Principal Product Security Architect - Executive Director

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services leader in London seeks a Principal Product Security Architect to enhance product security. This role involves mentoring teams, advising on technology, and developing strategic cybersecurity roadmaps. Candidates should have hands-on experience in enterprise cybersecurity solutions and cloud technologies like GCP and AWS. Join a dynamic team that values leadership, innovation, and diversity.

Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise cybersecurity solutions and controls.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical leaders.
• Hands-on technical expertise within Product Security.

Responsibilities

• Mentor Product Security Architects and empower teams.
• Advises on technology selections for cybersecurity improvements.
• Develops multi-year cybersecurity roadmaps.

Skills

Hands-on cybersecurity experience

Advanced cybersecurity architecture knowledge

Effective communication with leaders

Influencing peers

Technical leadership

Tools

GCP

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Overview

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Take your cybersecurity expertise to new heights by joining a team of exceptionally talented professionals and solidify your place among top performers in the industry. This is an excellent opportunity to join a world class Cybersecurity organization. As a Principal Product Security Architect in the Cybersecurity & Technology Controls (CTC) team for the International Consumer, 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 are a security expert with a strong mix of technical and communication skills and are passionate about enabling safe and secure innovation. You will work with some of the best and brightest cybersecurity and technology engineers to solve complex problems which will both challenge you and help you develop your skills in one of the most innovative and respected companies in the world.

Play a vital role in shaping the future of an iconic company and make a direct impact in a dynamic environment designed for top achievers.

As a Principal Cybersecurity Architect at JPMorganChase within the International Consumer Business you provide technical leadership to enhance and develop architecture platforms based on modern cloud-based technologies as well as support the adoption of strategic global solutions. Leverage your advanced architecture capabilities to identify, communicate, and mitigate risk, and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes.

Core Product Security 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. Embed threat modelling, security design & architecture reviews into product and application teams so they adopt our control products and create products 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 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.

Job responsibilities

• Inspires, Empowers and Mentors Product Security Architects in this technical people leadership role
• Advises cross-functional teams on technology selections and decisions to achieve target state cybersecurity on improvements to current cybersecurity parameters
• Develops multi-year roadmaps aligned with business and architecture strategy and priorities
• Serves as the function's go-to subject matter expert and drives thought leadership within the product line
• Contributes to the development of technical methods in cybersecurity in line with the latest product development methodologies
• Participates in the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Hands-on practical experience delivering enterprise level cybersecurity solutions and controls via Threat Modeling and Security Design & Architecture Reviews
• Advanced knowledge of cybersecurity architecture, applications, and technical processes with considerable, in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., public cloud (GCP & AWS), artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex architecture problems in one or more technical disciplines
• Ability to communicate effectively and authoritatively with technical and non-technical senior leaders and executives
• Understanding of the business and knowledgeable of latest risk trends in the internal and external environments
• Demonstrated success in influencing peers inside and outside your department
• Technical people leadership experience within a product security team in the financial services/FinTech sector
• Demonstrated, hands-on technical expertise within Product Security including but not limited to:
  • Deploying products using Cloud and containers technology (e.g. GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker)
  • Securing APIs and micro-services
  • Securing Software as a Service (SaaS) tools and managing their security baseline posture
  • Software Supply Chain Security
• Proven experience of upskilling and learning modern technologies
• Technical people leadership experience within a product security team in financial services consumer businesses or Fintech Organizations (i.e., Mortgages, Cards or Digital)

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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 our FAQs 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.