Lead Software Engineer - Go / Python

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · GLASGOW, LANARKSHIRE, United Kingdom · Corporate Sector

Lead Software Engineer role focused on setting strategy and standards for agentic AI-enabled engineering within a financial services firm. The role involves driving improvements in delivery speed, reliability, and code quality using AI-orchestrated SDLC automation, while defining guardrails for validation, security, and reuse. Requires practical experience in designing and scaling these patterns, understanding responsible AI use, and advising senior leaders.

What you'd actually do

  1. Sets strategy and operating standards for agentic AI-enabled engineering across a portfolio (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) to drive measurable improvements in delivery speed, reliability, and code quality (e.g., AI-orchestrated SDLC/TLM automation, release readiness gating, incident triage/root-cause acceleration, and large-scale refactoring/test modernization), while defining guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, and reuse across teams and functions.
  2. 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.
  3. Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
  4. Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies

Skills

Required

  • Go
  • Python
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Software Development Life Cycle
  • CI/CD
  • Application Resiliency
  • Security
  • cloud native experience

Nice to have

  • React
  • Java
  • Infrastructure Architecture designs
  • AWS EKS
  • GCP GKE
  • Cloud Platforms
  • Oracle
  • MS SQL
  • Cockroach

What the JD emphasized

  • agentic AI-enabled engineering
  • agentic AI-enabled development patterns
  • responsible AI use
  • guardrails

Other signals

  • AI-enabled engineering
  • agentic AI-enabled development patterns
  • responsible AI use