Senior Lead Software Engineer - AI-Enabled Secure Cloud

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer within Global Banking. You will guide agile teams to design, build, and deliver trusted, secure technology products for complex financial workloads.

You will drive AI-assisted development adoption, enforce secure coding and automated testing, and serve as a subject-matter expert across the SDLC. The role requires strong Java and JavaScript capabilities and hands-on cloud-native experience to deliver scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced in one or more programming languages.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-approved AI-assisted software development tools and setting team expectations for AI outputs.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows and coaching on compliant usage patterns.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little oversight.
• Practical cloud native experience.

Responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
• Drives adoption and governance of AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, with measurable validation standards and reuse of patterns.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the SDLC toolchain, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale.
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus.
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle.

Skills

Java

JavaScript

Cloud native

AI-assisted development

Leadership

Problem solving

Education

Software engineering certification

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer within Global Banking. You will guide agile teams to design, build, and deliver trusted, secure technology products for complex financial workloads.

You will drive AI-assisted development adoption, enforce secure coding and automated testing, and serve as a subject-matter expert across the SDLC. The role requires strong Java and JavaScript capabilities and hands-on cloud-native experience to deliver scalable solutions.