Senior Python Architect for Context Plane AI Platform

JPMorganChase; Glasgow; Sur place; GBP 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

JPMorganChase in Glasgow is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join the Corporate Technology Data and Analytics Services team, as a founding contributor to the Context Plane — a greenfield platform connecting data mesh and AI tools. You will own components end-to-end, from ingestion pipelines to governed retrieval services, in a hands-on senior role with architectural scope.

You will collaborate across engineering, product, and data science to deliver measurable capabilities, promote

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering and applied experience.
• Proven track record building production-grade Python backend services.
• Strong API design, automated testing, CI/CD, and source control.
• Experience building scalable data ingestion pipelines and data quality.
• Experience with AWS and containerized services (Docker/ECS).
• Ability to own components end-to-end from design to deployment.
• Strong collaboration across engineering, product, and data science.
• Experience using enterprise AI tools and evaluating AI-generated outputs.
• Understanding of responsible AI, data sensitivity, and secure handling.

Responsabilités

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and data pipelines in Python that load firm knowledge into a knowledge graph and vector store
• Build and evolve the serving layer — including graph and vector retrieval, GraphRAG, response assembly, and a Model Context Protocol endpoint consumed by downstream agents
• Extract and promote reusable components into a shared core library, reducing duplication across the platform’s repositories
• Integrate with data sources and services across the firm, including enterprise AI and large language model gateways
• Own quality across your components: automated testing, code reviews, observability, and resilient, secure service design
• Partner with Corporate Technology AI, product, and data science colleagues to translate concrete use cases into working, measurable capabilities
• Contribute to design discussions and agile ceremonies, and actively mentor teammates to raise the engineering bar across the team
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation

Connaissances

Python

Backend systems

API design

CI/CD

AWS

Containerization

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Security and resilience

Outils

FastAPI

Docker

ECS

Description du poste

JPMorganChase in Glasgow is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join the Corporate Technology Data and Analytics Services team, as a founding contributor to the Context Plane — a greenfield platform connecting data mesh and AI tools. You will own components end-to-end, from ingestion pipelines to governed retrieval services, in a hands-on senior role with architectural scope.

You will collaborate across engineering, product, and data science to deliver measurable capabilities, promote