Senior Lead Software Engineer - Go / Kubernetes / Python

Salary: £62,000 - 102,000 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
• Experience with Identity and Access Management platforms, role-based access control, or entitlement governance at scale
• Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages, frameworks, or platforms such as Go, Python, Java, Kubernetes or Terraform
• Practical cloud-native experience building and operating services on at least one public cloud provider, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as continuous integration and continuous delivery, application resiliency, and security
• Ability to evaluate technical solutions with a customer-focused mindset and understand how engineering decisions impact users and business outcomes
• Strong communication skills with the ability to adapt messages for technical and non-technical audiences
• Responsible use of approved artificial intelligence tooling, with critical judgement to validate quality, correctness, security, and performance
• Experience working in financial services or another highly regulated technology environment with formal audit and control posture
• Experience contributing to public cloud platform services, developer platforms, or shared engineering capabilities
• Familiarity with responsible artificial intelligence use in engineering workflows, including secure handling of inputs and outputs
• Experience improving developer experience, platform reliability, or operational efficiency at scale

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of platform services and infrastructure with an emphasis on architecture, integration patterns, and system reliability
• Develop, review, debug, and maintain secure, high-quality production code, applying engineering judgment to ensure it meets our standards regardless of whether it originates from you, a teammate, or an approved artificial intelligence tool
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability across applications and systems
• Lead design reviews and architecture discussions to evaluate solutions, strengthen technical quality, and support scalable delivery
• Partner with platform architecture, trust and authorization teams, and downstream IAM consumers to land coherent designs across organizational seams
• Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to increase awareness and adoption of new and leading-edge technologies
• Mentor and coach engineers through technical guidance
• Foster a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, respect, continuous improvement, and shared learning

Technologies:

• Azure
• Cloud
• IAM
• Support
• Java
• Kubernetes
• Marketing
• Python
• Security
• Terraform
• Web
• DevOps

More:

We are expanding our Public Cloud Engineering organization into the EMEA region by establishing a new Identity and Access Management (IAM) team to better serve our customers and strengthen collaboration across our global engineering teams. This is a unique opportunity to join at the ground level and help shape our new team, its technical direction, engineering culture, and operational excellence. Our team owns critical Identity domains that support our platform across multiple public cloud infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. We foster a culture of continuous improvement, growth, and talent development by investing in strong engineering practices, hands-on delivery, coaching, and cross-team collaboration. We believe great platforms are built by empowered teams that learn, innovate, and continuously raise the bar for technical excellence. J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, and our corporate functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing, supporting our businesses, clients, customers, and employees for success. We value diversity and inclusion and are an equal opportunity employer.

last updated 37 week of 2026