Senior Lead Software Engineer - Python, Data, Cloud, AIML

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Auchentibber; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Scotland is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join the Markets Research Technology team. You will lead agile delivery of secure, scalable, cloud-native data and AIML-powered products, driving production-grade backend solutions across multiple business functions.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering with optional data science/ML modeling experience, working to industrialize AI/ML models at production scale in a secure environment.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering.
• Hands-on experience in system design, development, testing, and operational stability.
• Proficient in Python and modern programming languages.
• Experience with cloud services, microservices, and data‑intensive applications.
• Experience in large corporate environments.

Responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine approaches.
• Creates secure and high‑quality production code and maintains algorithms running with appropriate systems.
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while ensuring design constraints are met by software code development.
• Builds engineering stack for Data and AIML products, including data engineering, backend engineering, Cloud infra DevOps and MLOps.
• Designs and implements data engineering solutions using modern big data technologies.
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events exploring new technologies.
• Embraces learning, problem-solving, creative thinking and a can-do attitude.

Skills

Python

System design

Microservices

Cloud

Docker

Kubernetes

ML/AI

Data engineering

Tools

AWS

S3

Glue

ETL

OpenSearch

CI/CD

Job description

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within theCommercial & Investment Bank's Markets Research Technologyteam,you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives. You will work on challenging Cloud-native data, backend engineering and AIML engineering,helping usindustrialize AI/ML models at Production scale. This role is a technical hands-on Engineering role. Experience with data science/ML modeling is advantageous but not essential to this role.

Job responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Builds engineering stack required for Data and AIML products, including data engineering, backend engineering, Cloud infra DevOps and MLOps
• Designs and implements data engineering solutions, leveraging modern big data technologies
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Embraces a passion for learning, problem-solving, creative thinking and a can-do attitude.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification onsoftware engineeringconcepts and proficient applied experience
• Hands‑on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficient in coding in one or more languages- Python
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Proven track record in system design, architecting and developing microservices, distributed systems and data‑intensive applications
• Experience with Cloud services, Infrastructure as Code, containerized application development, big data and modern data engineering technologies
• Practical experience developing Production-scale Cloud-native data engineering solutions in commercial environments
• Familiarity with Cloud Data engineering services (e.g., ETL, Glue, S3, Athena) and MLOps stack
• Ability to convey design choices and results clearly and communicate effectively to stakeholders of various backgrounds

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with data, AWS and AIML engineering in commercial settings, preferably in financial sector
• Experience working on recommendation systems, LLM applications or other AI/ML systems
• Practical experience with Kubernetes, EKS, Docker, MLOps
• Prior exposure to LLMs, RAG, Knowledge Graph Technologies, OpenSearch and vector databases
• Prior experience collaborating with data scientists