Senior Lead Software Engineer - Go / Kubernetes / Python - Public Cloud Engineering

J.P. MORGAN; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Bonus potential

Pension plan

Career progression

Job summary

J.P. Morgan is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer for its Public Cloud IAM team in London. The role involves shaping the technical direction, leading platform services, and delivering secure, scalable solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture reviews, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to raise the bar on operational excellence while promoting responsible AI tooling and secure practices.

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.
• Experience with Identity and Access Management platforms, RBAC, or entitlement governance at scale.
• Advanced proficiency in Go, Python, Java, Kubernetes or Terraform.
• Practical cloud-native experience building and operating services on one or more public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Understanding of agile methodologies, CI/CD, resiliency, and security.
• Ability to evaluate technical solutions with a customer-focused mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of platform services and infrastructure with emphasis on architecture and reliability.
• Develop, review, debug, and maintain secure production code and ensure standards.
• Identify opportunities to automate remediation for stability across apps and systems.
• Lead design reviews and architecture discussions for scalable delivery.
• Partner with architecture, trust, and IAM consumers to land coherent designs.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

Kubernetes

Terraform

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Architectural leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Formal software engineering training

Job description

Job Description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

About Team

We are expanding our Public Cloud Engineering organization into EMEA region by establishing a new Identity and Access Management (IAM) team to better serve our customers and strengthen collaboration across our global engineering teams.

This is a unique opportunity to join at the ground level and help shape a new team, it's technical direction, engineering culture, and operational excellence. The team will own critical Identity domains that supports our platform across multiple public cloud infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

We foster a culture of continuous improvement, growth, and talent development by investing in strong engineering practices, hands‑on delivery, coaching and cross‑team collaboration. We believe great platforms are built by empowered teams that learn, innovate, and continuously raise bar for technical excellence.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgranChase within Public Cloud Engineering, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you help set architecture direction, guide system‑level design, and drive engineering excellence as tools evolve and standards remain high.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of platform services and infrastructure with an emphasis on architecture, integration patterns, and system reliability
• Develop, review, debug, and maintain secure, high-quality production code, applying engineering judgment to ensure it meets our standards regardless of whether it originates from you, a teammate, or an approved artificial intelligence tool
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability across applications and systems
• Lead design reviews and architecture discussions to evaluate solutions, strengthen technical quality, and support scalable delivery
• Partner with platform architecture, trust and authorization teams, and downstream IAM consumers to land coherent designs across organizational seams
• Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to increase awareness and adoption of new and leading‑edge technologies
• Mentoring and coaching engineers through technical guidance
• Foster a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, respect, continuous improvement, and shared learning

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• 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
• Experience with Identity and Access Management platforms, role‑based access control, or entitlement governance at scale
• Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages, frameworks, or platforms such as Go, Python, Java, Kubernetes or Terraform
• Practical cloud-native experience building and operating services on at least one public cloud provider, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as continuous integration and continuous delivery, application resiliency, and security
• Ability to evaluate technical solutions with a customer‑focused mindset and understand how engineering decisions impact users and business outcomes
• Strong communication skills with the ability to adapt messages for technical and non‑technical audiences
• Responsible use of approved artificial intelligence tooling, with critical judgement to validate quality, correctness, security, and performance

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience working in financial services or another highly regulated technology environment with formal audit and control posture
• Experience contributing to public cloud platform services, developer platforms, or shared engineering capabilities
• Familiarity with responsible artificial intelligence use in engineering workflows, including secure handling of inputs and outputs
• Experience improving developer experience, platform reliability, or operational efficiency at scale

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.