Senior Lead Software Engineer - Python, AWS, AI-Driven Ops

Aumni; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan is seeking a Lead Software Engineer (Vice President) to enhance, build, and deliver secure, scalable technology products within an agile team. You will contribute hands-on design, development, and troubleshooting while driving automation and operational resilience.

You will evaluate emerging technologies, lead communities of practice, and guide teams in secure coding, AI-assisted development, and CI/CD practices, shaping engineering standards across the firm.

Qualifications

• Formal software engineering training or certification.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, development, testing, and operational stability.
• Proficient in Python and object-oriented programming.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and automation.

Responsibilities

• Deliver secure, high-quality production code and review peers’ work.
• Lead architecture evaluations with internal teams and external vendors.
• Drive automation to improve resilience and incident response.
• Promote enterprise AI-assisted engineering practices and secure coding standards.
• Foster an inclusive, high-performing engineering culture.
• Apply SDLC tools and validate AI-generated outputs for correctness and security.

Skills

Python

OOP

Automation

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

Cloud-native

AI-assisted development

Responsible AI

Problem solving

Education

Software engineering training or certification

Tools

React.js

Node.js

AWS data sources

SecDB

Athena

Quartz

Microservices

CI/CD tooling

Job description

J.P. Morgan is seeking a Lead Software Engineer (Vice President) to enhance, build, and deliver secure, scalable technology products within an agile team. You will contribute hands-on design, development, and troubleshooting while driving automation and operational resilience.

You will evaluate emerging technologies, lead communities of practice, and guide teams in secure coding, AI-assisted development, and CI/CD practices, shaping engineering standards across the firm.