Principal Software Engineer - Executive Director

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

Principal Software Engineer to lead the design and build of platforms and shared services focused on security, compliance, and governance in an AI-enabled environment. The role involves architecting governance-by-design patterns, creating standards and tooling, integrating AI capabilities for identity constructs, and driving engineering excellence. Key responsibilities include coaching engineers, partnering with identity architects and risk teams, and governing agentic AI-enabled engineering workflows to improve delivery speed and quality, while ensuring guardrails for validation and security.

What you'd actually do

  1. Architect and build governance-by-design patterns and libraries that embed policy controls, approvals, and evidence collection
  2. Create standards and tooling (CLI, SDKs, libraries, templates, automated checks) that make it easy to adopt and evidence compliant identity solutions across diverse platforms and services
  3. Partner with platform owners to ensure that continuous compliance reporting is embedded in the systems we build and consume
  4. Integrate AI capabilities so that our standard patterns include agent-ready identity constructs and can leverage AI where useful for reporting and review
  5. Drive engineering excellence through design reviews, reference architectures, coding standards, performance benchmarking, and reliability engineering practices as part of existing governance processes

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and expert applied experience
  • Professional software engineering experience with ownership of complex, production-grade systems in large enterprise environments
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, C++, Go, or Scala
  • Experience using AI assistants in software engineering including agentic capabilities
  • Experience developing engineering practices across teams, including identity and security engineering patterns and standards
  • Understanding of responsible AI use and control expectations in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, resiliency/security implications, and governance
  • Experience influencing leaders and engineers across large organizations to drive pattern adoption and reuse
  • Experience designing and operating distributed systems or internal platforms used by multiple teams
  • Strong technical communication and stakeholder management skills
  • 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

Nice to have

  • Experience delivering systems with auditability, traceability, and compliance requirements in regulated environments
  • Ability to influence architecture decisions and collaborate effectively across teams

What the JD emphasized

  • governance requirements
  • AI-enabled environment
  • identity and security requirements
  • agentic AI-enabled engineering workflows
  • responsible AI use and control expectations
  • agentic AI-enabled development practices
  • responsible AI use and control expectations

Other signals

  • AI-enabled environment
  • Integrate AI capabilities
  • agentic AI-enabled engineering workflows
  • AI-assisted development