Engineering Manager, Platform & Resilience (Hands-On)

JPMorganChase; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in London seeks an Engineering Manager to lead an engineering team within Infrastructure Platforms, Data Center Services. You will guide delivery, balance hands-on coding with leadership, and ensure stability, resiliency, and operational readiness across a diverse application portfolio.

You will foster an inclusive culture with psychological safety, partner with stakeholders to plan work, and drive continuous improvement in agile rituals and practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Proven experience leading or managing engineers, including coaching, feedback, goal-setting, and performance management.
• Proven ability to build and sustain high-performing teams in an agile delivery environment.
• Strong hands-on engineering skills in modern web development and service development (e.g., React; Node.js with TypeScript; Python).
• Experience across the software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, release, and production support.
• Experience establishing and operating engineering practices such as coding standards, code review, and automated testing strategies.
• Practical experience with cloud deployments and operating applications hosted on virtual servers, including patching and capacity planning.
• Experience overseeing vendor-delivered or vendor-supported applications, including delivery governance and relationship management.
• Experience managing application resiliency and operational readiness, including incident management and remediation planning.
• Experience working in a regulated or controls-driven environment, including assessing risk, implementing controls, and addressing control gaps.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence and align across engineering, product, operations, and senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop software engineers, fostering inclusion, psychological safety, and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Own team delivery commitments by planning work, managing capacity, tracking progress, and removing blockers across the full development lifecycle.
• Define and enforce engineering standards and quality practices, including code review, testing, and automated delivery pipelines.
• Contribute hands-on as a senior engineer by writing, reviewing, and improving production code across modern web user interfaces and backend services.
• Partner with product and senior stakeholders to translate requirements into well-scoped technical plans and measurable outcomes.
• Lead agile rituals (planning, daily coordination, retrospectives, and backlog refinement) and continuously improve team ways of working.
• Oversee vendor-supported applications, including delivery quality, service performance expectations, and effective knowledge transfer.
• Own application stability and resiliency, coordinating incident response, root cause analysis, and sustained remediation.
• Maintain applications across cloud and virtual server environments, including patching, capacity management, environment separation, and disaster recovery testing coordination.
• Strengthen risk and controls posture by partnering with risk and control stakeholders to assess risk, implement controls, and remediate gaps.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and skills development to build a high-performing team aligned to the organization's priorities.

Skills

Leadership

Agile delivery

Hands-on engineering

React

Node.js

TypeScript

Python

Cloud deployments

Incident management

Risk & controls

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Code review

Version control

Job description

JPMorgan Chase in London seeks an Engineering Manager to lead an engineering team within Infrastructure Platforms, Data Center Services. You will guide delivery, balance hands-on coding with leadership, and ensure stability, resiliency, and operational readiness across a diverse application portfolio.

You will foster an inclusive culture with psychological safety, partner with stakeholders to plan work, and drive continuous improvement in agile rituals and practices.