Lead Software Engineer & AWS/SRE | AI-Driven Reliability

JP Morgan Chase; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

JP Morgan Chase is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in Columbus to drive Live Site Management, cloud production practices, and AI-integrated engineering across the Deposits team within Consumer & Community Banking.

You will lead SRE practices, incident response, and production readiness, shaping end-to-end cloud architecture and cost optimization while maintaining secure, scalable systems.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Deep, broad AWS expertise across compute, data, networking, security, and observability, with proven production architecture experience.
• Systems thinking, including the ability to reason about trade-offs, failure modes, and dependencies across an entire product.
• Strategic command of cost, scalability, automation, reliability, and AI integration as connected levers.
• Hands-on depth to validate and prototype ideas, not just advise.
• Executive communication and rigorous, independent judgment in a regulated, high-stakes environment.
• Proven experience managing cloud-hosted production services and leading Live Site Management practices in complex, business-critical environments.
• Strong SRE and observability expertise, including SLI/SLO definition, error budgets, telemetry, distributed tracing, alert design, capacity management, and performance engineering.
• Demonstrated ability to lead high-severity incident response, perform root-cause analysis, and drive durable remediation across multiple engineering teams.
• Experience establishing production readiness standards, operational controls, runbooks, dashboards, and measurable service health objectives.
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools, with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, secure handling of inputs and outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead Live Site Management and cloud production management practices, including production readiness, change governance, incident response, problem management, and operational risk reduction.
• Define and improve SRE practices, including service-level indicators, service-level objectives, error budgets, capacity planning, and reliability engineering.
• Advance observability across applications and infrastructure through effective logging, metrics, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerting, and automated anomaly detection.
• Drive major incident response, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and the systematic elimination of recurring production issues.
• Establish production health, availability, performance, and resiliency measures that provide actionable insight to engineering and business leadership.
• Promote team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, while establishing consistent validation standards and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• Apply knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized through automation.
• Shape the end-to-end AWS cloud architecture strategy across all product components ; Strengthen cloud cost strategy and optimization across the product.
• Advance the resiliency strategy, including multi-region, active-active, failover/failback, and disaster recovery.
• Evolve the automation and infrastructure-as-code strategy ; Mature AI integration across engineering and product workflows.
• Raise the bar on shared architectural standards and decision-making across teams ; Sharpen how complex technical strategy is distilled into leadership-facing narratives.

Skills

Software engineering cert

AWS architecture

Systems thinking

Cost & scalability

Hands-on prototyping

Executive communication

Live Site Management

SRE observability

Incident response leadership

Production readiness

AI-assisted development

Responsible AI use

Job description

JP Morgan Chase is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in Columbus to drive Live Site Management, cloud production practices, and AI-integrated engineering across the Deposits team within Consumer & Community Banking.

You will lead SRE practices, incident response, and production readiness, shaping end-to-end cloud architecture and cost optimization while maintaining secure, scalable systems.