Lead Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

About the role

JPMorganChase is hiring a Lead Software Engineer in Cloud Infrastructure within its Commercial and Investment Bank, Markets Technology team. You will join an agile team that builds and delivers trusted, secure, stable and scalable technology products, acting as a core technical contributor across several business functions.

Key responsibilities

• Align technical strategy with partner teams across the bank to deliver a complete experience for Athena Developers.
• Design, develop and troubleshoot software solutions, thinking beyond routine approaches.
• Partner with a global team of engineers to transform the Athena Core Platform into a resilient, scalable cloud-based architecture.
• Identify opportunities to automate remediation of recurring issues and improve operational stability.
• Lead communities of practice in Software Engineering to promote new technologies.
• Drive team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices (code review, refactoring, test acceleration, root cause analysis) and establish validation standards such as secure coding, peer review and automated testing.
• Apply knowledge of the SDLC toolchain, including AI-assisted development and automation.

Required profile

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience leading the use of approved AI-assisted development tools, setting team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity and secure handling of inputs and outputs; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption.

Required skills

• Working knowledge of load balancing and service orchestration, on-premises and in public cloud.
• Proficiency in one or more general-purpose languages such as Python or Java.
• Advanced understanding of agile methods such as CI/CD, application resiliency and security.
• Cloud-native and Kubernetes experience.
• In-depth knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform.
• Preferred: large-scale Kubernetes (AWS EKS) experience, hands-on Terraform, public cloud (ideally AWS) and DevOps experience.