Lead Infrastructure Engineer- Network Planning

Are you ready to help build and evolve the infrastructure that powers global finance At JPMorgan Chase youll tackle complex challenges at scale with the support tooling and freedom to grow alongside top engineering talent.

As a Lead Infrastructure Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Network Services Infrastructure Platform team youwill beresponsible for the strategic evaluation of network technologies and topologies ensuring compliance with industry standards and organizational objectives. This role drives requirements for network planning tools develops performance metrics leads initiatives for improved performance and design optimization builds business cases for these initiatives supports audit risk and compliance activities and collaborates with regional carriers to adopt the best product solutions.

Job responsibilities

• Lead technology and topology strategyby evaluating emerging and established network technologies and recommending solutions aligned to business security and resiliency needs.
• Design and standardize target network topologies(LAN/WAN/DC/Cloud connectivity) that optimize performance scalability availability and operational supportability.
• Own requirements definition for network planning/management tools translating business outcomes and technical constraints into clear epics features and acceptance criteria.
• Partner with software engineering teamsto prioritize the tool roadmap validate delivered functionality and ensure fit-for-purpose planning workflows and UX for engineers.
• Define and implement network performance metrics and KPIs establishing measurement standards thresholds and reporting cadences across critical services and regions.
• Analyze performance and capacity datato identify trends bottlenecks and systemic issues; provide actionable insights and continuous improvement recommendations.
• Lead performance and design optimization initiatives embedding best practices and innovations to improve efficiency reliability and end-to-end service quality.
• Build and present business cases(cost/benefit risk reduction ROI and delivery approach) to secure funding and executive alignment for optimization programs.
• Ensure audit risk and compliance readinessby maintaining end-to-end documentation supporting control testing and regulatory expectations partnering with compliance and coordinating with regional carriers/service providers to align standards interoperability and service performance.
• Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate infrastructure analysis option evaluation and design documentation validating outputs and handling data according to sensitivity and security requirements.
• Applies reuse-first AI-assisted practices within delivery and automation routines to identify recurring issues and validate remediation options ensuring changes are traceable/auditable and aligned to resiliency and security expectations.

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on network planning and infrastructure engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience
• Deep understanding of network technologies topologies and transport protocols.
• Experience collaborating with regional carriers or service providers on network solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and influence engineering decisions across teams
• Experience in developing and implementing network performance metrics.
• Demonstrated ability to define requirements for software tools and collaborate with development teams.
• Proven track record of driving performance improvement and design optimization initiatives.
• Familiarity with audit risk and compliance processes and documentation.
• Strong analytical documentation and communication skills.
• Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to support infrastructure engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
• Ability to review and validate AI-assisted recommendations before implementation escalating when uncertain and ensuring outcomes align to resiliency security and auditability expectations.

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Experience with network automation and orchestration platforms.
• Familiarity with cloud and hybrid network architectures.
• Project management or requirements engineering certification is a plus