Lead AI Security Architect for Agentic Systems

JPMorgan Chase; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 138,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in the United States is seeking a Lead Cybersecurity Architect specializing in AI/agentic security to join the Cybersecurity Technology & Controls team. You will help shape secure architectures across cloud-enabled applications and modern platforms.

As a core technical contributor, you will identify risk, define target security states, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver robust defenses for enterprise systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of cybersecurity architectural knowledge with hands-on enterprise experience.
• Advanced in one or more programming languages.
• Hands-on coding experience with AI/ML and agents.
• ownership of SDRs, security design reviews, and architecture governance for large-scale platforms.
• Proven expertise in threat modeling and mitigating AI/ML risks.
• Strong depth across cloud and application security including IAM, encryption, and secure SDLC/CI/CD.
• Experience securing agentic AI systems and tool integrations.
• Proficiency across Software Development Life Cycle.
• Experience communicating with senior leaders in financial services IT.
• Ability to evaluate current technologies for future state architecture.

Responsibilities

• Engages technical teams and business stakeholders to discuss and propose technical approaches to meet current and future cybersecurity needs
• Defines the technical target state of their cybersecurity product and drives achievement of the strategy
• Develop software, use firmwide AI/ML tools to enhance, automate, improve secure design and threat assessment processes.
• Own and drive SDRs for AI/ML platforms, agentic systems, and MCP integrations; document decisions, required controls, and risk acceptances
• Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to support cybersecurity architecture workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
• Ability to assess and validate AI-assisted security recommendations before adoption, escalating uncertainty and ensuring outcomes align to security, resiliency, and auditability expectations.
• Define and govern secure reference architectures for agentic systems and MCP-enabled workflows, including isolation, segmentation, encryption, and identity management
• Define security requirements for authentication, authorization, data classification, and encrypted communications for MCP servers and agentic workflows
• Conduct and maintain threat models for agentic systems, MCP servers, and LLM Suite integrations, identifying and mitigating risks such as prompt injection, data leakage, and supply chain threats

Skills

Cybersecurity architecture

Threat modeling

AI/ML security

Cloud security

Identity management

Encryption / key management

Tools

AI platforms

Security tooling

CI/CD security

Logging & monitoring

MCP integrations

Job description

JPMorgan Chase in the United States is seeking a Lead Cybersecurity Architect specializing in AI/agentic security to join the Cybersecurity Technology & Controls team. You will help shape secure architectures across cloud-enabled applications and modern platforms.

As a core technical contributor, you will identify risk, define target security states, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver robust defenses for enterprise systems.