Lead Security Engineer

Take on a crucial role where you'll be a key part of a high-performing team delivering secure software solutions. Make a real impact as you help shape the future of software security at one of the world's largest and most influential companies.

As a Lead Security Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Cybersecurity Technology & Controls, you are an integral part of team that works to deliver software solutions that satisfy pre-defined functional and user requirements with the added dimension of preventing misuse, circumvention, and malicious behavior. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions with tamper-proof, audit defensible methods across multiple technical areas within various business functions. 

Job responsibilities:

• Executes creative security solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions and break down technical problems


• Develops secure and high-quality production code and reviews and debugs code written by others


• Minimizes security vulnerabilities by following industry insights and governmental regulations to continuously evolve security protocols, including creating processes to determine the effectiveness of current controls


• Works with stakeholders and business leaders to understand security needs and recommend business modifications during periods of vulnerability


• Conducts discovery, vulnerability, penetration testing, and threat scenarios on multiple organizational assets to identify and assess if vulnerabilities are present, and executes threat modeling for multiple applications including external applications interacting with the internal JPMorgan Chase network


• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect


• Develop full stack application development and python knowledge. 


• Work with systems engineering, systems integrations and systems administration experience


• Operate threat intelligence and digital forensics workflow


• Knowledge of Threat Intelligence operations and digital forensics workflow


• 3rd party vendor management and troubleshooting engagement.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills: 

• Formal training or certification on engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience. 


• Skilled in planning, designing, and implementing enterprise level security solutions


• Commanding of a programming/scripting language for automation and integration tasks.


• Advanced in one or more programming languages


• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle


• Strong analytical experience with problem solving mindset and the ability to solve complex challenges. 


• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security