Lead Software Engineer - Application Owner

Next Frontier Capital; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in the United Kingdom seeks a hands‑on Application Owner and Lead Software Engineer to own end‑to‑end production readiness and controls for the Atlas Wholesale Platform. You will lead audits, coordinate risk remediation, and drive secure, scalable design while staying technically hands‑on in design, review, and automation.

You will partner with engineering, platform, risk & control, and operations to ensure secure and stable operation, with emphasis on resiliency, observability,

Qualifications

• Experience running production‑grade enterprise software.
• Strong ownership of production apps including controls, resiliency and remediation tracking.
• Cloud‑native design with emphasis on scalability, observability, and dependency management.
• Hands‑on Go services and modern CI/CD practices.
• Experience with AWS and Kubernetes/EKS in production.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the accountable application owner for the Atlas Wholesale Platform with clear production ownership.
• Lead audits and control testing activities, including evidence and remediation commitments.
• Own lifecycle of risk findings from intake through remediation and closure.
• Maintain architecture and runbooks with design, data flows, and dependencies.
• Own resiliency and disaster recovery planning including tests and post‑action reviews.
• Define and improve production readiness standards, release safety, and rollback strategy.
• Contribute hands‑on to design, review, automation, and secure‑by‑design delivery.
• Build automation to improve operational outcomes and safer deployment patterns.
• Lead architecture assessments with internal and external partners for security and viability.
• Promote AI‑assisted engineering practices with validated outputs and secure adoption.

Skills

Go-based services

Cloud/AWS

Kubernetes / EKS

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Observability / monitoring

AI-assisted development tools

Security by design

SDLC / release management

Stakeholder alignment without direct

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

CI/CD tooling

Job description

As an Application Owner and Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within Public Cloud Engineering, you will own the application’s end-to-end operational integrity including controls, audit readiness, resiliency, recovery, and production outcomes, while remaining hands-on in engineering leadership.

You will partner closely with engineering, platform, risk and control, and operations stakeholders to ensure the platform is built and run in a secure, stable, and scalable way.

This role suits a hands-on technical leader who enjoys solving complex operational problems, driving remediation to closure, and raising the bar on engineering excellence.

Key responsibilities:

• Serve as the accountable application owner for Atlas Wholesale Platform, ensuring clear ownership of production risk, controls, and operational outcomes.
• Lead audits and control testing activities for the application, including walkthroughs, evidence preparation, issue responses, and remediation commitments.
• Own the lifecycle of risk and control findings from intake through remediation and closure, coordinating across internal teams and third parties as needed.
• Maintain current, high‑quality architecture and operational documentation, including high‑level design, dependency maps, data flows, control narratives, and runbooks.
• Own resiliency and disaster recovery planning, including recovery objectives, test execution, after‑action reviews, and closure of follow‑up actions.
• Define and continuously improve production readiness standards, including release safety and rollback strategy, dependency awareness, observability requirements, and operational runbooks.
• Contribute hands‑on to design and delivery, including system design, code reviews, automation, and complex troubleshooting, with secure‑by‑design and reliable‑by‑default solutions.
• Build and maintain automation that improves operational outcomes, such as guardrails, health checks, drift detection, remediation automation, and safer deployment patterns.
• Lead architecture and design evaluations with internal partners and external vendors, assessing technical fit, security posture, and operational viability.
• Drives team adoption of enterprise‑authorized AI‑assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI‑assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root‑cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise‑authorized AI‑assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience building and operating enterprise software in production, including design, development, testing, and operational excellence.
• Demonstrated experience owning production applications with strong operational accountability, including controls, resiliency and recovery, and remediation tracking.
• Strong system design fundamentals and cloud‑native operational patterns, including scalability, reliability, observability, and dependency management.
• Hands‑on experience with Go‑based services and modern CI/CD practices.
• Experience operating workloads on AWS and Kubernetes or EKS in a production environment.
• Practical experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform and supporting release safety through automation.
• Strong understanding of SDLC best practices, including automated testing, change management, and vulnerability management.
• Ability to lead through influence with no direct reports, align stakeholders, and drive issues to closure.
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI‑assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices

Preferred qualifications

• Experience participating in audits and or security compliance assessments, such as PCI or similar.
• Experience with advanced Kubernetes operational patterns, including policy and guardrails, progressive delivery, service‑to‑service security, and multi‑AZ resilience.
• Experience using agentic AI developer tools to improve throughput and quality within appropriate governance and secure usage patterns.
• Experience with additional cloud providers, such as Azure or Google Cloud.

J.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.

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success. Carry out critical tech solutions across multiple technical areas as an integral part of an agile team