Senior Lead Software Engineer - GCP/AWS

J.P. MORGAN; Scotland; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services leader is looking for a Senior Lead Software Engineer in the UK, focusing on cloud services adoption. The role involves providing technical guidance and delivering high-quality production code within an agile team. Candidates should have extensive experience in cloud engineering and programming languages like Python, Java, or Golang. The position promotes diversity and inclusion, and is open to all qualified applicants.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on cloud engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience.
• Extensive practical experience with at least one public cloud.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical guidance and direction to support teams and contractors.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code.
• Influences product design and application functionality decisions.
• Acts as a subject matter expert in specific areas.

Skills

Cloud engineering concepts

Google Cloud Platform

Amazon Web Services

Python

Java

Golang

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Mathematics

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Description

Be an integral part of an agile team that’s constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top‑notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Public Cloud Engineering organization, you play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to facilitating the adoption and utilization of public cloud services across the company. Your contributions and expertise promote significant business impact, as you leverage your deep technical knowledge and problem‑solving skills to address a wide range of challenges involving various technologies and applications.

Job 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 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
• Influences peers and project decision‑makers to consider the use and application of leading‑edge technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on cloud engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience
• Extensive practical experience with at least one public cloud (Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services)
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s): Python, Java, Golang
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Hands‑on practical experience with Infrastructure As Code tooling (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Practical cloud native experience including containerization and Kubernetes
• Relevant public cloud certifications (GCP Cloud Architect, GCP Cloud DevOps Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect, AWS CloudOps Engineer etc.)
• Experience building and operating observability platforms for large organisations (GCP Cloud Logging, GCP Cloud Monitoring, AWS CloudWatch)

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 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.