United Kingdom
Engineering Director with 15+ years' experience leading regulated software delivery, platform modernisation and engineering transformation across financial services, open banking, education technology and digital media. I'm currently an Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase, where I lead global engineering for Asset Management investment platforms supporting $438B+ AUM across North America, EMEA and APAC. My remit spans full-stack delivery, platform engineering, infrastructure, UI, microservices, shared libraries, analytics, cached data access, quality engineering, security remediation and developer experience. I lead with a people-first approach: building strong engineering cultures, coaching managers, developing talent, supporting difficult leadership conversations and partnering closely with HR and senior leadership to create clearer, healthier and more effective teams. A major focus of my current work is helping engineering teams adopt AI-assisted and agentic developer workflows safely and deliberately. I am interested in how tools such as Claude Code, Copilot and Codex can improve throughput, quality and deployment confidence when paired with good engineering discipline, testing, security controls and human judgement. I also write The Agentic Playbook, a practical series exploring AI-assisted development, engineering leadership in the AI era, quality and safety, talent development, cognitive health and real-world developer workflows: marcinwojtala.vercel.app/agentic-playbook Core leadership themes: - Engineering leadership in regulated financial services - Asset Management investment platforms and portfolio management technology - Full-stack delivery, platform modernisation and service ownership - DevSecOps, vulnerability remediation and quality engineering - AI-assisted engineering, agentic workflows and developer productivity - Talent development, coaching, management maturity and engineering culture - Agile transformation, delivery governance and operating model improvement
I lead global engineering for Asset Management investment platforms supporting $438B+ AUM across North America, EMEA and APAC. My remit covers full-stack software delivery, platform engineering, infrastructure, UI, microservices, common libraries, analytics, cached data access, DevSecOps, quality engineering and developer experience. Key responsibilities and impact: - Lead a global engineering organisation across North America, EMEA, India and APAC. - Provide management-of-managers leadership, coaching regional leads, supporting career development, difficult conversations, performance management and HR partnership. - Own engineering direction, delivery governance and operating-model maturity for Asset Management investment platforms. - Drive full-stack delivery across platform, infrastructure, UI, microservices, common libraries and shared engineering capabilities. - Lead engineering improvement across security remediation, vulnerability fixes, service upgrades, Java and platform modernisation, UI quality, tooling and delivery speed. - Partner with senior leadership, product owners, architects, agile coaches and engineering teams to shape roadmaps, delivery priorities and investment decisions. Influence budget, vendor preselection, solution integration, hiring, interviewing and resourcing decisions. - Establish DevSecOps and quality practices across CI/CD, Snyk, Veracode, performance testing, release safeguards and engineering controls. Improve resilience through contract testing, performance testing, rollback patterns, controlled release management and service ownership. - Sponsor practical AI-assisted engineering adoption through workshops, workflow design, adoption tracking and quality guardrails. - Produce senior-leadership KPI packs connecting operational health, delivery risk, resilience, regulatory context and programme progress.
Built and led the UI engineering function for financial transaction platforms supporting 2B+ daily distributed transactions. Created a technical vision and roadmap using a contextual maturity matrix to evaluate team capability, tooling, delivery quality and investment priorities. Key responsibilities and impact: - Grew the engineering team by 200% through hiring, onboarding, mentoring and career development. - Designed and delivered a React micro-frontend architecture using Module Federation to enable independent team deployment. - Established career tracks, onboarding material, training programmes, working groups and structured development expectations. - Coached managers, staff engineers and developers across full-stack capability, cloud-first delivery, CI/CD, containerisation and engineering maturity. - Acted as a senior M&A advisor during the TreasuryXpress acquisition and helped preserve delivery continuity through organisational change. - Supported Open Banking API integration and regulatory compliance requirements across financial data flows. Introduced non-functional requirements, mobile-first delivery practices and stronger quality controls across global teams.
Led architecture and delivery improvement for a distributed Higher Education platform team, acting as technical authority across full feature lifecycle delivery. Key responsibilities and impact: - Designed AWS cloud architecture and moved delivery from manual releases to Docker-based infrastructure with automated CI/CD. - Established coding standards, architecture governance, quality controls, secure application development and business continuity practices. - Improved ways of working across delivery, cyber security, automation, knowledge sharing, quality assurance and DevOps. - Led full-stack delivery across Node.js, React, Vue, GraphQL, MongoDB, Redis and cloud infrastructure. Technologies and practices: AWS, Azure, Docker, Node.js, React, Vue, GraphQL, MongoDB, Redis, CI/CD, DevOps
Technology: Full-stack development, testing and training (Node.js, React, Vue, Mongo, Redis, TestCafe, Mocha, Jest and GraphQL) DevOps: AWS, Azure, Docker, CD / CI, Github, Gitlabs and Bitbucket Operations: Secured App development, engineering standards, Ways of Working, Coaching, digital innovation, system architecture, technical consultancy, knowledge sharing, upskilling, resource and delivery management.
Led engineering teams and product technology initiatives across AdTech platforms, vendor integrations and real-time delivery systems. Key responsibilities and impact: - Led distributed engineering teams across in-house, remote and offshore locations for 7 years. - Led 16+ developers building creative systems integrated with real-time bidding infrastructure. - Set KPIs, OKRs, technical documentation standards, client-facing documentation and career progression paths. - Partnered with product, data, APIs, optimisation, strategy, account and communications teams to launch display, mobile, programmatic and video products. - Evaluated and integrated third-party vendor technologies across AR, VR, computer vision, voice recognition, 3D and machine learning. - Built internal tools, libraries, tutorials and reusable assets to improve delivery efficiency and product quality.
Product development and leadership utilising the latest JavaScript technologies and features (React.js, Flux and Redux as state managers, Server-side rendering & nodejs, ES2015 + babel for legacy browsers compatibility). A proactive hands-on leader in the product and marketing development, leading the development team(s) by example. Implementing knowledge sharing practises, agile principles, taking responsibility for technical documentation and client facing documentation. Setting clear data-driven KPIs, OKRs, and Goals for projects and the team, while also defining career progression for individual team members and assisting with new talent hires. Architecting product features, enhancements, frameworks, API services and functionalities with the product team to develop forward-thinking solutions to solve today’s advertising challenges. Utilising business and technical acumen to grow accounts' revenue. Lead technical review, tech evaluation, and assist with internal certification for 3rd party vendor technologies as well as frameworks (AR, VR, Computer vision, voice recognition, 3D).