Senior Lead AI & Cloud Platform Engineer

JPMorganChase; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Plano, TX is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to drive architecture, design end-to-end delivery, and mentor teams on secure, scalable platforms. You will work with data scientists and product teams on AI-enabled systems, implement IaC, and ensure reliability with SLOs and cost controls.

You will contribute to API/SDK development, collaborate on ML workflows, and raise the engineering bar through strong design reviews and operation excellence.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Demonstrated experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for distributed systems and platform services.
• Strong hands-on depth in Python, including building and maintaining APIs/SDKs; ability to lead design and perform high-quality code/design reviews.
• Demonstrated experience with enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development tools and practical team norms for validation and quality.
• Experience delivering platforms involving Generative AI with production-grade evaluation and monitoring practices.
• Practical experience with AWS, containerized platforms and Terraform (or equivalent IaC).
• Databricks experience is required, including building and operating data/ML workloads on Databricks.
• Knowledge of SDLC, agile delivery, CI/CD, and modern engineering quality controls.
• Strong communication skills with business-facing partners and technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a hands-on technical leader, contributing production code (Primarily Python) and owning end-to-end delivery from design through production operations.
• Leads system and platform architecture for components supporting end-to-end ML workflows, including data transformation, feature management, orchestration, and model serving.
• Designs and develops agentic AI capabilities that analyze workloads and generate optimization recommendations with production-ready monitoring.
• Builds and maintains reusable APIs/SDKs and reference implementations for consistent platform adoption.
• Partners with data scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to clarify requirements and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Ensures platform reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency through SLOs and incident response participation.
• Automates infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and CI/CD for platform services using IaC.
• Drives adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices and promotes reuse of patterns.
• Produces architecture and design artifacts aligned with enterprise standards and best practices.
• Mentors engineers through technical coaching, design reviews, and pairing.
• Contributes to engineering communities of practice and events exploring new technologies.

Skills

Python

APIs/SDKs

AI/Generative AI

AWS

Databricks

Terraform

CI/CD

LLM orchestration

Architectural design

Mentoring

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

Job description

JPMorganChase in Plano, TX is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to drive architecture, design end-to-end delivery, and mentor teams on secure, scalable platforms. You will work with data scientists and product teams on AI-enabled systems, implement IaC, and ensure reliability with SLOs and cost controls.

You will contribute to API/SDK development, collaborate on ML workflows, and raise the engineering bar through strong design reviews and operation excellence.