Senior Lead Software Engineer - Platform Engineering - Team Lead

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London, Greater London, England, GBR
Hybrid
Senior level
Financial Services
We’re one of the world’s biggest technology-driven companies
The Role
Leads a cloud platform engineering team, overseeing people development, technical strategy, scalable system delivery, operational reliability, incident response, and engineering standards. Partners with senior leaders to align platform roadmaps with business and regulatory objectives, drives cross-team collaboration, and manages technical risks. Establishes governance and adoption practices for enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and SDLC automation, emphasizing security, responsible AI, resiliency, measurable outcomes, and reuse of technology assets.
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Job Description

Join us as we build products that solve real-world problems and put customers at the center of everything we do. You'll be part of a team that values collaboration, curiosity, and commitment, helping you realize your potential in an environment that nurtures skills and growth. We're people-first, and your leadership will be key to our success. At JPMorganChase, you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of our platform and make a meaningful impact on the products and people around you.

As a Sr Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorganChase within the Cloud Platform Engineering team, you will lead a high-performing squad focused on delivering scalable solutions that bring smart ideas to our customers. You will bridge the gap between technical strategy and business goals, cultivate engineering talent, and foster a culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect. You will be responsible for the growth, health, and delivery of your engineering team, ensuring products are built to scale and aligned with our mission.

Job responsibilities

  • Provide direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of software engineers, fostering an inclusive, high-performance culture
  • Oversee end-to-end delivery of platform initiatives, translating requirements into technical roadmaps and ensuring operational stability
  • Drive engineering standards and best practices, promoting high-quality code, robust release processes, and scalable infrastructure
  • Partner with senior leadership to set the long-term technical vision for the platform, aligning with business outcomes and regulatory requirements
  • Champion a "you-build-it-you-run-it" culture, overseeing incident response and identifying opportunities to automate remediation
  • Ensure successful collaboration across teams and stakeholders, driving consensus on architectural and delivery trade-offs
  • Identify and mitigate risks to execute a book of work, contributing to communities of practice and adoption of leading-edge technologies
  • Sets and scales operating practices for enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering and SDLC/TLM automation across multiple teams to improve delivery speed, quality, and operational outcomes; establishes measurable expectations (e.g., throughput, defect reduction, reliability) and ensures consistent validation, security, resiliency, and reuse of proven patterns
  • Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to drive efficiency and support capacity unlock initiatives across teams, prioritizing reuse of existing firm technology assets
     

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience. In addition, proven experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
  • Proven people-management or team-lead experience, with a track record of coaching engineers and driving team performance
  • Strong background in software engineering, including system design, cloud native systems, and Kubernetes
  • Ability to guide technical decisions and evaluate designs across complex, distributed systems
  • Experience managing complex technical delivery in an agile environment
  • Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Ability to translate business objectives into team-level tasks and priorities
  • Experience managing production systems, including incident response and reliability engineering
  • Experience leading multi-team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and delivery tools, including defining governance/ways of working (human-in-the-loop validation, quality gates), measuring outcomes, and ensuring secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs
  • Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, resiliency/security implications, and control expectations; ability to coach managers/leads and influence leaders on safe scaling patterns
     

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Experience with cloud native infrastructure (GCP/AWS) and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Crossplane
  • Experience working in FinTech or highly regulated environments
  • Previous experience in platform engineering or developer experience focused roles

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About UsJ.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
  
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.
About the TeamOur Corporate Technology team relies on smart, driven people like you to develop applications and provide tech support for all our corporate functions across our network. Your efforts will touch lives all over the financial spectrum and across all our divisions: Global Finance, Corporate Treasury, Risk Management, Human Resources, Compliance, Legal, and within the Corporate Administrative Office. You’ll be part of a team specifically built to meet and exceed our evolving technology needs, as well as our technology controls agenda.

Skills Required

  • Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience
  • Experience leading technologists and solving complex technical problems
  • People-management or team-lead experience coaching engineers and driving team performance
  • Strong software engineering background, including system design, cloud-native systems, and Kubernetes
  • Ability to guide technical decisions and evaluate designs across complex distributed systems
  • Experience managing complex technical delivery in an agile environment
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder influence skills
  • Ability to translate business objectives into team-level tasks and priorities
  • Experience managing production systems, incident response, and reliability engineering
  • Experience leading multi-team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and delivery tools
  • Experience defining governance, human-in-the-loop validation, quality gates, outcome measurement, and secure handling of sensitive inputs and outputs
  • Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, data sensitivity, resiliency, security implications, and control expectations
  • Experience with GCP or AWS cloud-native infrastructure and Terraform or Crossplane
  • Experience working in FinTech or highly regulated environments
  • Previous platform engineering or developer experience-focused experience

JPMorganChase Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about JPMorganChase and has not been reviewed or approved by JPMorganChase.

  • Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is considered comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision, alongside wellness and mental health resources. Some locations add onsite health centers and related wellbeing support.
  • Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k)-type savings plan and related financial benefits, with options such as employee stock purchase participation. Financial planning resources are also highlighted to support long-term savings.
  • Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave of 16 weeks for birth or adoption is available for all parents. Child care and back-up child care resources further reinforce family support.

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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
289,097 Employees
Year Founded: 1799

What We Do

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products. Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com. ©2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.

Why Work With Us

Our technologists work on a diverse range of solutions that include strategic technology initiatives, big data, mobile, electronic payments, machine learning, cybersecurity, enterprise cloud development, and other state-of-the-art technologies.

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