Platform Engineering Lead: AI-Driven & Scalable Impact

JPMorganChase; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan in London is seeking a Platform Engineering Leader to guide a team of software engineers, shaping the future of our enterprise platform while focusing on customers and regulatory alignment.

You'll drive end-to-end delivery, establish standards, and partner with senior leadership to set the technical vision, champion AI governance, and improve reliability across multi-team initiatives.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience, with a track record leading technologists
• Proven people-management or team-lead experience
• Strong background in software engineering, cloud-native systems, and Kubernetes
• Ability to guide decisions and evaluate designs across distributed systems
• Experience managing production systems and incident response
• Experience leading multi-team adoption of AI-assisted development tools and governance
• Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows

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

Skills

People management

Strategic leadership

Kubernetes

Cloud native

Agile delivery

Incident response

AI governance

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Crossplane

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

J.P. Morgan in London is seeking a Platform Engineering Leader to guide a team of software engineers, shaping the future of our enterprise platform while focusing on customers and regulatory alignment.

You'll drive end-to-end delivery, establish standards, and partner with senior leadership to set the technical vision, champion AI governance, and improve reliability across multi-team initiatives.