Drimva

JPMorgan Chase

Sr Lead Software Engineer - Engineering Excellence

Columbus, OH · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026

Experience
5+ years of applied experience.
Education
Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts.

About the job

Leads engineering practices across teams to improve application security and health, modernize software, and govern AI-assisted development.

What you'll do

  • Drive adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices, including validation standards and reusable SDLC patterns.
  • Lead application-health and technical-lifecycle work, including vulnerability remediation, dependency hygiene, and modernization.
  • Partner with architecture and security teams, improve engineering standards and automation, and mentor engineers.

What they ask for

  • Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
  • Secure production-application experience, including vulnerability management, dependency hygiene, and technical debt reduction.
  • Hands-on technical lifecycle management and experience leading enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development tools, including setting output-validation expectations.
  • Proficiency in CI/CD automation, automated testing, secure coding, and peer review; strong communication and cross-functional influence.

Nice to have

  • Experience with agentic AI coding platforms such as Claude or GitHub Copilot, or application-health, static-analysis, or software-composition-analysis tools.
  • Experience defining engineering standards or developer-experience initiatives; exposure to cloud-native development or infrastructure as code.

Tools

Claude, GitHub Copilot, Software Development Life Cycle, SDLC/TLM, CI/CD

AI focus

Governs responsible use of AI-assisted and agentic engineering tools for coding, code review, refactoring, testing, troubleshooting, release readiness, and incident/root-cause analysis, with human validation and secure handling of sensitive data.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)