Senior Lead Software Engineer - AI Engineer

JPMorgan Chase; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Plano, TX, is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer within the Consumer and Community Banking - Digital Technology team. The role focuses on building trusted, scalable tech products with advanced AI-enabled workflows and secure engineering practices.

You will drive architectural decisions, collaborate with product and engineering, and lead adoption of enterprise tools to improve delivery speed and quality.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Experience in system design, development, testing, and operations.
• Expert in at least one programming language.
• Experience leading adoption of agentic AI-enabled development practices.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use and governance.
• Practical cloud-native experience.

Responsibilities

• Creates complex and scalable coding frameworks using appropriate software design patterns.
• Develops secure, high-quality production code and reviews peer work.
• Defines enterprise-scale AI-enabled architecture and governance guardrails.
• Collaborates with product and engineering to outline roadmaps and solutions.
• Advises cross-functional teams on technical matters within domain expertise.
• Acts as go-to SME and influences senior stakeholders across teams.

Skills

Software engineering

System design

AI-enabled development

Cloud native

Education

Computer Science degree

Tools

AI tooling

Job description

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer and Community Banking - Digital Technology team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

• Creates complex and scalable coding frameworks using appropriate software design frameworks
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Architects and governs agentic AI-enabled engineering workflows (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) to improve delivery speed, code quality, and operational outcomes at scale (e.g., AI-driven PR review assistance, test generation/maintenance, release readiness checks, incident triage and root-cause acceleration), while defining guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, and reuse across teams
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale.
• Advises cross-functional teams on technological matters within your domain of expertise
• Serves as the function's go-to subject matter expert
• Contributes to the development of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies
• Creates durable, reusable software frameworks that are leveraged across teams and functions
• Influences leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology teams
• Help define enterprise-scale, target state, AI-enabled architecture for solutions in the Consumer & Community Banking division, to define best-in-class and next generation customer experiences
• Collaborate with product and engineering to define roadmaps and solution architectures towards target state

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Expert in one or more programming language(s)
• Demonstrated experience designing and leading adoption of agentic AI-enabled development practices (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) across teams, including setting standards for human‑in‑the‑loop validation, auditability/traceability of changes, and secure handling of sensitive data
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use and control expectations in engineering workflows, including security/resiliency implications, data sensitivity, and risk‑based governance; ability to influence senior technical leaders on safe scaling patterns and reuse
• Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex technology problems in one or more technical disciplines
• Understanding of the business
• Practical cloud native experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• Advanced knowledge of software architecture, applications, and technical processes with considerable in‑depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)