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Senior Principal Software Engineer

The Senior Principal Software Engineer leads the strategy and development of complex technology portfolios while driving the adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering practices. They create reusable software frameworks and influence cross-functional teams to ensure secure, scalable, and high-quality product delivery.

Jersey City, New Jersey, United StatesonsiteFULL_TIME

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About the role

What will you do at JPMorganChase?

As a Senior Principal Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Chief

Technology Office, you provide deep engineering expertise and work across agile

teams to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products

in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Leverage your deep expertise to

consistently challenge the status quo, innovate for business impact, lead the

strategic development behind new and existing products and technology

portfolios, and remain at the forefront of industry trends, best practices, and

technological advances.

We’re looking for a tech leader ready to take their career to new heights. Join

the ranks of top talent at one of the world’s most influential companies.

Job responsibilities

* Advises and leads on the strategy and development of multiple products,

applications, and technologies across a portfolio

* Creates novel code solutions and drives the development of new production

code capabilities across teams and functions

* Sets strategy and operating standards for agentic AI-enabled engineering

across a portfolio (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work

environment) to drive measurable improvements in delivery speed, reliability,

and code quality (e.g., AI-orchestrated SDLC/TLM automation, release

readiness gating, incident triage/root-cause acceleration, and large-scale

refactoring/test modernization), while defining guardrails for validation,

security, resiliency, and reuse across teams and functions.

* Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle

toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and

automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at

scale.

* Translates highly complex technical issues, trends, and approaches to

leadership to drive the firm’s innovation and enable leaders to make

strategic, well-informed decisions about technology advancements

* Drives adoption and implementation of technical methods in specialized fields

in line with the latest product development methodologies

* Creates durable, reusable software frameworks that are leveraged across teams

and functions

* Influences across business, product, and technology teams and successfully

manages senior stakeholder relationships

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

* Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+

years applied experience

* Practical experience delivering system design, application development,

testing, and operational stability

* Expert in one or more programming language(s)

* Demonstrated experience designing and scaling agentic AI-enabled development

patterns (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment)

across teams/functions, including establishing governance for

human-in-the-loop validation, traceability/auditability, and secure handling

of sensitive inputs/outputs.

* Strong understanding of responsible AI use and control expectations at scale,

including security/resiliency implications, data sensitivity, and risk-based

governance; ability to advise senior leaders on safe adoption, reuse, and

measurable outcomes.

* Demonstrated prior experience with influencing across functions and teams and

delivering value at scale

* Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for

complex technology problems across various technical disciplines

* Extensive practical cloud native experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

* Experience operating in large, regulated, or complex enterprise technology

environments.

* Experience with identity and access management technologies, such as

authentication and federation, directory services, access governance,

privileged access, or secrets and certificate management.

* Experience with cloud platforms, platform engineering, internal developer

portals, API ecosystems, event-driven systems, and integration platforms.

* Experience with AI coding tools, intelligent automation, agentic development

workflows, or engineering-assistant capabilities.

* Experience defining engineering-practice scorecards, adoption metrics,

developer-experience measures, or productivity improvement programs.

* Recognized technical leadership through engineering communities, patents,

publications, open-source contributions, speaking engagements, or enterprise

engineering transformation.

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative

financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the

world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the

J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are

a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial

banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined

based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles

may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation,

paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of

individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and

programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include

comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a

retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health

support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total

compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

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

[https://careers.jpmorgan.com/us/en/how-we-hire/faqs] for more information about

requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including

Disability/Veterans

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.

Which skills does this role require?

Software engineeringSystem designApplication developmentAgentic AICloud nativeStrategic developmentSDLCStakeholder managementCode qualitySoftware EngineeringCloud NativeIAMTechnical StrategyAgileSecrets ManagementInternal Developer PortalsRelease ReadinessIncident TriageRefactoringTest ModernizationEnterprise ArchitectureFinancial TechnologyScalabilitySecurityResiliencyAuditabilityHuman-in-the-loop

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