Principal Software Engineer - Executive Director

Fairygodboss; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan is seeking a Principal Software Engineer within Infrastructure Platforms Engineering & AI Practices to lead the design and build of platforms and services that meet access, compliance, and governance requirements.

You will shape patterns across teams to ensure security and governance are embedded from the start. Role focuses on architecting scalable systems, leading engineers across multi-team initiatives, and delivering high-impact software that aligns with enterprise security

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
• Production-grade systems ownership in large enterprise environments.
• Proficiency in 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 patterns.
• Understanding of responsible AI use and governance in engineering workflows.
• Influence across large organizations to drive pattern adoption and reuse.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems or internal platforms.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build governance-by-design patterns and libraries embedding policy controls and evidence collection.
• Create standards and tooling (CLI, SDKs, libraries, templates, automated checks) for compliant identity solutions.
• Partner with platform owners to embed continuous compliance reporting in systems.
• Integrate AI capabilities to enhance pattern delivery and reporting.
• Drive engineering excellence through design reviews, architectures, coding standards and reliability practices.
• Coach engineers and foster a culture of quality and ownership.
• Collaborate with identity architects, platform engineers, and risk partners to align solutions.
• Architect and govern agentic AI-enabled development workflows with guardrails for security and reuse.
• Apply SDLC toolchain knowledge to improve automation at scale.

Skills

Python

Java

C++

Go

Scala

AI-assisted development

Security and governance concepts

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Architectural patterns

Communication skills

Education

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts

Tools

CLI

SDKs

Libraries

Templates

Job description

As we continue to accelerate the transformation of our technology and services, we are placing security and compliance at the heart of our engineering and platforms. This is an opportunity to lead at the intersection of infrastructure engineering, identity security, and AI-shaping how teams across the firm build and govern technology at scale.

As a Principal Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within Infrastructure Platforms Engineering & AI Practices, you will help design and build platforms and shared services that meet our access, compliance, and governance requirements so that we are always secure from the start. Your focus will be to collaborate with teams across our organization to ensure that our platforms and applications define and leverage patterns and solutions consistently to meet evolving requirements for infrastructure identity and security requirements in an AI-enabled environment.

This role is suited to a senior engineer who has hands-on skills to lead across multiple teams-defining architecture, engineering practices and standards, and delivering high-impact software that scales.

Job 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 (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) to improve delivery speed, code quality, and operational outcomes at scale (e.g., AI-driven PR review assistance, test generation/maintenance, release readiness checks, incident triage and root-cause acceleration), 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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 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 (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) across teams, including setting standards for human-in-the-loop validation, auditability/traceability of changes, and secure handling of sensitive data
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use and control expectations in engineering workflows, including security/resiliency implications, data sensitivity, and risk-based governance; ability to influence senior technical leaders on safe scaling patterns and reuse

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience delivering systems with auditability, traceability, and compliance requirements in regulated environments
• Ability to influence architecture decisions and collaborate effectively across teams

ABOUT US

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 strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

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.

ABOUT THE TEAM

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.