
Senior Lead Software Engineer - Python, Data, AIML, Cloud
at J.P. Morgan
Posted a month ago
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- City
- London
- Country
- United Kingdom
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Senior technical hands-on role within JPMorgan Chase's Markets Research Technology team to design and deliver cloud-native data, backend, and AI/ML engineering solutions at enterprise scale. Lead the design and implementation of data engineering, MLOps, and cloud infrastructure for production-grade, scalable systems while producing architecture and high-quality secure code. Collaborate with stakeholders and data scientists, mentor engineers, and contribute to engineering communities and best practices. Emphasis on Python development, system design, microservices, distributed systems, and modern data/cloud technologies.
Location: LONDON, United Kingdom
We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.
As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate and Investment Bank Markets Research Technology, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives. You will work on challenging Cloud-native data, backend engineering, and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning engineering, helping us industrialize AI/ML models at production enterprise scale. This role is a technical hands-on engineering role. Experience with data science/ML modeling is advantageous but not essential to this role
Job responsibilities
- Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
- Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
- Builds engineering stack required for Data and AIML products, including data engineering, backend engineering, Cloud infra DevOps and MLOps
- Designs and implements data engineering solutions, leveraging modern big data technologies
- Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
- Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Embraces a passion for learning, problem-solving, creative thinking and a can-do attitude.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years proficient applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Proficient in coding in one or more languages (Python preferably)
- Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
- Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Proven track record in system design, architecting and developing microservices, distributed systems and data-intensive applications
- Experience with Cloud services, Infrastructure as Code, containerized application development, big data and modern data engineering technologies
- Practical experience developing Production-scale Cloud-native data engineering solutions in commercial environments
- Familiarity with Cloud Data engineering services (e.g., ETL, Glue, S3, Athena, ECS, EKS) and MLOps stack
- Ability to convey design choices and results clearly and communicate effectively to stakeholders of various backgrounds
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience with data, AWS and AIML engineering in commercial settings, preferably in financial sector
- Experience working on recommendation systems, LLM applications or other AI/ML systems
- Practical experience with Kubernetes, EKS, Docker, MLOps
- Prior exposure to LLMs, RAG, Knowledge Graph Technologies, OpenSearch and vector databases
- Prior experience collaborating with data scientists





