Senior Lead Software Engineer

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

7/1/2025

Job Description

If you are excited about shaping the future of technology and driving significant business impact in financial services, we are looking for people just like you.

Join our team and help us develop game-changing, high-quality solutions.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Chief Technology Office, you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for various software applications and platform products. You'll achieve significant business impact and help shape the target state architecture through your capabilities in multiple architecture domains. This is an opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll be a valued member of an agile team who design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products used by other technologists in the firm to observe their applications and platforms on the public cloud across multiple platforms. You are responsible for working across a range of modern technology solutions, writing code and integrating cloud technologies to create an observability platform that maximizes the resilience of applications across the firm.

Job Responsibilities

• Designs and delivers well engineered observability solutions for the public cloud will require the successful candidate to develop their knowledge of the major public cloud platforms, initially Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Leads the teach to build opinionated, pre-configured tools that can remove friction for other engineering teams
• Builds relationships with partner technology teams to deliver solutions across the JPMC technology stack
• Designs and develops software and troubleshoots with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
• Builds an understanding of the SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) mindset to help you design tools that meet the needs of this community. Understanding how to build it and run it is important.
• Ensures documentation supporting technical solutions provide high quality use self-help guides to minimise user and support tickets
  
  

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Formal training or certification on cloud computing concepts and proficient advanced experience
• Hands on experience of delivering solutions on AWS public cloud such as compute (e.g. ECS), networking, storage, security policies and how to build & deploy applications via Terraform into that eco-system
• Experience of developing Terraform solution for consumption by application teams delivering on public cloud
• A desire to focus on continuous learning and experience new technologies
• Hands-on practical experience in systems design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Experience of leading the design of a solution
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Demonstrate experience of working in an agile team using a methodology such as scrum.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Proficient in coding in one or more languages, preferably Java
• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts
• Areas of particular interest would be observability tooling: Datadog and Dynatrace as well as tooling such as CloudTrails, X-Ray and Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Enjoys presenting to other engineers on proposed designs and approaches
• Can demonstrate how to build secure applications, using tools to identify and remediate vulnerabilities and use modern techniques to control access to applications and APIs
  
  

About Us

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.

About The Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.