Sr Lead Software Engineer- Public Cloud

JPMorganChase; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join the Cloud Foundational Services Marketplace. You will guide architecture, develop scalable services, and drive secure, reliable cloud solutions for mission-critical infrastructure.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, deep cloud experience, and leadership across agile teams, with a focus on improving design decisions and system stability.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Deep expertise building reliable, scalable enterprise apps using cloud technologies.
• Experience mentoring software engineers and driving change.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance to support the business and technical teams.
• Influence product design, functionality, and operations.
• Act as a subject matter expert in focus areas and advocate SDLC best practices.
• Contribute to engineering community with leading-edge tools and practices.

Skills

System design

Cloud engineering

Mentoring engineers

Hands-on development

SDLC knowledge

Education

Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science/Engineering/Math

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Sentinel

Job description

Job Description

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver mission critical foundational services for the Public Cloud Atlas product.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase, within Cloud Foundational Services Marketplace (Infrastructure Platforms), you are an essential part of a curious and inspiring agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities, contributions and application of deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies. As a Lead Software Engineer you are in the middle of the most complex problem areas driving out solutions with the team.

Job Responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Experienced technologist with deep expertise in building reliable, scalable, and stable enterprise applications using cloud based technologies
• Experience in mentoring/coaching software engineers
• Desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly
• Strong hands-on development skills to prototype technical solutions
• Degree or equivalent academic qualifications in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• AWS and Terraform Certified
• Proficient in designing and provisioning applications on AWS Services, Terraform and Sentinel
• Own Technology Debt/Tech Modernization - ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of design decisions
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership for development and design of least one public cloud project

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.