Sr Director Infra Engineering- Data Center Networking

Partner with a company that's devoted to shaping the future of infrastructure in financial services. Let's collaborate to explore uncharted territories and achieve extraordinary feats together.

  As a Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering at JPMorganChase within the Data Center Networking Team within Infrastructure Platforms, you have direct management of multiple areas of the firm's technology infrastructure. Your deep knowledge and expertise are leveraged to set the overall direction and short-term operational goals. Work cross-functionally to drive the adoption and implementation of technical methods within various teams and aid the firm in remaining at the forefront of industry trends, best practices, and technological advances.

Job responsibilities

Partner with a company that's devoted to shaping the future of infrastructure in financial services. Let's collaborate to explore uncharted territories and achieve extraordinary feats together.

As a Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering at JPMorganChase within the Data Center Networking Team within Infrastructure Platforms, you have direct management of multiple areas of the firm's technology infrastructure. Your deep knowledge and expertise are leveraged to set the overall direction and short-term operational goals. Work cross-functionally to drive the adoption and implementation of technical methods within various teams and aid the firm in remaining at the forefront of industry trends, best practices, and technological advances.

This is a leadership role responsible for strategy, execution, and people management—leading a high-performing team of engineers and architects, and collaborating across technology, security, and operations functions.

Job responsibilities

• Manages multiple technical areas and collaborates on technology projects across different technical domains
• Promotes and champions the development of technological methods, techniques, and various analytical approaches across the infrastructure engineering domain
• Ensures technical compliance, risk, and security, is adopted and that service level agreements and solution scalability needs are met
• Manages multiple stakeholders and complex projects consisting of large teams
• Applies cross-functional technical expertise, leadership, and comprehensive business knowledge to a broad range of infrastructure engineering areas by communicating, managing, and implementing strategic and operational plans
• Develops and executes the function's objectives with accountability for outcomes
• Be responsible for staffing, budget and relevant profit and loss
• Mentors and coaches junior engineers and technologists 
• Champions the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, respect for team members and prioritizes diverse representation 
• Drive adoption of infrastructure automation, SDN, and network-as-code practices to improve agility and reduce manual risk.
• Oversee lifecycle management, including hardware/software upgrades, end-of-life tracking, and technology refresh programs.

 Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 10+ years of experience in data center network engineering and operations, with at least 5 years in a leadership or managerial role.
• Deep technical expertise in data center networking technologies: Cisco, Arista, Juniper, Nexus, ACI, BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, etc.
• Strong experience with automation frameworks (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Python, CI/CD pipelines) for network infrastructure.
• Solid understanding of risk management, compliance standards (e.g., SOX, FFIEC, MAS), and audit processes.
• Demonstrated success in leading stability and resiliency programs including change management, incident response, and RCA.
• Experience managing and developing large cross-functional teams within the infrastructure engineering discipline
• Demonstrated prior experience influencing across highly matrixed, complex organizations and delivering value at scale
• Experience leading complex projects supporting infrastructure engineering design, scaling, resilience, and system performance assessments
• Extensive experience hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
• Experience managing and developing budgets

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Deliver and maintain highly stable and resilient network environments supporting mission-critical financial applications.
• Partner with cybersecurity, application, and cloud teams to ensure robust, secure, and scalable infrastructure designs.
• Develop and execute network roadmaps and engineering plans aligned with enterprise strategy.
• Lead and mentor a global team of network engineers and technical leads; develop talent and build succession plans.
• Manage vendor relationships, contracts, and performance tied to data center network services.

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