Senior Lead Cybersecurity Architect: Secure-by-Design

JPMorganChase; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Lead Cybersecurity Architect to join the Employee Compute Security Architecture (ECSA) team. You will drive secure-by-default configurations, threat modeling, and consultative design reviews across endpoint security and related domains.

You will guide product teams and executives on risk mitigations and regulatory mappings while advancing DevSecOps practices. The role emphasizes hands-on security architecture, cross‑team collaboration, and influence at pace

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on cybersecurity architecture and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering enterprise‑level cybersecurity solutions and controls, including threat modeling, threat assessments, and secure design reviews.

Responsibilities

• Lead and own the evaluation of cybersecurity principles, processes, and controls across the endpoint security estate; drive technology assessments using established security standards and patterns, with the authority to influence peers and decision-makers to adopt leading-edge solutions.
• Define, publish, and maintain secure-by-default baseline configurations and consumable security services that endpoint security product teams can adopt directly within their delivery lifecycle.
• Conduct proactive threat modeling, security assessments, and technical risk assessments on design proposals from product and engineering teams, delivering consultative secure design reviews.
• Leverage enterprise-authorized AI and machine learning capabilities to improve the efficiency, throughput, and quality of cybersecurity architecture work — including accelerating risk analysis and decisioning, automating threat modeling and secure design reviews, and generating control artifacts — while validating outputs and handling data according to sensitivity and security requirements.
• Serve as a subject matter expert across ECSA and the broader cybersecurity organization, providing technical guidance and direction to technology teams, business partners, contractors, and vendors, and championing secure-by-design adoption at speed.
• Work with stakeholders and senior business leaders to recommend risk mitigations and business modifications during periods of elevated risk, open vulnerability windows, or active risk acceptance decisions, and translate regulatory requirements into actionable technical controls.
• Produce control artifacts and evidence that simplify compliance, streamline audits, and accelerate time to value for product teams.
• Actively contribute to the engineering community as an advocate for firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle, integrating security into CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps workflows.
• Influence technology decisions by introducing improvements in implementation patterns and architectural design, and identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues.
• Manage concurrent architecture engagements — balancing priorities, deadlines, and deliverables across multiple product teams — to ensure timely security design input and implementation support.
• Add to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modeling

AI/ML in security

Scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash)

Endpoint security

CI/CD security

Security governance

Communicating to executives

Tools

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Lead Cybersecurity Architect to join the Employee Compute Security Architecture (ECSA) team. You will drive secure-by-default configurations, threat modeling, and consultative design reviews across endpoint security and related domains.

You will guide product teams and executives on risk mitigations and regulatory mappings while advancing DevSecOps practices. The role emphasizes hands-on security architecture, cross‑team collaboration, and influence at pace