JPMorganChase's Seattle tech leader says AI is changing what the bank looks for in engineers
Ture Armas, a UBC graduate, says soft skills are becoming hard skills as spec-driven development spreads.
Ture Armas, the new leader of JPMorganChase's Seattle Tech Center, told GeekWire in an interview published Thursday that engineers will need to work more closely with the business as AI changes how software is built.
"Things that we in the past referred to as soft skills, they are now the hard skills," Armas said, adding that this is changing how the bank hires. He said the traditional business-analyst handoff is giving way to spec-driven development, in which engineers write the specifications that AI coding tools work from.
Most developers at the Seattle centre use GitHub Copilot, while Anthropic's Claude Code is used on smaller teams, he said. The centre has more than 400 people and about 50 open positions, mostly in AI, cloud and cybersecurity, and this summer moved into expanded space in the downtown tower now called the JPMorganChase Center.
Armas grew up in British Columbia and studied computer science at the University of British Columbia before working in New York for about 18 years and moving to Seattle in 2016.
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