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Engineering Director roles qualify for H-1B1 Singapore visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring at least a bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical field. No lottery, no USCIS petition, and the 5,400-visa annual cap has never been exhausted, making this one of the most direct paths for Singaporean engineers pursuing U.S. leadership positions.
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Senior Director of Software Engineering
Join one of the most consequential technology transformations in financial services. At JPMorganChase, you'll have the opportunity to lead a groundbreaking AI engineering program, shaping how the firm modernizes its most critical processing systems. This is a rare chance to build something new — with the resources, talent, and executive support to make it real.
Job Summary
As a Senior Director of Software Engineering at JPMorganChase within Wealth Management Technology, Consumer & Community Banking, you will define and deliver the AI toolchain that accelerates mainframe modernization across Credit, Money Market & Mutual Funds, Statements & Tax, and IBOR domains. You will embed directly with domain subject-matter experts and build agentic systems that ingest legacy code, job schedules, data flows, and production knowledge to produce structured specifications and accelerate migration delivery. This is a hands-on program leadership role: you own the roadmap, manage cross-team governance, and write code alongside your team. You are someone who sees GenAI not as a research exercise but as a practical engineering discipline, turning mainframe complexity into well-specified, verifiable, production-ready modern services. You thrive in ambiguity, move fast across technical and organizational boundaries, and have the credibility to influence domain leaders, architects, and senior leadership. You have deep proficiency using and extending coding agents and operate mission-critical platforms in production. You will build and manage an AI engineering squad, embed with domain subject-matter experts to capture legacy business logic, and architect multi-agent workflows for code ingestion, specification generation, and automated verification.
Job Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate the end-to-end AI modernization pipeline, including artifact ingestion, specification generation, agent-driven code translation, and automated verification
- Own the strategic sequencing of migration across domains, establishing beachheads, proving the model, and scaling against business commitments and platform readiness
- Build and lead a high-performing AI engineering team, hiring, mentoring, and retaining AI engineers while setting engineering standards and fostering a builder culture
- Partner directly with mainframe subject-matter experts to validate specifications, challenge assumptions, and ensure migrated logic preserves business intent
- Design multi-agent systems for discovery, specification, code generation, and verification, implementing prompt engineering strategies, evaluation frameworks, and guardrails tuned for financial calculation accuracy
- Collaborate with architecture teams to define the target-state platform that all migrated calculations deploy into — deterministic, immutable, and constrained for agent-first development
- Create automated evaluation suites that measure migrated calculations against legacy outputs in simulated and lower environments
- Coordinate with technology leads, architecture teams, vendor partners, and senior leadership, presenting progress, trade-offs, and investment decisions to both technical and executive audiences
- Establish LLMOps practices for the AI toolchain, including deployment, monitoring, cost management, drift detection, and continuous improvement within firm compliance, model risk, and cybersecurity standards
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience; in addition, 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate, and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
- Deep hands-on experience building production LLM-based applications, agentic architectures, RAG pipelines, and LLMOps for 24/7 systems
- Distributed systems experience in 24/7 environments, event-driven and batch architectures, API design, and modern cloud platforms (AWS/EKS/ECS/Kafka)
- Demonstrated ability to build and scale engineering teams, including hiring, developing, and retaining senior technical talent
- Expert proficiency with AI-assisted development tools as part of daily engineering workflow
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate between highly technical AI concepts and business stakeholder needs
- Experience designing and implementing multi-agent orchestration systems for complex, multi-step workflows
- Proven track record of delivering large-scale technology programs with measurable business outcomes
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills
- Experience in financial services, particularly wealth management, brokerage, or capital markets processing
- Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Familiarity with calculation engines, workflow orchestration, and event sourcing patterns
- Experience with JVM, Rust, PostgreSQL, and Kafka in production environments
- Background in program management for large-scale technology transformations
- Experience building evaluation and verification frameworks for code migration or translation systems
About us
Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America's households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs. 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 for more information about requesting an accommodation. Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans
About The Team
Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We're proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions – all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.
Job Description
Senior Director of Software Engineering
Join one of the most consequential technology transformations in financial services. At JPMorganChase, you'll have the opportunity to lead a groundbreaking AI engineering program, shaping how the firm modernizes its most critical processing systems. This is a rare chance to build something new — with the resources, talent, and executive support to make it real.
Job Summary
As a Senior Director of Software Engineering at JPMorganChase within Wealth Management Technology, Consumer & Community Banking, you will define and deliver the AI toolchain that accelerates mainframe modernization across Credit, Money Market & Mutual Funds, Statements & Tax, and IBOR domains. You will embed directly with domain subject-matter experts and build agentic systems that ingest legacy code, job schedules, data flows, and production knowledge to produce structured specifications and accelerate migration delivery. This is a hands-on program leadership role: you own the roadmap, manage cross-team governance, and write code alongside your team. You are someone who sees GenAI not as a research exercise but as a practical engineering discipline, turning mainframe complexity into well-specified, verifiable, production-ready modern services. You thrive in ambiguity, move fast across technical and organizational boundaries, and have the credibility to influence domain leaders, architects, and senior leadership. You have deep proficiency using and extending coding agents and operate mission-critical platforms in production. You will build and manage an AI engineering squad, embed with domain subject-matter experts to capture legacy business logic, and architect multi-agent workflows for code ingestion, specification generation, and automated verification.
Job Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate the end-to-end AI modernization pipeline, including artifact ingestion, specification generation, agent-driven code translation, and automated verification
- Own the strategic sequencing of migration across domains, establishing beachheads, proving the model, and scaling against business commitments and platform readiness
- Build and lead a high-performing AI engineering team, hiring, mentoring, and retaining AI engineers while setting engineering standards and fostering a builder culture
- Partner directly with mainframe subject-matter experts to validate specifications, challenge assumptions, and ensure migrated logic preserves business intent
- Design multi-agent systems for discovery, specification, code generation, and verification, implementing prompt engineering strategies, evaluation frameworks, and guardrails tuned for financial calculation accuracy
- Collaborate with architecture teams to define the target-state platform that all migrated calculations deploy into — deterministic, immutable, and constrained for agent-first development
- Create automated evaluation suites that measure migrated calculations against legacy outputs in simulated and lower environments
- Coordinate with technology leads, architecture teams, vendor partners, and senior leadership, presenting progress, trade-offs, and investment decisions to both technical and executive audiences
- Establish LLMOps practices for the AI toolchain, including deployment, monitoring, cost management, drift detection, and continuous improvement within firm compliance, model risk, and cybersecurity standards
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience; in addition, 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate, and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
- Deep hands-on experience building production LLM-based applications, agentic architectures, RAG pipelines, and LLMOps for 24/7 systems
- Distributed systems experience in 24/7 environments, event-driven and batch architectures, API design, and modern cloud platforms (AWS/EKS/ECS/Kafka)
- Demonstrated ability to build and scale engineering teams, including hiring, developing, and retaining senior technical talent
- Expert proficiency with AI-assisted development tools as part of daily engineering workflow
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate between highly technical AI concepts and business stakeholder needs
- Experience designing and implementing multi-agent orchestration systems for complex, multi-step workflows
- Proven track record of delivering large-scale technology programs with measurable business outcomes
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills
- Experience in financial services, particularly wealth management, brokerage, or capital markets processing
- Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Familiarity with calculation engines, workflow orchestration, and event sourcing patterns
- Experience with JVM, Rust, PostgreSQL, and Kafka in production environments
- Background in program management for large-scale technology transformations
- Experience building evaluation and verification frameworks for code migration or translation systems
About us
Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America's households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs. 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 for more information about requesting an accommodation. Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans
About The Team
Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We're proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions – all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.
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Align your credentials to U.S. specialty occupation standards
Pull your O*NET profile for Engineering Director and confirm your degree field maps directly to the role's listed knowledge requirements. Singaporean engineering degrees are generally accepted, but a mismatch between your specialty and the posted responsibilities is the most common H-1B1 visa documentation problem.
Target employers with active H-1B LCA filings
Use Migrate Mate to filter Engineering Director roles by employers who have filed Labor Condition Applications for engineering leadership positions. Employers already familiar with prevailing-wage compliance move faster through the H-1B1 visa process than those filing for the first time.
Verify the LCA wage level before accepting any offer
Run the posted salary against the OFLC Wage Search for your target metro area and SOC code before negotiating. Engineering Director roles typically fall at Wage Level III or IV, and an underfiled LCA will delay your consulate appointment, not just your start date.
Request consulate-route processing, not change of status
If you're already in the U.S. on another nonimmigrant status, the H-1B1 visa is processed at a Singapore or third-country consulate, not through a USCIS change-of-status petition. Confirm your employer's HR team understands this distinction before they engage outside immigration counsel.
Prepare your nonimmigrant intent documentation early
Unlike H-1B visa, the H-1B1 visa carries no dual-intent protection, so consular officers will assess your ties to Singapore. Gather evidence of family, professional, and financial ties before your appointment, not after the employer files the LCA.
Clarify E-Verify enrollment before your start date
Engineering Director roles at federal contractors require E-Verify enrollment from day one. Confirm whether your prospective employer is already enrolled, since non-enrolled companies serving government clients face additional compliance steps that can push back your actual start date by weeks.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Engineering Director role qualify as a specialty occupation for the H-1B1 Singapore visa?
Yes. Engineering Director positions qualify because they require at least a bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a closely related technical field. USCIS and consular officers evaluate whether the specific job duties demand that theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge, which engineering leadership roles consistently satisfy.
How does the H-1B1 Singapore visa differ from H-1B for Engineering Director candidates?
The H-1B1 visa has no lottery and no USCIS petition requirement, meaning your employer files a Labor Condition Application with DOL and you apply directly at the consulate. The trade-off is that H-1B1 carries no dual-intent protection, so you can't simultaneously pursue a green card while on this status, unlike H-1B holders.
How do I find Engineering Director roles where the employer already understands H-1B1 Singapore sponsorship?
Migrate Mate surfaces Engineering Director positions filtered by employers with verified H-1B1 visa and H-1B LCA filing history, so you're not starting a sponsorship conversation from scratch. Employers who've filed Labor Condition Applications before understand prevailing-wage obligations and move through the process faster than first-time sponsors.
What wage level should an Engineering Director LCA be filed at?
Engineering Director roles typically require a DOL Wage Level III or Level IV filing, reflecting the supervisory scope and specialized expertise the position demands. You can verify the correct prevailing wage for your target city and SOC code using the OFLC Wage Search before or during salary negotiations to avoid an underfiled LCA.
Can I renew my H-1B1 Singapore visa without leaving the United States?
No. The H-1B1 visa doesn't allow status extensions through USCIS the way H-1B does. Each renewal requires a new consulate appointment, typically in Singapore, though third-country processing is sometimes available. Plan your renewal timeline around your I-94 expiration date, since there's no automatic grace period built into the H-1B1 for renewals.