Senior Product Security Architect

JPMorganChase; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm is seeking a Senior Product Security Architect for the Cybersecurity & Technology Controls team. This role involves cultivating a strong security culture and working closely with technology and business partners to identify and manage security issues. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in cybersecurity solutions and must effectively influence and communicate across departments. This position offers an opportunity to impact a prestigious organization positively.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in delivering enterprise level cybersecurity solutions.
• Ability to tackle problems independently with little oversight.
• Experience in financial services consumer businesses or Fintech Organizations.

Responsibilities

• Cultivate security culture with product technology colleagues.
• Monitor Key Risk Indicators and manage issues in a timely manner.
• Work collaboratively with product, technology, and business teams.

Skills

Threat Modelling and Security Design Reviews

Cybersecurity Architecture

Public Cloud (GCP & AWS)

Strong communication skills

Software Supply Chain Security

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

As a Senior Product Security Architect at JPMorgan Chase within 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.

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, 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.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills:

• Hands-on practical experience delivering enterprise level cybersecurity solutions and controls via Threat Modelling 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.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Ability to communicate effectively and authoritatively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated success in influencing peers inside and outside your department
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to select or recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture
• Demonstrated practical 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

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills:

• Experience of operating in a regulated organization with a 3LoD (Line of Defence) model
• Willing to challenge the existing regime and process, in a respectful way
• Experience translating firmwide policy or regulatory requirements into control design and definition for Software Engineers and Solutions Architects
• Proven experience of upskilling and learning modern technologies
• Experience in financial services consumer businesses or Fintech Organizations (i.e., Mortgages, Cards or Digital)

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.