Sr Lead Software Engineer - AWS - Lead AI/ML Platform Engineer

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About the role

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products. As a Senior Lead Software Engineer within the Firmwide AI/ML Deployment Platform team, you are part of a globally distributed team spanning Glasgow, London, New Jersey, and India. You will architect, build, and own the infrastructure that makes model deployment work at scale. The role offers significant autonomy: owning technical direction, engaging directly with US-based clients, and making architectural decisions with real production consequences. The platform is always evolving—new regions, new failure modes, new scale requirements. If you like owning problems end-to-end, making hard tradeoffs, and shipping systems that other engineers build on top of, you'll fit in.

Responsibilities

• Drive architectural vision for platform components: control plane integration, multi-region deployment, and disaster recovery
• Design and implement APIs for retraining, scheduling, endpoint deployment, and autoscaling
• Build infrastructure for seamless integration across control plane and client accounts
• Engage directly with US-based clients—requirements, strategic solutioning, and debugging
• Make independent architectural decisions and own technical tradeoffs with minimal oversight
• Provide technical guidance and direction to support the business, its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Drive adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test acceleration, release readiness, incident/root-cause analysis)
• Establish measurable validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promote 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 value realized by automation at scale

Requirements

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Proficiency in architecting software solutions at scale—you've designed systems that other teams depend on
• Self-directed and autonomous: you drive to outcomes without waiting for direction
• Strong client-facing communication skills, effective across time zones in a distributed team
• Deep knowledge of AWS and cloud-based infrastructure
• Track record building resilient, production-grade platform
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) 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/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching senior engineers/leads on compliant usage patterns and controls

Preferred Qualifications

• Comfort with ambiguity and greenfield architecture where no existing playbook applies
• Production experience with Kubernetes / EKS at scale
• Hands-on experience with AWS Sagemaker for model training and deployment
• Strong Golang skills in the context of infrastructure or platform services
• Deep understanding of networking—VPCs, DNS, cross-account connectivity
• Practical experience with LLMs—deployment, inference, or integration
• Track record delivering Terraform across multi-account, multi-region environments

About J.P. Morgan

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses, and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional, and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years, and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location
• Commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation for eligible roles, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity
• Comprehensive health care coverage
• On-site health and wellness centers
• Retirement savings plan
• Backup childcare
• Tuition reimbursement
• Mental health support
• Financial coaching

About the team

Our professionals in Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers, and employees up for success.