Sr. Lead Cybersecurity Architect - Product Security

As a Sr. Lead Cybersecurity Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Cybersecurity & Technology Controls Organization, you will work proactively with your technology and business colleagues to identify and quantify security issues within their business and empower them to take decisive risk decisions at speed and scale. You’re a security expert with a strong mix of technical and communication skills and are passionate about enabling safe and secure innovation. 

Job Responsibilities

• Cultivate security culture with your product technology and business colleagues. Products that have the right security culture will strive to prioritize sustainable controls and driving real risk reduction outcomes. Strong technical expertise in threat modelling, secure architecture design review, application security and cloud security principles. Embed the following security fundamentals such as threat modelling, solutions architecture, secure code review into agile product development by empowering technology teams to ship secure products faster that are secure from the start.


• Know your product across its breadth and depth.  Be fluent in your product’s strategy and roadmap as well as its key investment programs. Identify unfamiliar technology components, capabilities, and business concepts and be self-motivated to learn all about them, applying critical thinking to identify hidden issues along the way.  Be a subject matter expert in knowing the cyber risk posture of the entire Product. 


• Be your product’s security thought leader.  Learn from your product and cybersecurity teams and share best practice in both directions.  Be recognized in your product as the clear point of escalation and subject matter expert for IT Risk and Cyber domains. 


• Act with urgency managing emerging issues.  Proactively monitor Key Risk Indicators to ensure issues are identified, quantified, communicated, and managed in a timely manner, including recommendations for resolution and identifying the root cause/key themes. 


• Partner and influence across your product’s supply chain.  Work collaboratively with product, technology, and business colleagues on an on-going basis for business-as-usual audit and regulatory engagements, risk activities and project initiatives. Work closely with Third Party Oversight teams to ensure effective technology risk management of vendors engaged by technology partners, with a focus on Cloud computing / emerging technologies. Strong experience in working with Public Cloud Environments especially assisting in designing, building, and deploying secure and resilient products.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification in product security* concepts and 5+ years applied experience


• Able to communicate effectively and authoritatively with technical and non-technical stakeholders 


• Demonstrated success in influencing peers inside and outside your department.


• Demonstrated experience / understanding with product technologies including but not limited to: 


• Integrating security into SDLC process by enabling security testing in Continuous Integration and continuous delivery/deployment processes.


• Risk and controls working experience, specifically in application controls 


• Understanding of Public Cloud computing, especially how controls are applied to secure data, ensure resiliency and availability. 


• Ability to collaborate on, and/or lead, ad hoc teams for control architecture and design. APIs, micro-services oriented architectures. 


• Experience translating firm wide policy or regulatory requirements into control design and definition for Software Engineers and Solutions Architects 


• Thinks in terms of risks and outcomes, and able to translate those into actions required to achieve business and technology goals