Senior Lead Security Engineer

JPMorgan Chase; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Senior Lead Security Engineer to partner with product, technology, and business teams to assess security across features, platforms, and third‑party solutions. You will apply threat modeling and risk-based decisions to reduce misuse and risk while translating findings into actionable mitigation options for executives.

You will drive enterprise security architecture, review designs, and champion secure delivery practices across cloud, APIs, identity, and ML/AI enabled

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cybersecurity-related roles.
• Expertise in threat modeling, risk assessment, and secure design reviews.
• Proficiency across cloud environments, APIs, IAM, and secure software delivery.
• Ability to translate complex risks to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance to product and engineering teams for secure design.
• Conduct threat models and secure design reviews for applications and cloud platforms.
• Identify cybersecurity risks and communicate mitigations across business functions.
• Advise leadership on design or operational changes during vulnerabilities or incidents.
• Evaluate emerging technologies for security fit within architecture.
• Identify opportunities to reduce recurring security issues and strengthen posture.
• Promote AI-assisted security validation within the SDLC and toolchain.

Skills

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Cloud security

Vulnerability assessment

Security engineering

AI in security

Communication

Security reviews

Education

Cybersecurity certification (CISSP/CISM)

Tools

Cloud security tools

Threat modeling tools

Job description

Join one of the world's most influential companies and leverage your cybersecurity expertise to make a direct and meaningful impact across the financial industry. As a Senior Lead Security Engineer at JPMorganChase within Cybersecurity and Technology Controls, you will partner with product, technology, and business stakeholders to evaluate the security of new features, platforms, applications, and third-party solutions. You will apply secure design principles, threat modeling, and risk-based decision-making to reduce misuse, circumvention, and malicious behavior across modern technology environments. You will serve as a senior technical advisor, translating complex findings into clear mitigation options, architecture recommendations, and risk narratives for senior stakeholders.

Job responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and direction to product, engineering, business, contractor, and vendor teams to support secure design and delivery of new capabilities
• Conduct and maintain threat models, threat assessments, and secure design reviews for enterprise applications, cloud platforms, application programming interfaces, integrations, and third-party vendor solutions
• Identify, document, and communicate cybersecurity risks, mitigation options, compensating controls, and recommended solutions across multiple technical areas and business functions
• Partner with stakeholders and senior business leaders to recommend design, implementation, or operational changes during periods of vulnerability, incident response, remediation, or emerging risk
• Evaluate current and emerging technologies, including external vendor offerings and internal platforms, through outcomes-oriented review of security designs, technical capabilities, and fit within existing systems and cybersecurity architecture
• Identify opportunities to eliminate, reduce, or automate recurring security issues and improve the overall security posture of applications, systems, and technology processes
• Leverage enterprise-authorized artificial intelligence capabilities to accelerate security architecture and engineering workflows (for example, risk identification, threat assessment synthesis, documentation, and decision support), while validating outputs and handling data according to sensitivity and security requirements
• Drive reuse-first adoption of artificial intelligence-assisted security validation within the software development life cycle and delivery toolchain to improve control testing, remediation quality, traceability, auditability, and resiliency
• Lead or contribute to communities of practice that promote awareness, consistency, and adoption of cybersecurity technologies, secure design patterns, and risk management practices

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification in cybersecurity, security architecture, security engineering, or a related technical discipline, with 5+ years of applied experience
• Hands-on experience delivering, advising on, or implementing enterprise cybersecurity solutions, security controls, secure design patterns, or risk mitigation strategies
• Expertise in threat modeling, threat assessments, secure design reviews, vulnerability analysis, risk evaluation, and security requirements definition
• Proficiency in modern technology environments across one or more disciplines such as public cloud, application programming interfaces, identity and access management, artificial intelligence and machine learning, mobile, infrastructure, or application security
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies and recommend practical security solutions aligned to target architecture, business priorities, resiliency expectations, and risk appetite
• Deep expertise in one or more programming languages, platforms, cloud services, security tools, or application technologies, with the ability to review technical designs and engage credibly with engineering teams
• Experience partnering with product and technology teams to remediate vulnerabilities, incidents, control gaps, recurring issues, or design weaknesses
• Experience using enterprise-authorized artificial intelligence capabilities to support cybersecurity workflows, with strong validation practices and awareness of data sensitivity
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical risks, trade-offs, and recommendations to senior business leaders and technical stakeholders

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Experience with cloud-native security architecture, application programming interface security, identity federation, OAuth, SAML, secrets management, service-to-service authentication, or Zero Trust patterns
• Familiarity with vulnerability management, penetration testing outputs, security testing methodologies, incident remediation, or secure-by-design practices
• Experience evaluating third-party vendor solutions, software as a service platforms, integrations, or emerg