Cloud Platform Engineering Lead - Scale, Strategy, Impact

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London is seeking a Sr Manager of Software Engineering to lead a cloud platform squad delivering scalable solutions that align technical strategy with business goals.

You will drive end-to-end delivery, set architectural direction, oversee incident response, and mentor engineers across multiple teams while advancing enterprise AI-assisted development and governance in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering and proven leadership
• Experience coaching engineers and driving team performance
• Strong background in cloud native systems and Kubernetes
• Experience managing production systems and incident response
• Experience with AI-assisted development governance and security

Responsibilities

• Provide direction 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

Skills

People management

Team leadership

Cloud native

Kubernetes

Agile delivery

Communication

Strategic thinking

Incident response

AI governance

Security & resiliency

Tools

Terraform

Crossplane

CI/CD pipelines

SRE tooling

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London is seeking a Sr Manager of Software Engineering to lead a cloud platform squad delivering scalable solutions that align technical strategy with business goals.

You will drive end-to-end delivery, set architectural direction, oversee incident response, and mentor engineers across multiple teams while advancing enterprise AI-assisted development and governance in a regulated environment.