Engineering Manager: Platform & Resilience Lead

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Westminster seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a high‑impact team, combining leadership with hands‑on delivery of software across web and service platforms.

You will partner with product, operations, and risk stakeholders to drive measurable outcomes and ensure stability, resiliency, and operational readiness across applications. You will foster an inclusive culture with psychological safety, guide engineering practices, and oversee vendor‑supported applications in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or related field.
• 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.
• Hands-on engineering skills in modern web development and service development (React; Node.js with TypeScript; Python).
• Experience across the software development lifecycle (design, implementation, testing, release, production support).
• Experience establishing engineering practices such as coding standards, code review, and automated testing strategies.
• Experience with cloud deployments and operating applications on virtual servers (patching, capacity planning).
• Experience overseeing vendor-delivered or vendor-supported applications and delivery governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop software engineers, fostering inclusion, psychological safety, and 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 UIs and backend services.
• Partner with product and senior stakeholders to translate requirements into technical plans and measurable outcomes.
• Lead agile rituals (planning, daily coordination, retrospectives, backlog refinement) and continuously improve team ways of working.
• Oversee vendor-supported applications, including delivery quality, service performance, and knowledge transfer.
• Own application stability and resiliency, coordinating incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation.
• Maintain applications across cloud and virtual server environments, including patching and capacity planning.
• Strengthen risk and controls posture by partnering with risk and control stakeholders to assess risk and remediate gaps.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and skills development to build a high-performing team.

Skills

Leadership

Agile delivery

SDLC

Code quality

Cloud deployments

Vendor management

Resiliency

Regulated environment

Communication

AI tooling

Platform engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

React

Node.js

TypeScript

Python

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Westminster seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a high‑impact team, combining leadership with hands‑on delivery of software across web and service platforms.

You will partner with product, operations, and risk stakeholders to drive measurable outcomes and ensure stability, resiliency, and operational readiness across applications. You will foster an inclusive culture with psychological safety, guide engineering practices, and oversee vendor‑supported applications in a