Lead Software Engineer - Java, Public Cloud
J.P. Morgan
Software Engineering
Glasgow, UK
Join us to shape the future of identity and access management with your technical expertise and passion for innovation. You’ll collaborate with a global network of technologists, modernize authentication platforms, and integrate cutting-edge solutions. We offer opportunities for career growth, professional development, and the chance to make a meaningful impact. At JPMorganChase, your skills and ideas help us deliver technology that transforms financial services and changes the world.
Job Summary:
As a Lead Software Engineer in the Identity and Access Management team, you will drive a team of innovators and technologists to deliver secure, robust, and high-impact solutions. You will set strategic direction, solve complex problems, and inspire your team to embrace leading-edge technologies and methodologies. Your role will involve collaborating across global teams, harnessing diverse talents, and contributing to some of our most innovative engineering work.
Job Responsibilities:
- Lead and guide a small team to deliver high-quality, innovative solutions
- Modernize authentication and authorization platforms across channels and domains
- Evaluate and prototype internal and vendor solutions for user authentication
- Integrate anti-fraud and biometric authentication solutions into customer-facing applications
- Utilize APIs and SDKs for niche solutions and open standards
- Drive quality and efficiency throughout the software development lifecycle
- Set and model high technical standards for the team
- Collaborate with local and global teams to achieve common goals
- Develop meaningful relationships to support project success
- Solve complex and mission-critical problems
- Embrace and implement leading-edge technologies and methodologies
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Ability to lead and direct a small team
- Understanding of application and data architecture disciplines
- Knowledge of architecture, design, and business processes
- Proficiency in one or more general purpose programming languages; Java strongly preferred
- Cloud native experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Flexibility to work across disparate technology stacks and applications
- Experience with authentication practices and solutions (such as OAuth2/OpenID Connect, SAML, Facebook Login, Google Sign-In)
- Ability to work collaboratively in local and global teams
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills
- Commitment to delivering secure and robust solutions
- Passion for design, analytics, development, coding, and testing
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Experience integrating anti-fraud and biometric authentication solutions
- Familiarity with APIs and SDKs for open standards
- Experience evaluating and prototyping vendor solutions
- Knowledge of modern authentication practices
- Experience in financial services or large-scale enterprise environments
- Demonstrated ability to set high technical standards
- Interest in professional growth and career development
Why Join Us?
Our Corporate & Investment Bank relies on innovators like you to build and maintain technology that safely serves the world’s important corporations, governments, and institutions. You’ll help develop solutions for a bank entrusted with holding $18 trillion of assets and $393 billion in deposits, spanning over 100 countries. At JPMorganChase, you’re part of a global technology team of 40,000+ technologists, working in 14 technology hubs worldwide. We value diversity, encourage professional growth, and offer competitive benefits and compensation. If you’re ready to make a difference and build your career with us, apply today.
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.
J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.
Drive innovation and lead a team to build secure, next-generation identity and access management solution
