Job Description

If you are looking for a game-changing career, working for one of the world's leading financial institutions, you've come to the right place.

As a Principal Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Finance Technology, you provide expertise and engineering excellence as an integral part of an agile team to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Leverage your advanced technical capabilities and collaborate with colleagues across the organisation to drive best-in-class outcomes across various technologies to support one or more of the firm's portfolios.

Job Responsibilities

Creates complex and scalable coding frameworks using appropriate software design frameworks
Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
Architects and governs agentic AI-enabled engineering workflows (using enterprise-authorised tools within the work environment) to improve delivery speed, code quality, and operational outcomes at scale (e.g., AI-driven PR review assistance, test generation/maintenance, release readiness checks, incident triage and root-cause acceleration), while defining guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, and reuse across teams.
Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorised AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realised by automation at scale.
Advises cross-functional teams on technological matters within domain of expertise
Serves as the function's go-to subject matter expert
Contributes to the development of technical methods in specialised fields in line with the latest product development methodologies
Creates durable, reusable software frameworks that are leveraged across teams and functions
Influences leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology teams

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience
Overall experience of 15+ years and currently working in the capacity of a hands-on Senior SME
Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
Advanced in Java, React JS and Spring Boot Framework
Experience in AWS ECS, EKS and Terraform
Demonstrated experience designing and leading adoption of agentic AI-enabled development practices (using enterprise-authorised tools within the work environment) across teams, including setting standards for human-in-the-loop validation, auditability/traceability of changes, and secure handling of sensitive data.
Strong understanding of responsible AI use and control expectations in engineering workflows, including security/resiliency implications, data sensitivity, and risk-based governance; ability to influence senior technical leaders on safe scaling patterns and reuse.
Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex technology problems in one or more technical disciplines
Ability to present and effectively communicate with Senior Leaders and Executives
Practical cloud native experience

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

Experience of Financial/Regulatory Reporting
Working experience on Databricks

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