At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and build cutting-edge AI platforms, ensuring reliability and operational excellence.
- Company: Join JPMorgan Chase, a global leader in financial services with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, diverse culture, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Mentorship opportunities and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.
- Why this job: Lead the future of AI and ML in a dynamic, impactful environment.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in software engineering, advanced Python skills, and Kubernetes experience required.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
We're looking for a hands-on platform engineer ready to take their career to new heights. As a Platform Engineer - Senior VP at JPMorgan Chase within the International Private Bank (IPB) Technology Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIML) Team, you will design and own the platform, tooling, and infrastructure that our agentic AI and machine learning products depend on. You will set the engineering standard for deployment, scalability, security, and reliability, and lead the practices that keep our services running.
Job responsibilities:
- Owns the design and build of the team's platform: deployment pipelines, model serving, containerisation, orchestration, and environment management.
- Sets the standard for reliability, observability, and operational excellence across the team's production AI/ML services.
- Builds the tooling and paved paths that let AI engineers ship agentic AI and ML products safely and quickly.
- Implements platform-level security, secrets management, and access controls to firm-wide standards.
- Partners with data and AI engineers to productionise models, and coordinates with external infrastructure functions to reduce operational dependency and risk.
- Leads capacity, cost, and performance management for the team's compute and inference workloads.
- Mentors platform and DevOps engineers and sets engineering standards through design and code review.
- Champions the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
- Advanced proficiency in Python and infrastructure-as-code, with modern software engineering practices.
- Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerisation, and cloud-native deployment patterns.
- Strong CI/CD experience and a track record of building deployment and release automation.
- Experience serving, scaling, and monitoring ML models or data-intensive services in production (MLOps).
- Practical experience with observability tooling (metrics, logging, tracing) and production incident response.
- Experience operating ML / LLM workloads in production (LLMOps, inference reliability, cost/performance management).
- Strong communication skills and the ability to set standards other engineers adopt.
- Industry-recognised container / Kubernetes certification (e.g., Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), or similar).
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent applied experience).
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience and familiarity with reliability practices (SLOs, error budgets).
- Experience within financial services technology.
- Familiarity with JPM-internal platform, cloud, and AI/ML infrastructure for internal candidates.
Sr Lead AI Platform Engineer employer: JP Morgan Chase
At J.P. Morgan, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, particularly within our Global Financial Crimes Compliance team in EMEA. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion fosters a collaborative work culture where employees are empowered to grow and develop their skills in a dynamic environment. With access to comprehensive training and the opportunity to engage with a wide range of financial services, you will find meaningful and rewarding career advancement in a company that values your contributions.
