Lead Software Engineer Python GenAI

Lead Software Engineer Python GenAI

Wilmington, DE, United States

and 2 more

Job Information

• Job Identification 210804083

• Job Category Software Engineering

• Business Unit Corporate Sector

• Posting Date 10/27/2026, 12:35 PM

• Locations 880 Powder Mill Rd, Wilmington, DE, 19803, US8181 Communications Pkwy Bldg F, Plano, TX, 75024, US600 Travis St, Houston, TX, 77002, US

• Job Schedule Full time

Job Description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As an Lead Software Engineer Python GenAI at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Sector's Model Delivery and Platform Engineering team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Designs, codes, tests, and delivers automation (including LLMs/agents) to eliminate manual operational work and streamline AO workstreams’ remediations (e.g., control items, security vulnerabilities, upgrades, and FARM findings).

• Governs application risk, controls, and compliance: owns adherence to firm standards, partners with Technology Risk & Controls, manages Technology Lifecycle Management (TLM), and drives closure of issues/findings (e.g., FARM) through effective remediation and evidence management.

• Owns security and data accountability for the application: ensures strong authentication/authorization, vulnerability and certificate hygiene, and proper data registration/classification plus compliant storage, retention, and disposal.

• Coordinates across product and engineering at scale to prioritize and drive execution with a clear sense of urgency for AO workstreams, including influencing/coaching teams and aligning execution across large developer communities.

• Runs resilient, well-operated production services end-to-end: implements monitoring/logging and anomaly detection, maintains secure network configurations/least privilege, and leads/supports incident, problem, and change management and recovery/resiliency readiness.

• Demonstrates and champions site reliability culture and practices and exerts technical influence throughout the team.

• Leads initiatives to improve the reliability and stability of applications and platforms using data-driven analytics to improve service levels.

• Collaborates with team members to identify comprehensive service level indicators and stakeholders to establish reasonable service level objectives and error budgets with customers.

• Documents and shares knowledge within the organization via internal forums and communities of practice.

• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.

• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.

• Advanced development experience in Java or Python, with excellent debugging/troubleshooting skills for complex production issues.

• Hands-on experience with AWS/other clouds and container platforms/orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, ECS).

• Experience building scalable data processing and Big Data/ETL pipelines (e.g., Hortonworks, AWS-based solutions).

• Working knowledge of core infrastructure (routers, load balancers, compute, storage, networks, cloud products) and ability to troubleshoot common networking technologies/issues.

• Deep proficiency in reliability, scalability, performance, security, enterprise architecture, and toil reduction, with the ability to implement SRE practices in applications/platforms.

• Proficiency in white/black box monitoring, SLO alerting, and telemetry collection using tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, etc.

• Ability to learn/evaluate new technologies, teach languages to others, and collaborate across levels and stakeholder groups.

• Strong foundations in software applications/processes, with emerging depth in a discipline, and the ability to solve complex data structures/algorithms problems.

• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (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 engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Current AWS credential (e.g., Cloud Practitioner, Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, or Developer) demonstrating working knowledge of core AWS services, cloud architecture patterns, security and identity fundamentals (IAM), networking basics (VPC), monitoring/logging, and cost-awareness best practices.

• Recognized automation/DevOps credential (e.g., Kubernetes/containers, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, or site reliability).

About Us

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.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs (https://careers.jpmorgan.com/us/en/how-we-hire/faqs) for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

About the Team

Our professionals in our 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.