Technology Cybersecurity Operational Risk Management Lead - Vice President

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Cybersecurity Operational Lead within Risk Management and Compliance to strengthen controls across the technology estate. You will collaborate across the first, second, and third lines of defense to assess global cybersecurity risks, lead risk assessments, and monitor controls.

Apply hands-on security expertise to evaluate large environments, communicate risk and control effectiveness to senior leaders, and drive mitigation actions to improve operational resilience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a technologist in cybersecurity within financial services.
• Strong understanding of enterprise risk management concepts and practices.
• Experience in cybersecurity practices such as vulnerability management, incident response, endpoint protection, data loss prevention, email security, SIEM, DDoS, or public cloud security configuration.

Responsibilities

• Engage with technology and cybersecurity teams to evaluate processes, controls, and risks.
• Assess cybersecurity risk impacts at the line of business and enterprise levels.
• Identify global risk concentrations and evaluate control effectiveness and residual risk.
• Write and present risk and control assessments to Executive Directors, Managing Directors, and governance forums.
• Coordinate with peers to deliver long-running assessments and oversight activities on schedule.
• Maintain domain expertise in an assigned security control area and provide credible challenge and guidance.
• Monitor cyber trends, vulnerabilities, and emerging technologies to inform oversight priorities.
• Perform independent operational risk assessments through monitoring programs, including significant event reviews, deep dives, risk metrics, and risk appetite assessments.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Risk management

Regulatory compliance

Threat detection

Cloud security

Communication

NIST CSF

Security frameworks

Job description

Bring your Expertise to JPMorganChase. As part of Risk Management and Compliance, you are at the center of keeping JPMorganChase strong and resilient. You help the firm grow its business in a responsible way by anticipating new and emerging risks and using your expert judgement to solve real-world challenges that impact our company, customers and communities. Our culture in Risk Management and Compliance is all about thinking outside the box, challenging the status quo and striving to be best-in-class.

As a Cybersecurity Operational Lead in Compliance, Conduct, and Operational Risk team, you will collaborate across the first, second, and third lines of defense to assess global cybersecurity risks across the JPMorganChase technology estate. You lead risk assessments, significant event reviews, and control monitoring across security configuration and security operations domains. You apply hands‑on security control experience to evaluate large environments, communicate risk and control effectiveness to senior leaders, and recommend mitigation actions. You help us strengthen operational resilience through consistent oversight and credible challenge.

Job responsibilities:

• Engage with technology and cybersecurity teams to evaluate processes, controls, and risks
• Assess cybersecurity risk impacts at the line of business and enterprise levels
• Identify global risk concentrations and evaluate control effectiveness and residual risk
• Write and present risk and control assessments to Executive Directors, Managing Directors, and governance forums
• Coordinate with peers to deliver long-running assessments and oversight activities on schedule
• Maintain domain expertise in an assigned security control area and provide credible challenge and guidance
• Monitor cyber trends, vulnerabilities, and emerging technologies to inform oversight priorities
• Perform independent operational risk assessments through monitoring programs, including significant event reviews, deep dives, risk metrics, and risk appetite assessments

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• 5 years plus of experience as a technologist in cybersecurity, technology development, engineering, or technical architecture within financial services
• Strong understanding of enterprise risk management concepts and practices
• Experience in cybersecurity practices such as vulnerability management, penetration testing, incident response, endpoint protection, data loss prevention, email security, SIEM, DDoS, or public cloud security configuration
• Ability to understand complex technical systems and the business processes they support, assess inherent risk, and recommend mitigating controls
• Ability to work with limited supervision and deliver results on long-running projects
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks such as NIST CSF or FFIEC

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience translating on-premises security configurations and operational processes into multi-cloud environments
• Understanding of how cloud and on-premises controls support regulatory compliance requirements
• One or more information security or cloud certifications, such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC, CCNA Security, AWS Security Specialty, or Azure Security Engineer