Platform Engineering Lead - Cloud & Kubernetes

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer (Platform) to set technical direction across squads, drive secure production code, and build scalable, cloud-native platform services in a fintech environment.

You will lead engineering standards, mentor leaders, and advance AI-assisted tooling while ensuring operational reliability and strong security. The role emphasizes cross-squad leadership, architecture governance, and a culture of inclusion in a fast-paced, customer-centric

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts, such as CKAD, Google Associate Cloud Engineer, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability, including leading technical delivery in complex environments.
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s), such as Go, Java or Kotlin.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies, CI/CD, application resiliency, and security, including setting standards and driving adoption across teams.
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and processes within a technical domain, such as cloud, AI, ML, mobile, etc.
• Practical cloud native experience, deploying Kubernetes applications on a cloud service provider, such as GCP, AWS, or Azure, at meaningful scale.
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools with 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 and secure handling of inputs/outputs

Responsibilities

• Sets technical direction for platform engineering across squads, aligning architecture, delivery, and operational excellence to business outcomes and risk controls.
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others; establishes engineering standards and best practices.
• Designs and develops composable infrastructure systems and capabilities, with a focus on scalable platform services.
• Designs, builds, and operates Kubernetes-based platform services; automates developer self-service and CI/CD; improves reliability and operational readiness; strengthens platform security and controls via IaC, policy-as-code, and hardening standards.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
• Provides operational support and leadership for production systems in a "you-build-it-you-run-it" culture, including incident response, post-incident learning, and continuous reliability improvements.
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture.
• Leads and grows communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness, adoption, and use of new and leading-edge technologies.
• Coaches and mentors engineers, developing technical leadership capability and supporting high performance across teams.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
• Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, while establishing measurable validation standards and promoting reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC/TLM toolchain.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale.

Skills

Go

Java

Kotlin

Cloud-native

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Security

AI-assisted tools

Education

CKAD

Google Associate Cloud Engineer

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Tools

Terraform

Crossplane

GitOps

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer (Platform) to set technical direction across squads, drive secure production code, and build scalable, cloud-native platform services in a fintech environment.

You will lead engineering standards, mentor leaders, and advance AI-assisted tooling while ensuring operational reliability and strong security. The role emphasizes cross-squad leadership, architecture governance, and a culture of inclusion in a fast-paced, customer-centric