Senior Lead Python Engineer — AI-Ready Data Platform

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase, within the Asset Management Core Data & Analytics Engineering organization, seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to design and deliver data and analytics solutions on a federated data platform. Lead development of scalable data pipelines and Data Products while embedding AI-ready foundations.

You will provide technical guidance, drive secure, observable solutions, and partner with Quantitative Research and Technology teams to improve time-to-data, trust, and consumption patterns

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced in one or more programming languages, including Python.
• Experience using enterprise AI-assisted software development tools and code reviews.
• Strong secure coding practices, data sensitivity handling, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical guidance to business and technical teams delivering data ingestion, transformation, distribution, and data product capabilities on a federated data platform.
• Designs and develops production-grade code for scalable data pipelines, data services, and marketplace-facing Data Products; reviews, debugs, and improves code written by others.
• Leads design and implementation of reusable platform capabilities that make the platform and Data Products AI-ready (e.g., metadata, lineage, quality signals).
• Drives decisions influencing product design, data product contracts, distribution approaches, and engineering processes to improve time-to-data and reliability.
• Applies SDLC tools and AI-assisted development to improve automation and value realization.
• Establishes engineering standards and automation across the SDLC (testing, CI/CD, observability, performance) to ensure secure, stable, scalable solutions.
• Drives adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and governance across teams with measurable validation standards.
• Acts as SME in data engineering patterns, distributed processing, data product design, and platform enablement.

Skills

Python

Independent work

Cloud native

AI-assisted tooling

Leadership

Education

Software engineering certification

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

CI/CD tools

Job description

JPMorganChase, within the Asset Management Core Data & Analytics Engineering organization, seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to design and deliver data and analytics solutions on a federated data platform. Lead development of scalable data pipelines and Data Products while embedding AI-ready foundations.

You will provide technical guidance, drive secure, observable solutions, and partner with Quantitative Research and Technology teams to improve time-to-data, trust, and consumption patterns