Senior Manager of Software Engineering

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Glasgow seeks a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead the Calypso team, delivering trusted market-leading technology in a secure, scalable way.

As a core technical contributor and people leader, you will mentor engineers and coordinate across teams to reduce toil and improve platform reliability. You balance hands-on coding with people management, drive architectural discussions, and ensure rigorous delivery through agile practices and strong governance.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading or line-managing high performance software engineering teams in an agile environment.
• Formal cloud training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, operational stability, scalability.
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) such as go, java, python, terraform.
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security.
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., API development, AWS cloud, Kubernetes, platform engineering).

Responsibilities

• Builds and sustains a high performance engineering team through structured hiring, onboarding, regular one-to-ones, performance development, and active coaching of engineers at all levels.
• Creates an environment where engineers are empowered to do their best work, with clear goals, rapid feedback loops, and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Skills

Leadership

Agile

Go

Java

Python

Terraform

Cloud

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Tools

CI/CD tooling

APIs

Job description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible. As a team Senior Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase on the Calypso team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor and people leader, you are responsible for building and sustaining a high performance engineering team, conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives. The Calypso team is building a managed infrastructure platform that simplifies and standardises how application teams across JPMC provision and operate cloud resources, with a core goal of reducing the infrastructure toil and Technology Lifecycle Management burden carried by application teams today. As team lead, you will balance hands-on technical contribution with people management, mentoring, and cross-team coordination.

Job responsibilities

• Builds and sustains a high performance engineering team through structured hiring, onboarding, regular one-to-ones, performance development, and active coaching of engineers at all levels
• Creates an environment where engineers are empowered to do their best work, with clear goals, rapid feedback loops, and a culture of continuous improvement
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Demonstrated experience leading or line-managing high performance software engineering teams in an agile environment
• Formal cloud training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, operational stability, scalability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) such as go, java, python, terraform
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., API development, AWS cloud, Kubernetes, platform engineering)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Practical cloud native experience
• Background in platform engineering or internal developer platforms