Sr Lead Software Engineer - Artificial Intelligence
JPMorgan Chase · Plano, United States · 2mo ago
Build and operate the AI toolchain that is accelerating mainframe modernization at scale.
As an Sr Lead Software Engineer within Core Processing, Wealth Management Technology, you will design, build, and ship the agentic systems that ingest decades of mainframe logic and produce verified, production-ready modern services. You work directly alongside domain SMEs and the ED lead to turn legacy COBOL, JCL, DB2, and batch schedules into structured specifications — then drive those specs through agent-accelerated delivery into the target platform. You are a builder first: comfortable architecting multi-agent orchestration one day and debugging a prompt chain against production edge cases the next. You have deep proficiency extending and operating coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Copilot), and you bring the engineering rigor to make AI outputs reliable at enterprise scale. You thrive on hard problems, move fast, and care deeply about shipping software that works.
Job Responsibilities
- Builds and operates the spec generation pipeline — Implement artifact ingestion (COBOL source, JCL, job schedules, DB2 schemas, SME-captured knowledge), chunking strategies, and RAG pipelines that produce structured calculation and workflow specifications validated by domain experts.
- Develops agentic workflows for code translation and migration — Design, implement, and iterate on multi-agent systems that translate legacy logic into target-state code (Kotlin/JVM). Build orchestration layers, tool-use patterns, and guardrails that ensure output correctness for financial calculations.
- Builds evaluation and verification infrastructure — Create automated test harnesses that compare migrated calculation outputs against legacy results. Implement parity testing frameworks, regression suites, and confidence scoring to gate production cutover decisions.
- Contributes to the standard calculation runtime — Help build and extend the target platform that migrated calculations deploy into. Ensure the runtime supports deterministic, immutable, auditable execution.
- Partners with domain SMEs — Embed with mainframe subject-matter experts across Credit, Money Market & Mutual Funds, Statements & Tax, and IBOR to validate agent outputs, refine prompt strategies, and close knowledge gaps in specifications.
- Extends ETL and CDC pipelines for agent workflows — Build and integrate event sourcing, CDC (change data capture), and data pipelines that support end-to-end migrated workflows, including upstream/downstream dependency mapping.
- Operates AI systems in production — Own LLMOps for the toolchain: deployment, monitoring, cost management, latency optimization, token budget management, and incident response. Ensure reliability and compliance for 24/7 operation.
- Iterates rapidly and ships continuously — Work in tight build-measure-learn cycles. Prototype quickly, instrument everything, and make data-driven decisions about agent architectures, model selection, and prompt strategies.
Contributes to shared tooling and infrastructure — Build reusable libraries, evaluation harnesses, prompt templates, and orchestration patterns that scale AI capabilities across all four core processing domains.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- 5+ years of software engineering experience shipping production systems
- 2+ years of hands-on experience building LLM-based applications — agentic architectures, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, and evaluation frameworks
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: distributed systems, event-driven architectures, API design, testing practices, and cloud platforms (AWS/EKS/ECS)
- Expert proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) as core daily workflow
- Experience with at least one of: Kotlin/JVM(Java), Python, Rust in production environments
- Demonstrated ability to operate and debug complex systems
- Clear communicator who can articulate technical trade-offs to both engineers and business stakeholders
- Experience with code migration.
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- Experience with legacy systems, mainframe technologies (COBOL, JCL, DB2), or large-scale migration programs
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration (Temporal, Airflow) and event sourcing / CDC patterns
- Experience with Kafka, PostgreSQL, and container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS)
- Background in financial services, wealth management, brokerage, or capital markets processing
- Experience building code analysis, translation, or verification tooling
- Masters in Computer Science or equivalent experience