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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