AI-Driven Software Engineering Lead — Cloud & Microservices

JPMorgan Chase; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in Columbus seeks a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead a high-impact team within Cash and Check Management Tech. You will provide technical coaching, drive architecture, and partner with Architects and product leaders to deliver reliable, scalable systems.

The role emphasizes AI-driven development, cross-functional collaboration, and engineering standard-setting across the organization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years total experience including 5+ years in microservices development and team leadership.
• Hands-on Java with Spring/Spring Boot in AWS/cloud.
• Experience with distributed systems and cloud technologies (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Experience with data streaming and messaging (Kafka/Spark) and containers (Docker/Kubernetes/Helm).
• Mentor engineers on technical growth and AI-assisted development, fostering quality and safety.
• Proven ability to influence roadmaps and translate tech topics into business impact for executives.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical integrity and quality of the team's delivery, partnering with Architects on design and with the team on breaking down and estimating complex work
• Ensure development quality is tracked and continuously improved through practices like unit testing, peer review, and automated remediation of recurring issues
• Mentor team members to progress their technical and professional skills, and build a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
• Partner with product and business leaders, aligning roadmaps and securing cross-functional buy-in with clear data and trade-offs; frame complex technology and risk topics as business impact for executive audiences
• Lead cross-team delivery and change through ambiguity, resolving conflict and raising engineering standards for design, reliability, and security
• Build and integrate agentic AI capabilities, including autonomous agents, workflow automation, and AI-driven decision-making, into CCB products and platforms
• Champion an AI-First mindset for the team – proactively leveraging AI and automation tools not only for software delivery, but for day-to-day work such as documentation, status reporting, meeting preparation, research, and communications – to increase individual and team productivity

Skills

Team leadership

Mentoring

AI-assisted development

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud technologies

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Kafka

Spark

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

JPMorgan Chase in Columbus seeks a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead a high-impact team within Cash and Check Management Tech. You will provide technical coaching, drive architecture, and partner with Architects and product leaders to deliver reliable, scalable systems.

The role emphasizes AI-driven development, cross-functional collaboration, and engineering standard-setting across the organization.