Lead Software Engineer - Python, Data, Cloud, AIML

JPMorgan Chase
London, United Kingdom
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior software engineers with Cloud and data engineering experience who can lead AI-assisted engineering practices and collaborate with data scientists in the financial domain in London.

Best fit for

  • Senior software engineers with Cloud-native data engineering and AI-assisted development leadership experience
    — “This role is a technical hands-on Engineering role”
  • Candidates with a background in large corporate environments and distributed systems
    — “Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment”
  • Professionals who have driven AI-assisted engineering practices and set validation standards
    — “Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams”

Things to consider

  • Commitment to secure coding and compliance with AI/ML model governance is essential
    — “Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows”
  • Experience with MLOps and production-scale AI/ML systems is a key advantage
    — “Helping us industrialize AI/ML models at Production scale”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with AI-assisted code review and test acceleration in your resume and interviews
    — “Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices”
  • Emphasize your track record in building microservices and distributed systems
    — “Proven track record in system design, architecting and developing microservices”
  • Showcase your knowledge of Cloud data engineering services like ETL, S3, and Athena
    — “Familiarity with Cloud Data engineering services (e.g., ETL, Glue, S3, Athena)”
  • Demonstrate your ability to convey technical design choices to non-technical stakeholders
    — “Ability to convey design choices and results clearly and communicate effectively to stakeholders”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • Design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products
  • Industrialize AI/ML models at Production scale
  • Build engineering stack required for Data and AIML products
Typical background
Formal training or certification on software engineering conceptsHands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

Skills & requirements

Required

PythonCloud-native Data EngineeringAIML EngineeringMlopsBackend Engineering

Preferred

Data ScienceML Modeling

Stack & domain

PythonAIMLCloud Infra DevopsMlopsData EngineeringBackend EngineeringProblem-solvingCreative ThinkingFinanceData ScienceCloud Computing

About the role

Original posting from JPMorgan Chase

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank's Markets Research Technology team, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives. You will work on challenging Cloud-native data, backend engineering and AIML engineering, helping us industrialize AI/ML models at Production scale. This role is a technical hands-on Engineering role. Experience with data science/ML modeling is advantageous but not essential to this role.

Job responsibilities 

Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems

Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test acceleration, release readiness, incident/root-cause analysis), while establishing measurable validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC/TLM toolchain.

Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale.

Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems

Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development

Builds engineering stack required for Data and AIML products, including data engineering, backend engineering, Cloud infra DevOps and MLOps

Designs and implements data engineering solutions, leveraging modern big data technologies   

Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies

Embraces a passion for learning, problem-solving, creative thinking and a can-do attitude.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient applied experience

Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

Proficient in coding in one or more languages- Python

Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages

Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) 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 considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching senior engineers/leads on compliant usage patterns and controls.

Proven track record in system design, architecting and developing microservices, distributed systems and data-intensive applications

Experience with Cloud services, Infrastructure as Code, containerized application development, big data and modern data engineering technologies        

Practical experience developing Production-scale Cloud-native data engineering solutions in commercial environments   

Familiarity with Cloud Data engineering services (e.g., ETL, Glue, S3, Athena) and MLOps stack   

Ability to convey design choices and results clearly and communicate effectively to stakeholders of various backgrounds and Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle

 Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Experience with data, AWS and AIML engineering in commercial settings, preferably in financial sector

Experience working on LLM applications or other AI/ML systems 

Practical experience with Kubernetes, EKS, Docker, MLOps

Prior exposure to LLMs, RAG, Knowledge Graph Technologies, OpenSearch and vector databases  

Prior experience collaborating with data scientists

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.

Source: JPMorgan Chase careers

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