Application Lead Security Engineer - Greenfield Project

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Application Lead Security Engineer to join their innovative team in London. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on a greenfield project within a global banking platform, focusing on enhancing security measures and delivering top-notch technology solutions. You will be instrumental in implementing security strategies, conducting vulnerability assessments, and collaborating with development teams to ensure robust application security. If you are passionate about security engineering and eager to contribute to cutting-edge fintech solutions, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in security engineering with applied knowledge.
• Expertise in programming languages like Python, Go, or Java.

Responsibilities

• Drive product security improvements through collaboration.
• Perform design reviews and threat modelling of services.

Skills

Security engineering concepts

Python

Go

Java

DevOps security

Web application penetration testing

Security tooling

Distributed systems security

Cloud technologies

Threat modelling

Education

Formal training in security engineering

Professional security qualifications

Tools

Burp proxy

Web/Network Scanners

Static code analysers

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

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Posted:

29.04.2025

Expiry Date:

13.06.2025

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Job Description:

Be an integral part of a team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As an Application Security Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Global Banking Platform, you will be a key member of our team. Your role will involve delivering software solutions that meet pre-defined functional and user requirements, with an added focus on preventing misuse, circumvention, and malicious behaviour. You will be responsible for implementing critical technology solutions with tamper-proof, audit defensible methods across multiple technical areas within various business functions, all in support of the firm's business objectives.

We are building the next generation core banking platform that will operate at a global scale and will support hundreds of millions of accounts. We use cloud native technologies, and the work involves the development of micro-services, integrations, dashboards, production support tools and CI/CD pipelines.

Initially, successful candidates for the role will be seconded to a FinTech software partner. This is an exciting opportunity to experience the day to day of a fintech while being fully backed by JPMC. After the conclusion of the secondment, all secondees will return to JPMC and apply the knowledge, technologies and practices acquired and develop the critical services to support GBP’s worldwide journey to the cloud.

Job Responsibilities

1. Drive improvements to product security posture through strategic planning and collaboration with both development and infrastructure teams, with trust, autonomy and influence.
2. Produce production web scale grade application security design.
3. Review and produce data privacy and financial regulatory functional and nonfunctional designs.
4. Perform design reviews and Threat Modelling of services and products.
5. Perform vulnerability assessments and security testing.
6. Providing subject matter expertise on all areas of security and privacy throughout the Software Development lifecycle.
7. Liaison with development teams for design, code reviews & education.
8. Contribute to security strategy, security tooling selection and creation.
9. Conduct regular security assessments and code reviews.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on security engineering concepts and applied experience
• Expertise with a programming language (. Python, Go or Java)
• Experience of security in a DevOps environment
• Experience in web application penetration testing and security tooling (. Burp proxy, Web/Network Scanners, Static code analysers, etc).
• Coding experience for automating/integrating security tools and creation of security tools.
• Knowledge of security in distributed systems at scale.
• Cloud and containers technology knowledge (. AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker)
• Experience of performing security design reviews, threat modelling and risk assessments
• Knowledge of application security issues

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Professional security qualifications are desirable
• Contributions to the security community (public research, blogging, presentations, etc)
• Awareness and experience of the Data Protection Act, ISO 27001 and PCI-DSS