Sr Director of Security Engineering

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

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. seeks a Sr. Director of Security Engineering to build and lead the CAES team.

This senior executive role unites multiple architecture engineering disciplines, defines the operating model, and owns staffing and delivery across pods. You’ll drive secure-by-design practices, incident readiness, and cross‑functional collaboration with product leadership. You will shape the centralized program, align capacity with the operating plan, and ensure delivery health across the

Qualifications

• Formal training or certificate with 15+ years in technology building and shipping software at enterprise scale.
• Leading software engineering teams, including performance management, staffing, and career development.
• Track record of delivering and operating a platform or tool relied upon by multiple product owners, ideally with AI/ML.
• Experience restructuring an engineering organization and defining operating models, delivery standards, and practices.
• Knowledge of secure-by-design engineering and financial-services regulatory expectations.

Responsibilities

• Lead CTC Architecture Engineering Services and direct centralized software engineering execution across CTC Architecture.
• Organize engineers into pods covering threat modeling platforms, architecture platforms, automation, test and quality platforms.
• Own technical architecture decisions across the portfolio and serve as escalation point for incidents.
• Sequence development work with the CAES Product Director and rebalance capacity as priorities change.
• Set operational excellence standards (SLOs, KPIs) for quality, turnaround, and coverage.
• Provide dedicated engineering leadership to allow individual contributors to focus on craft and delivery.
• Own performance management, staffing, and day-to-day prioritization for architects and engineers.
• Create stretch opportunities and partner with leadership on calibration and talent development.
• Define operating model, pod structure, capacity planning cadence, and cross-discipline prioritization.
• Establish delivery standards and obtain engineering sign-off on release readiness.

Skills

Leadership experience

Platform engineering

AI/ML production experience

Capacity planning

Security engineering

Education

Formal training or certificate with 15+ years in technology

Job description

We are hiring a Sr. Director of Security Engineering to build and lead the Cyber Security and tech controls Architecture Engineering Services (CAES) team at JPMorgan Chase. This is a people-manager role at Senior Executive Director scope, accountable for a team with the following mandates:

Lead CTC Architecture Engineering Services. Direct the centralized engineering organization that builds and owns every CTC Architecture software product, spanning threat modeling platforms, architecture platforms and automation, and test and quality platforms. Own how its capacity gets allocated. Match pooled capacity to the annual Operating Plan, portfolio priority, business value, and risk reduction in partnership with the CAES Product Director.

Lead a centralized engineering team built from teams that previously operated independently. Unite software engineers from across CTC Architecture under a single organization that reports directly to CTC Architecture leadership, and own hiring, performance, and career development for the combined team. Establish the CAES operating model and engineering standard. Define the pod structure, delivery standards, and capacity planning process for a newly formed organization, and hold the decision on technical architecture across the portfolio.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead CTC Architecture Engineering Services and direct centralized software engineering execution across CTC Architecture.
• Organize software engineers into product-aligned pods covering threat modeling platforms, architecture platforms and automation, test and quality platforms, and shared enablement across SRE, DevOps, and quality engineering.
• Hold the bar on secure-by-design, data protection, and operational resilience for the platforms CAES builds and runs. Own technical architecture decisions across the portfolio and serve as the escalation point for production incidents. Allocate Engineering Capacity Across the Portfolio .Match pooled engineering capacity to the annual Operating Plan, portfolio priority, business value, and risk reduction.
• Partner with the CAES Product Director to sequence development work against delivery urgency, business cases, and expected outcomes.
• Run the allocation process product teams use to request engineering, and rebalance capacity across pods as priorities change. Make delivery health and capacity utilization visible to CTC Architecture leadership. Lead a Centralized Software Engineering Team
• Bring software engineers who previously sat in separate CTC Architecture teams into a single organization reporting directly to CTC Architecture leadership. Set operational excellence standards (SLOs, KPIs) for quality, turnaround, and coverage that business units rely on.
• Provide dedicated engineering leadership so software engineers can focus on their craft, and lift day-to-day delivery management off leaders who run mixed teams today.
• Own performance management, staffing, and day-to-day prioritization for your architects and engineers. Protect time for functional contribution such as Community of Practice mentoring, and pattern authorship, and treat it as part of the job rather than extracurricular.
• Create stretch opportunities, run rigorous evidence-based promotion cases, and partner with the Chief Security Architect organization on calibration. Define the CAES operating model and resource plan, including pod structure, capacity planning cadence, and cross-discipline prioritization.
• Establish delivery standards and engineering practices that apply consistently across pods, replacing methods that vary team to team. Provide engineering sign-off on release readiness alongside CTC Architecture domain leads.
• Define and track the delivery, quality, and adoption metrics that tie engineering investment to measurable outcomes.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Formal training or certificate with 15+ years in technology building and shipping software at enterprise scale. Leading software engineering teams, including performance management, staffing, and career development.
• Track record of delivering and operating a platform or tool that other engineering teams actually depend on, ideally one incorporating AI/ML.
• Experience leading a centralized or shared-services engineering team that serves multiple product owners, including allocating finite capacity against competing priorities.
• Track record of standing up or restructuring an engineering organization, including operating model, delivery standards, and engineering practice.
• Command of modern software delivery at scale, including architecture, SRE, DevOps, quality engineering, and production operations.
• Experience partnering with product management on roadmap, business cases, and investment decisions.
• Working knowledge of secure-by-design engineering and the financial-services regulatory expectations that shape architecture decisions.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Prior experience leading an internal platform, product engineering, or security tooling organization at a large enterprise.
• Hands‑on familiarity with AI/LLM systems in production: evaluation, guardrails, prompt/data security, and model governance. Background in security engineering, threat modeling, or architecture governance as a product domain.
• Experience integrating engineering teams that previously reported into separate leaders, and carrying in‑flight commitments through the transition.
• Familiarity with pooled capacity models and the intake process product teams use to request engineering. Experience setting hiring, leveling, or development standards for senior technical talent.
• CISSP, CISM, advanced cloud architecture certifications, or comparable senior credentials.

#CTC

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on‑site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

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JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success. We are hiring a Sr. Director of Security Engineering (L7) to build and lead the CTC Architecture Engineering Services (CAES) team at JPMorgan Chase. This is a people-manager role at Senior Executive Director scope, accountable for a team.