Sr. Lead Software Engineer
About The Position
As a Sr. Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within Trust and Security, you will help an agile team enhance, build, and deliver secure, stable, scalable technology products. The role applies deep technical expertise to complex challenges across multiple technologies and applications, with significant business impact. You will serve as a subject matter expert, influence product and architecture decisions, and champion engineering excellence. The position provides technical direction across complex initiatives and supports the adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices. It also focuses on establishing validation standards for secure coding, peer review, and automated testing, and on promoting reusable patterns and automation across the software development lifecycle.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and at least 5 years of applied experience.
- Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability across large-scale environments.
- Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages.
- Experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools, including setting team expectations for validating outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, secure handling of inputs and outputs, and resiliency and security expectations.
- Experience coaching senior engineers and leads on compliant AI usage patterns and controls within the software development lifecycle.
- Ability to independently address design and functionality problems with little to no oversight.
- Practical cloud-native experience delivering production workloads at scale.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in security or trust platform domains, including identity, access management, or cryptographic services.
- Familiarity with zero-trust architecture principles and their application in enterprise engineering environments.
- Experience contributing to or leading firmwide engineering standards, frameworks, or communities of practice.
- Exposure to regulated industry environments with strong controls, audit requirements, and compliance-driven engineering practices.
- Experience with observability tooling, platform reliability engineering, or site reliability practices in distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical guidance and direction to support the business and engineering teams, contractors, and vendors across complex, multi-technology initiatives.
- Develop secure, high-quality production code and rigorously review and debug code written by others.
- Drive adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, including code review, refactoring, test acceleration, release readiness, and incident root-cause analysis.
- Establish measurable validation standards for secure coding, peer review, and automated testing, and promote reuse of proven patterns and automation within the software development lifecycle toolchain.
- Use software development lifecycle toolchain capabilities, including approved AI-assisted development and automation tools, to improve the value realized from automation at scale.
- Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
- Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more focus areas, providing mentorship and technical leadership to engineers across the team.
- Contribute to the engineering community by advocating firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices across the software development lifecycle.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package, including base salary determined by role, experience, skill set, and location.
- Eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation in cash and/or forfeitable equity.
- Comprehensive health care coverage.
- On-site health and wellness centers.
- Retirement savings plan.
- Backup childcare.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Mental health support.
- Financial coaching.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
