Senior Lead Software Engineer- Gen AI and AIML

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in Glasgow seeks a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead and coach multiple technical teams in advancing financial technologies. The ideal candidate will have experience in applied AI/ML engineering and programming skills in Python. Key responsibilities include designing AI/ML solutions, managing teams, and improving operational efficiencies. Applicants should also have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering and proficiency with tools like TensorFlow and OpenAI API.

Qualifications

• Experience in developing and deploying machine learning models in production.
• Proficiency in Python for model development and integration.
• Solid understanding of statistics and machine learning fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and advise technical teams for financial technologies.
• Design and deploy AI/ML solutions for business objectives.
• Manage and guide ML and MLOps engineers.

Skills

Applied AI/ML engineering

Python programming

Collaboration skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

AWS

OpenAI API

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

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Job Description

When you mentor and advise multiple technical teams and move financial technologies forward, it's a big challenge with big impact. You were made for this.

As a Senior Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorganChase within the CORPORATE TECHNOLOGY, you serve in a leadership role by providing technical coaching and advisory for multiple technical teams, as well as anticipate the needs and potential dependencies of other functions within the firm. As an expert in your field, your insights influence budget and technical considerations to advance operational efficiencies and functionalities.

Job responsibilities

• Work closely with product managers, data scientists, ML engineers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and prioritize use cases.
• Design, develop, and deploy state-of-the-art AI/ML/LLM/GenAI solutions to meet business objectives.
• Manage, mentor, and guide a team of ML and MLOps engineers.
• Develop and maintain automated pipelines for model deployment, ensuring scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
• Implement optimization strategies to fine-tune generative models for specific NLP use cases, ensuring high‑quality outputs in summarization and text generation.
• Conduct thorough evaluations of generative models (e.g., GPT‑4.1), iterate on model architectures, and implement improvements to enhance overall performance in NLP applications.
• Implement monitoring mechanisms to track model performance in real‑time and ensure model reliability.
• Communicate AI/ML/LLM/GenAI capabilities and results to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Stay informed about the latest trends and advancements in the latest AI/ML/LLM/GenAI research, implement cutting‑edge techniques, and leverage external APIs for enhanced functionality.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Experience in applied AI/ML engineering, with a track record of developing and deploying business critical machine learning models in production.
• Proficiency in programming languages like Python for model development, experimentation, and integration with OpenAI API.
• Experience with machine learning frameworks, libraries, and APIs, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit‑learn, and OpenAI API.
• Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform), containerization technologies (e.g., Docker and Kubernetes), and microservices design, implementation, and performance optimization.
• Solid understanding of fundamentals of statistics, machine learning (e.g., classification, regression, time series, deep learning, reinforcement learning), and generative model architectures, particularly GANs, VAEs.
• Ability to identify and address AI/ML/LLM/GenAI challenges, implement optimizations and fine‑tune models for optimal performance in NLP applications.
• Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with cross‑functional teams, communicate complex concepts, and contribute to interdisciplinary projects.
• A portfolio showcasing successful applications of generative models in NLP projects, including examples of utilizing OpenAI APIs for prompt engineering.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with the financial services industries.
• Expertise in designing and implementing pipelines using Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG).
• Hands‑on knowledge of Chain‑of‑Thoughts, Tree‑of‑Thoughts, Graph‑of‑Thoughts prompting strategies.

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.