Senior Lead SRE- Data & AWS
Yesterday• London, United Kingdom
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Elevate your engineering prowess to unprecedented levels by joining a team of exceptionally gifted professionals and position yourself among the top echelon in site reliability.
As a Senior Lead Software Engineer - SRE at JPMorgan Chase within the AIML Data Platforms and Chief Data and Analytics Team, you will develop and deliver advanced technology products focused on data and analytics. Tackle complex cloud data platform challenges, especially around Datalakes Tools. In this role you will work in an agile environment, collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Job responsibilities
- Designs, implements, and maintains a managed AWS and Data platform, and provides engineering and operational support for the platform to SRE and app teams.
- Performs platform design, set-up and configuration, workspace administration, resource monitoring, providing engineering support to data engineering teams, Data Science/ML, and Application/integration teams.
- Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture.
- Drives continuous improvement in system observability, alerting, and capacity planning.
- Collaborates with engineering and data teams to optimize infrastructure and deployment processes, focusing on automation and operational excellence.
- Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
- Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
- Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, and respect.
- Implements Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of data platforms.
- Develops and maintains incident response procedures, including root cause analysis and postmortem documentation.
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Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience.
- Strong understanding of SRE principles, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident management.
- Experience with monitoring tools, automation frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Proficient in Python application program development with use of automated unit testing.
- Experience with terraform development and understanding of terraform enterprise.
- Experience in delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Knowledge of Big Data distributed compute frameworks like Spark, Glue, MapReduce etc.
- Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience in Data pipelines using Spark.
- Exposure to AWS & Databricks Platform administration.
- Knowledge of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration.
- Familiarity with distributed systems and large-scale data processing.
ABOUT US
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
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 for more information about requesting an accommodation.
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.
Client-provided location(s): London, United Kingdom, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Job ID: JPMorgan-210698118
Employment Type: FULL_TIME
Posted: 2026-02-18T19:06:29
Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
Parental Benefits
Work Flexibility
Office Life and Perks
Vacation and Time Off
Financial and Retirement
Professional Development
Diversity and Inclusion