AI Sr Lead Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Columbus, OH +1 · Consumer & Community Banking

Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase focused on embedding AI-native capabilities, specifically agentic workflows and LLM-powered features, into core product experiences for the Small Business Lending Team. The role involves driving the technical strategy, leading multiple technology implementations, and managing stakeholders. A key aspect is driving the adoption and governance of AI-assisted engineering practices, including coding assistants and agentic systems, within production environments, while ensuring responsible AI use, security, and compliance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive the technical strategy and delivery of a Lending platform, embedding AI-native capabilities (agentic workflows, LLM-powered features) into core product experiences.
  2. Leads multiple technology implementations across departments to achieve firmwide technology objectives.
  3. 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.
  4. 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
  5. Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
  • Proven track record using AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.) to accelerate development cycles, and ability to coach teams to adopt these tools as standard practice.
  • Experience designing and deploying agentic systems (e.g., LLM-powered agents, multi-multi-step reasoning workflows, tool-using AI) in production environments.
  • Drives adoption of an AI-augmented engineering culture—setting standards, running experiments, and building team confidence as tooling and best practices evolve in real time.
  • Deep expertise in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for commercially used platforms web and/or mobile.
  • Deep expertise in building and operating large scale high performance digital applications (web and/or mobile) with distributed systems and cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
  • Deep expertise with enterprise design patterns and industry best practices with experience using modern technologies and design patterns (e.g., micro services, APIs, etc.)
  • Experience with building, leading and mentoring technology teams, and next level leaders within the organization.
  • Experience with implementing industry standard cybersecurity & technology controls.
  • 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

Nice to have

  • Experience leading engineering culture transformation initiatives, particularly driving adoption of AI tooling, new development workflows or technical practice changes across distributed teams.
  • Strong experience with Cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)

What the JD emphasized

  • embedding AI-native capabilities (agentic workflows, LLM-powered features) into core product experiences
  • Drive the technical strategy and delivery of a Lending platform
  • Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices
  • Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities
  • Proven track record using AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.) to accelerate development cycles
  • Experience designing and deploying agentic systems (e.g., LLM-powered agents, multi-step reasoning workflows, tool-using AI) in production environments
  • Drives adoption of an AI-augmented engineering culture
  • Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools
  • Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows

Other signals

  • embedding AI-native capabilities (agentic workflows, LLM-powered features) into core product experiences
  • Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices
  • Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities
  • Proven track record using AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.) to accelerate development cycles
  • Experience designing and deploying agentic systems (e.g., LLM-powered agents, multi-step reasoning workflows, tool-using AI) in production environments
  • Drives adoption of an AI-augmented engineering culture
  • Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools
  • Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows