Principal Platform Engineer, AI-Driven Security & Governance

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

Job summary

Archer, in collaboration with JPMorgan Chase, seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead security‑by‑design across infrastructure platforms and AI practices. You will shape governance patterns, build reusable libraries, and embed compliance reporting while guiding multiple teams to adopt scalable, agentic AI‑enabled development practices.

The role focuses on designing architecture, engineering standards, and high‑impact software for enterprise environments, with hands‑on leadership across teams

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, to improve the value realized by automation at scale.

Skills

Python

Java

C++

Go

Scala

Strong technical communication

Leadership experience

AI-enabled development

Education

Formal software engineering training

Tools

CLI tooling

SDKs

Job description

Archer, in collaboration with JPMorgan Chase, seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead security‑by‑design across infrastructure platforms and AI practices. You will shape governance patterns, build reusable libraries, and embed compliance reporting while guiding multiple teams to adopt scalable, agentic AI‑enabled development practices.

The role focuses on designing architecture, engineering standards, and high‑impact software for enterprise environments, with hands‑on leadership across teams