Lead Security Engineer - Full Stack Developer - React / Java

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services leader located in London seeks a Lead Security Engineer with expertise in delivering secure software solutions. The ideal candidate will design, code, and test applications using Java and React, resolve production issues, and ensure a secure, agile development process. Key qualifications include strong coding skills, database experience, and a background in security engineering. This full-time role emphasizes collaboration in a diverse team environment, making an impactful contribution to software security.

Qualifications

• Solid application design, coding, testing, maintenance and debugging skills required.
• Advanced knowledge of architecture, design and business processes.
• Experience with threat modeling, discovery, vulnerability, and penetration testing.

Responsibilities

• Execute creative security solutions, design, development, and troubleshooting.
• Develop secure and high-quality production code.
• Minimize security vulnerabilities by following industry insights.

Skills

Solid application design, coding, testing

Database experience (RDBMS or NoSQL)

Proficient in Software Development Life Cycle

Advanced knowledge of security protocols

Education

Formal training or certification on security engineering concepts

Tools

Spring

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Lead Security Engineer - Full Stack Developer - React / Java

LONDON, United Kingdom

Job Information

• Job Identification 210601451
• Job Category Security Engineering
• Business Unit Corporate Sector
• Posting Date 03/07/2025, 03:18 PM
• Locations LONDON, United Kingdom
• Job Schedule Full time

Job Description

Take on a crucial role where you'll be a key part of a high-performing team delivering secure software solutions. Make a real impact as you help shape the future of software security at one of the world's largest and most influential companies.

As a Lead Security Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Cybersecurity and Technology Controls line of business, you are an integral part of team that works to deliver software solutions that satisfy pre-defined functional and user requirements with the added dimension of preventing misuse, circumvention, and malicious behavior.As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions with tamper-proof, audit defensible methods across multiple technical areas within various business functions.

Design, code and test application programming using Java/J2ee, AngularJS/React, Spring/Spring Boot in AWS. Create high quality software products for JPMorgan Cyber Defense & Fraud line of business. Oversee end to end software development within agile frameworks. Design and develop scalable applications for cloud. Resolve high impact production issues and ensure smooth flow of business applications.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative security solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions and break down technical problems
• Develops secure and high-quality production code and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Minimizes security vulnerabilities by following industry insights and governmental regulations to continuously evolve security protocols, including creating processes to determine the effectiveness of current controls
• Works with stakeholders and business leaders to understand security needs and recommend business modifications during periods of vulnerability
• Conducts discovery,vulnerability, penetration testing,and threat scenarios onmultiple organizational assets to identifyand assess if vulnerabilities arepresent, and executes threat modeling for multiple applications including external applications interacting with the internal JPMorgan Chase network
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on security engineeringconcepts
• Solid application design, coding, testing, maintenance and debugging skills
• Working experience on Spring JDBC, Spring Hibernate ORM and designing/developing applications with RESTful Web Services
• Database experience (RDBMS or NoSQL) required
• Advanced knowledge of architecture, design and business processes and excellent communication skills
• Skilled in planning, designing,and implementing enterpriselevel security solutions
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Experience with threat modeling, discovery, vulnerability, and penetration testing
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in architecture and design of microservices and experience in cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure
• Experience with messaging (JMS/MQ/Kafka) based integration and microservices is a plus
• Unit Testing, Mocking, Performance Testing (e.g. Junit, Mokito, Blazemeter)
• Jenkins/Bamboo or any CI/CD knowledge
• Knowledge of Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of Maven, Repository Management (Git)

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
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 ourFAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About the Team

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.