Sr Lead Software Engineer

Salary: £62,000 - 102,000 per year

Requirements:

• Formal training or certification in software engineering, backed by strong hands-on delivery experience.
• Excellent coding ability with well-reasoned, clearly held views on quality and testing.
• Demonstrated ownership of the SDLC, including CI/CD automation and local development tooling.
• Practical cloud-native experience building and operating services on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Solid understanding of application resiliency and security.
• Expertise in at least one programming language, with the ability and willingness to learn additional stacks such as Java, Go, Python, Terraform, or Kubernetes as needed.
• Confidence using and critically evaluating agentic AI development tools, applying judgment on correctness, quality, security, and performance.
• Leadership experience with accountability for delivery, technical direction, and coaching and mentoring.
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences, including active listening and empathetic leadership.
• Clear understanding of the business value behind technical decisions and the habit of applying that lens throughout delivery.
• Strong hands-on experience in Java, Go, and/or Python.
• Experience with Specification Driven Development and/or Behavior Driven Development.
• Hands-on experience with agentic development methodologies and tooling.
• DevOps experience across the delivery pipeline.
• Background in financial services or another heavily regulated environment.
• AWS, Azure, or GCP professional certification, or equivalent experience.
• Track record of coaching engineers or shaping technical practices across multiple teams beyond a single team.
• Experience contributing to developer platforms, shared engineering capabilities, or internal platform tooling.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement platform services and infrastructure across public cloud environments, focusing on architecture, integration patterns, and system reliability.
• Own the full Software Development Lifecycle, including automating CI/CD pipelines and local development environments.
• Write, review, debug, and maintain secure, high-quality production code, including AI-generated code.
• Lead design reviews and architecture discussions to improve technical quality and drive better solutions.
• Collaborate with partner teams to evaluate, adopt, and scale tooling and methodologies, including agentic AI development practices, that improve developer experience and platform quality.
• Drive operational excellence by identifying recurring issues and resolving them through automation.
• Provide leadership and accountability for delivery outcomes, technical direction, and day-to-day execution.
• Coach and mentor engineers, raising the bar on code quality, testing discipline, and engineering standards.
• Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences, articulating the business value behind technical decisions.
• Influence and improve engineering culture and practices across the teams we support.

Technologies:

• Agentic AI
• AI
• AWS
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• GCP
• Support
• Java
• Kubernetes
• Marketing
• Python
• Security
• Terraform
• TDD

More:

We are Cloud Engineering Acceleration (Team XLR8), and we accelerate delivery by solving high-impact problems where the need is greatest to deliver public cloud solutions reliably and securely for one of the worlds largest banks. We partner closely with platform teams and are trusted to tackle the hardest problems first because of our consistent delivery and strong commitment to quality. We work across a variety of tech stacks and domains while maintaining consistent engineering standards, practicing iterative development, Pair Programming, Test Driven Development, and Specification by Example. We actively build engineering culture wherever we engage, and we invest in every engineer through dedicated learning time and a collaborative environment where knowledge-sharing is expected in both directions. We are part of J.P. Morgan, a global leader in financial services, and we value diversity, inclusion, and reasonable accommodations. Our Corporate Functions teams span areas including finance, risk, human resources, and marketing, helping set our businesses, clients, customers, and employees up for success.

last updated 34 week of 2026