Sr Lead Software Engineer - Market Risk Technology SRE

JPMorgan Chase; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Lead Engineer for the Market Risk Technology SRE team in London. You will define non-functional requirements and availability targets, ensure SLIs measure customer experience, and implement SLOs in production.

You will mentor engineers, design observability suites for complex systems, and champion AI-enabled reliability across the SDLC, ensuring security and auditability.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on site reliability engineering concepts.
• 5+ years applied experience in SRE or related field.
• Proficiency in Python or Java.
• Strong observability and reliability design experience.
• Experience using enterprise AI capabilities to improve reliability.
• Ability to define NFRs and SLIs/SLOs with stakeholders.
• Mentor and lead engineers; promote best practices.

Responsibilities

• Creates and delivers high quality designs, roadmaps, and program charters alongside the engineering team
• Acts as a key resource and mentor for technologists in your area seeking advice on technical and business issues, and serves as a culture carrier and site reliability adoption champion for your team
• Collaborates with others to create and implement observability and reliability designs for complex systems which are robust, stable, and do not incur additional toil or technical debt
• Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate reliability design and operational decisioning (e.g., incident/post-incident analysis and requirements traceability), validating outputs and handling operational data according to sensitivity and security requirements.
• Drives evolution and debugging of critical components by understanding application and platform interdependencies and limitations
• Provides comprehensive and ongoing guidance, tools, and solutions to support the firms' growth
• Make significant contributions to JPMorganChase's site reliability community via internal forums, communities of practice, guilds, and conferences
• Leads reuse-first adoption of AI-assisted reliability workflows across SDLC/toolchain practices (e.g., testing/validation automation and production readiness), ensuring traceability/auditability, resiliency, and security controls.

Skills

Python

Java

Observability

AI in operations

Mentoring

Communication

Education

SRE certification

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Elevate your engineering prowess to unprecedented levels by joining a team of exceptionally gifted professionals and position yourself among the top echelon in site reliability.

As a Senior Lead Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Market Risk Technology SRE team, you work with your fellow stakeholders to define non-functional requirements (NFRs) and availability targets for the services in your application and product lines. You will ensure those NFRs are accounted for in your products' design and test phases, that your service level indicators are effectively measuring customer experience, and that service level objectives are defined with stakeholders and implemented in production.

Job responsibilities

• Creates and delivers high quality designs, roadmaps, and program charters alongside the engineering team
• Acts as a key resource and mentor for technologists in your area seeking advice on technical and business issues, and serves as a culture carrier and site reliability adoption champion for your team
• Collaborates with others to create and implement observability and reliability designs for complex systems which are robust, stable, and do not incur additional toil or technical debt
• Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate reliability design and operational decisioning (e.g., incident/post-incident analysis and requirements traceability), validating outputs and handling operational data according to sensitivity and security requirements.
• Drives evolution and debugging of critical components by understanding application and platform interdependencies and limitations
• Provides comprehensive and ongoing guidance, tools, and solutions to support the firms' growth
• Make significant contributions to JPMorganChase's site reliability community via internal forums, communities of practice, guilds, and conferences
• Leads reuse-first adoption of AI-assisted reliability workflows across SDLC/toolchain practices (e.g., testing/validation automation and production readiness), ensuring traceability/auditability, resiliency, and security controls.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on site reliability engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Fluency in at least one programming language such as Python, Java.
• Brings an advanced understanding of site reliability culture and principles and a track record of demonstrating how to implement site reliability within an application or platform
• Advanced knowledge and experience in observability such as white and black box monitoring, service level objectives, alerting, and telemetry collection
• Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to improve reliability engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
• Ability to set team practices for safe AI usage in operations (e.g., review/approval expectations and escalation paths) while maintaining resiliency, security, and auditability outcomes.
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable depth in one or more technical disciplines
• Demonstrated ability to communicate data-based solutions with complex reporting and visualization methods
• Recognized as an active contributor of the engineering community
• Strong communication skills and a desire to mentor and educate others on site reliability engineering principles and practices
• Track record of automating and delivering business process improvement.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Fluency in Python
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemtry
• Familiarity with cloud technologies such as AWS or GCP, including deployment, management, and optimization of cloud-based applications
• Experience working in the financial/fintech industry

ABOUT US

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.