b2c585e49d99d3a6ebb2a5e1b

## About the Role

* Proven experience as Engineering Lead, hands-on Software Engineering Manager, or similar role
 * Proficient with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
 * Hands on experience leading a product as a Product Owner or Product Manager
 * Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
 * Innovative and creative leader with previous experience in developing large-scale platforms and search solutions
 * Experienced organizational leader, who is passionate about building effective and empowered teams
 * Strong business acumen and consumer-grade mindset
 * Extensive knowledge of the engineering best practices, technical design and product development lifecycle
 * Proficient with SEO and proven track record
 * Practical experience driving change within organizations and managing stakeholders across multiple functions.
 * Demonstrated proficiency with AWS and Search implementations

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

 * Experienced in and strong knowledge of using AI/ML and more particularly LLMs eager to apply this rapidly changing technology
 * Experience with content management systems
 * Working knowledge of Java, Python, and React is preferred

## Description

As a Senior Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Sector, within Enterprise Technologies, you will be accountable for leading the technical design and strategy, roadmap and execution of a firmwide enterprise search. You will lead the specification and definition of search; driving definition and specification of crawl, rank, indexation and priority, and in partnership with product, design, and data teams, you will improve the discoverability of content across an omni-channel portfolio of web, app and chats. Enterprise search is a cornerstone of content discoverability and it's a rapidly evolving landscape, particularly with the introduction of LLMs and Gen AI. You will have immediate opportunity to harmonize the enterprise search experience and improve content rank relevancy., * Carries governance accountability for coding decisions, control obligations, and measures of success such as cost of ownership, maintainability, and portfolio operations

 * Partner with Product and Experience Leads to reimagine search experience and develop strategy for an enterprise-wide search product, delivered as a flexible component to domain products, that drives a consistent and cohesive search experience, and delivers relevant and personalized results of content (knowledge, communications and marketing) and actionable widgets.
 * Provide visionary leadership to the engineering team(s), fostering collaboration and high performance.
 * Deliver on organizational vision and objectives with high quality and time to market.
 * Partner with stakeholders to assess search landscape for NextGen based on evolving industry trends, and customer and business needs.
 * Provide coaching and mentoring for engineers of all levels, with focus on organizational maturity and culture of excellence.
 * Leads technology and process implementations to achieve functional technology objectives and provide technical leadership with hands-on engineering.
 * Partner with Content product and engineering to ensure content is developed per standards and stored appropriately (content corpus) to be effectively findable for answer generation model and traditional search results.
 * Partner with Product Lead to develop insights to drive product strategy decisions.
 * Partner with cross-functional products to adopt search components across all domains in a cohesive, quality and intuitive experience.
 * Champions the firm's culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect