Senior Lead Cybersecurity Architect - Chase UK

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

Job summary

A leading global financial services company is seeking a Senior Lead Cybersecurity Architect in London, UK. This role involves collaborating with technology and business teams to enhance security culture and ensure the safety of products. Candidates should possess substantial cloud computing knowledge and strong communication skills to engage effectively with diverse stakeholders. The position offers the chance to impact cybersecurity strategies within a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Public Cloud concepts.
• Experience translating policies into control designs.
• Ability to communicate with non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Cultivate a security culture within product teams.
• Act as a security thought leader for products.
• Proactively monitor Key Risk Indicators.
• Collaborate with product and tech teams on audits.

Skills

Public Cloud computing knowledge

Kubernetes & micro-service architectures

Open authentication and authorization standards

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Ability to explain complex concepts simply

Education

Formal training or certification in Public Cloud computing

Job description

Senior Lead Cybersecurity Architect - Chase UK

LONDON, LONDON, United Kingdom

Job Information

• Job Identification 210591114
• Job Category Architecture
• Business Unit Corporate Sector
• Posting Date 01/31/2025, 10:51 AM
• Locations LONDON, LONDON, United Kingdom
• Job Schedule Full time
• Job Shift Day

Job Description

We know that people want great value combined with an excellent experience from a bank they can trust, so we launched our digital bank, Chase UK, to revolutionise mobile banking with seamless journeys that our customers love. We're already trusted by millions in the US and we're quickly catching up in the UK – but how we do things here is a little different. We're building the bank of the future from scratch, channelling our start-up mentality every step of the way – meaning you'll have the opportunity to make a real impact.

Job Summary:

As a Senior Lead Cybersecurity Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Cybersecurity & Technology Controls (CTC) team for the International Consumer Bank, you will have an excellent opportunity to join a world class Cybersecurity 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. 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.

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. Embed threat modelling, solutions architecture, secure code review into product and application teams so they adopt our control products and create products that are secure from the start.
• Know your productacross 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.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Formal training or certification on Public Cloud computing concepts and proficient advanced experience
• Demonstrated experience / understanding with product technologies including but not limited to:
  • Understanding of Public Cloud computing, especially how controls are applied to secure data, ensure resiliency and availability. Kubernetes & micro-service architectures.
• Open authentication and authorization standards.
• Delivery excellence mixed with strategic vision.
• Able to communicate effectively and authoritatively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to clearly explain complex technical concepts in simple terms.
• Demonstrated success in influencing peers inside and outside your department.
• Ability to collaborate on, and/or lead, ad hoc teams for control architecture and design.
• Experience translating firmwide policy or regulatory requirements into control design and definition for Software Engineers and Solutions Architects.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Experience in financial services consumer businesses (i.e., Mortgages, Cards or Digital) preferred but not required.
• Thinks in terms of risks and outcomes, and able to translate those into actions required to achieve business and technology goals.
• Banking experience preferred but experience in industries with similar risk tolerance is acceptable.

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.