Lead Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co; North Carolina; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in the Cybersecurity Technology & Controls group. You will be a core technical contributor delivering trusted, scalable security products across multiple business functions.

Your role involves designing and implementing security monitoring controls, building modern tooling, and defining secure SDLC practices. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and contribute to architecture decisions in a high-stakes financial environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 5+ years in security analytics engineering.
• Hands-on experience with system design, development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience delivering secure software in an enterprise setting.
• Ability to work in an Agile team environment.

Responsibilities

• Execute creative software solutions and troubleshoot complex problems.
• Design, develop, test, and deploy security monitoring controls with blockchain focus.
• Identify and automate remediation to improve stability of apps and systems.
• Build tooling with API-first design, microservices, and event-driven patterns.

Skills

Programming languages

Automation scripting

Security analytics

Agile methodologies

Analytical thinking

Cybersecurity knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or Data Science

Tools

Splunk or equivalent

Job description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Cybersecurity Technology & Controls, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Design, develop, test, and deploy security monitoring controls, with a focus on block chain security
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Build and maintain modern tooling using API-first design, microservices and/or event-driven patterns, with strong non-functional focus (resilience, performance, scalability).
• Engineer and operate CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and security guardrails (code quality checks, dependency scanning, secrets scanning, policy gates).
• Define and execute secure SDLC practices including threat modeling, secure code review, vulnerability remediation, and secure configuration standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure timely, accurate integration of blockchain-related security telemetry and operational requirements.
• Perform technical evaluation during proof-of-concept / vendor assessments, providing SME input into architecture and product decisions.
• Knowledge of blockchain-related security telemetry and operational systems is a desirable
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Obtain Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or 5 plus years of experience engineering a security analytics platform (Splunk or equivalent), within a large-scale or global enterprise.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
• Command of a programming/scripting language for automation and integration tasks.
• Expert understanding of data management concepts in the context of a security analytics platform, including; ingestion, parsing and normalization.
• Strong analytical and problem solving mindset with the ability to solve complex challenges.
• Experience working in an Agile team environment, working with at least one of the common Agile frameworks.
• General understanding of organizational Cybersecurity practices, risk management, security architecture, and engineering.
• General understanding of national and international laws, regulations, policies and ethics related to financial industry cybersecurity