Principal Infra & AI Platforms Architect

Fairygodboss; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead multiple teams across infrastructure engineering and AI practices. You will design platforms with governance patterns, deliver scalable software, and embed security and compliance into every layer of development.

The role emphasizes agentic AI-enabled workflows, standard patterns, and collaboration with identity architects and risk partners to achieve secure, auditable outcomes at scale.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and expert applied experience
• Professional software engineering experience with ownership of complex, production‑grade systems in large enterprise environments
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, C++, Go, or Scala
• Experience using AI assistants in software engineering including agentic capabilities
• Experience developing engineering practices across teams, including identity and security engineering patterns and standards
• Understanding of responsible AI use and control expectations in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, resiliency/security implications, and governance
• Experience influencing leaders and engineers across large organizations to drive pattern adoption and reuse
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems or internal platforms used by multiple teams
• Strong technical communication and stakeholder management skills
• Demonstrated experience designing and leading adoption of agentic AI‑enabled development practices across teams

Responsibilities

• Architect and build governance‑by‑design patterns and libraries that embed policy controls, approvals, and evidence collection
• Create standards and tooling (CLI, SDKs, libraries, templates, automated checks) that make it easy to adopt and evidence compliant identity solutions across diverse platforms and services
• Partner with platform owners to ensure that continuous compliance reporting is embedded in the systems we build and consume
• Integrate AI capabilities so that our standard patterns include agent‑ready identity constructs and can leverage AI where useful for reporting and review
• Drive engineering excellence through design reviews, reference architectures, coding standards, performance benchmarking, and reliability engineering practices as part of existing governance processes
• Coach and grow engineers, providing technical guidance and fostering a culture of quality, ownership, and continuous improvement
• Work closely with identity architects, platform engineers, and risk and control partners to ensure we leverage best‑in‑class solutions and embed them in our development practices and tools
• Architects and governs agentic AI‑enabled engineering workflows to improve delivery speed, code quality, and operational outcomes at scale, while defining guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, and reuse across teams
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise‑authorized AI‑assisted development and automation capabilities

Skills

Python

Java

C++

Go

Scala

AI assistants in software engineering

Security engineering patterns

Distributed systems

Stakeholder management

Technical communication

Agentic AI-enabled development

Tools

CLI tools

SDKs

Templates

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead multiple teams across infrastructure engineering and AI practices. You will design platforms with governance patterns, deliver scalable software, and embed security and compliance into every layer of development.

The role emphasizes agentic AI-enabled workflows, standard patterns, and collaboration with identity architects and risk partners to achieve secure, auditable outcomes at scale.