Lead Security Engineer - Python or Java, AWS

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. invites a Lead Security Engineer to join the Cybersecurity & Tech Controls team in Columbus, OH.

You will be a core technical contributor delivering secure software solutions and ensuring they meet functional requirements while preventing misuse and malicious behavior. You will drive threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, and secure SDLC practices, using AI-assisted workflows, and collaborate with stakeholders to strengthen controls across multiple business functions.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on security engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Ability to plan, design, and implement enterprise-level security solutions.
• Experience using enterprise-approved AI capabilities to support security workflows with validation and data sensitivity awareness.
• Ability to review AI-assisted code/security recommendations before adoption, aligning with security and auditability.
• Advanced in one or more programming languages.
• Proficient in SDLC execution including CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.
• Experience with threat modeling, discovery, vulnerability, and penetration testing.

Responsibilities

• Executes security solutions and design work, solving problems beyond conventional approaches.
• Uses enterprise AI capabilities to accelerate threat modeling and security documentation, with proper data handling.
• Develops secure production code and reviews code written by others.
• Reduces vulnerabilities by following regulations and testing methods; establishes control effectiveness.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to understand security needs and advise on business changes during vulnerabilities.
• Applies reuse-first, AI-assisted practices in SDLC to strengthen testing and ensure traceability.

Skills

Security engineering

Programming languages

SDLC / CI-CD

Threat modeling

Vulnerability testing

AI-assisted security workflows

Data sensitivity awareness

Tools

AWS

System Design

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 JPMorganChase within the Cybersecurity & Tech Controls, 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.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative security solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate threat modeling, vulnerability analysis synthesis, and security documentation, validating outputs and ensuring sensitive data is handled appropriately.
• 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, and conducts discovery, vulnerability, penetration testing, and threat scenarios to identify and assess vulnerabilities
• Works with stakeholders and business leaders to understand security needs and recommend business modifications during periods of vulnerability
• Applies reuse-first, AI-assisted practices within SDLC/toolchain routines to strengthen security testing and control validation, ensuring traceability/auditability and alignment to resiliency and security expectations.

Required Qualifications Capabilities and Skills

• Formal training or certification on security engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Skilled in planning, designing, and implementing enterprise level security solutions
• Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to support security engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
• Ability to review and validate AI-assisted code/security recommendations before adoption, escalating uncertainty and ensuring outcomes align to security, resiliency, and auditability expectations.
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
• Proficient across SDLC execution, including agile methodologies such as CI/CD, application resiliency, and security
• Experience with threat modeling, discovery, vulnerability, and penetration testing

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Python
• AWS
• System Design

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