Senior Lead Software Engineer

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

Senior Lead Software Engineer role focused on enhancing, building, and delivering technology products within a financial services platform. The role emphasizes driving adoption and governance of AI-assisted engineering practices, applying deep technical expertise, and leading teams in secure, stable, and scalable development using technologies like Java and AWS. The engineer will also leverage AI agents for code quality and delivery timelines, with a strong focus on responsible AI use and validation of AI outputs.

What you'd actually do

  1. Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
  2. Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
  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. Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
  • Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
  • 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.
  • Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
  • Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
  • Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
  • 8+ years engineering experience developing and deploying Java based applications in AWS, ECS, EKS, and Postgres
  • Experience in building dashboards using Splunk, Dynatrace or Graffana
  • Experience with multi region services deployments

Nice to have

  • Experience with multi region service deployments and zero downtime deployment

What the JD emphasized

  • 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.