Senior Lead Software Engineer - Charing Cross

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced Java and Typescript experience
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment, 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 and outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations
• Experience coaching senior engineers and leads on compliant usage patterns and controls
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience building UI and UX solutions with React
• Knowledge of Scala
• Knowledge of Domain Specific Language design and interpretation
• Knowledge of domain driven design
• Knowledge of SQL and No-SQL databases

Responsibilities:

• Lead the engineering of cutting-edge solutions in the areas of metadata, meta-modelling, and distributed systems
• Provide technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develop secure and high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others
• Drive adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes
• Establish measurable validation standards, including secure coding, peer review, automated testing, and reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC/TLM toolchain
• Apply 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
• 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 areas of focus
• Contribute to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle

Technologies:

• AI
• Cloud
• Support
• Java
• React
• SQL
• Scala
• Security
• TypeScript
• DDD
• UX UI Design

More:

We are partnering directly with JPMorganChase to hire for this Senior Lead Software Engineer role within our Data Platforms team in the Chief Data & Analytics Office. This is an agile, intellectually challenging role focused on building trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way across public cloud. Our work spans meta-programming, domain-specific languages, interpreter design, and full-stack delivery. We are a global leader in financial services, and our Commercial & Investment Bank serves clients in more than 100 countries with strategic advice, capital raising, risk management, and liquidity solutions. We value diversity and inclusion, support reasonable accommodations, and offer the opportunity to contribute to a first-class business in a first-class way.

last updated 35 week of 2026