Senior Platform Engineering Manager, Cloud & AI

Next Frontier Capital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Sr Manager of Software Engineering within the Cloud Platform Engineering team in the UK to lead a high-performing squad delivering scalable platform initiatives. You will align technical strategy with business goals, grow engineering talent, and foster an inclusive, responsible engineering culture.

You will guide incident response, champion best practices, and collaborate with senior leaders to set technical vision while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of technologists to solve complex technical items.
• Experience guiding architectural decisions across distributed systems.
• Strong communication to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in agile delivery of complex platform initiatives.
• Experience leading multi-team adoption of AI-assisted development tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of software engineers.
• Oversee end-to-end delivery of platform initiatives and translate requirements into roadmaps.
• Drive engineering standards, code quality, release processes, and scalable infrastructure.
• Set long-term technical vision aligned with business outcomes and regulatory requirements.
• Promote a you-build-it-you-run-it culture and oversee incident response.
• Foster cross-team collaboration and stakeholder consensus on architecture and delivery.
• Identify risks and improve delivery speed, quality, and reliability across teams.
• Define governance and ways of working for enterprise AI-assisted development.

Skills

People management

Software engineering

Cloud native systems

Kubernetes

Agile delivery

Incident response

AI governance

Communication

Business-objective translation

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

Terraform/Crossplane

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Sr Manager of Software Engineering within the Cloud Platform Engineering team in the UK to lead a high-performing squad delivering scalable platform initiatives. You will align technical strategy with business goals, grow engineering talent, and foster an inclusive, responsible engineering culture.

You will guide incident response, champion best practices, and collaborate with senior leaders to set technical vision while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements