Senior Software Engineering Manager - Cloud Platform Leader

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

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.