Senior Lead Cybersecurity Architect

The Senior Lead Cybersecurity Architect role sits within JPMorgan

Chase’s Cybersecurity Organization, focused on creating and improving high-quality cybersecurity solutions for software applications and platform products. The position combines architecture leadership, control assessment, and technical guidance to help teams evaluate security principles, validate recommendations, and strengthen security posture across the software development lifecycle.

• Lead evaluation of current cybersecurity principles, processes, and controls, and assess new technologies using established standards and frameworks to influence peers and decision-makers toward leading-edge solutions when appropriate
• Use enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to accelerate cybersecurity risk analysis and control assessments, validating outputs and ensuring data handling aligns with sensitivity and security requirements
• Provide technical direction and guidance to support the business and technical teams, including contractors and vendors, serving as a subject matter expert across one or more focus areas
• Partner with stakeholders and senior business leaders to recommend business modifications during vulnerability periods
• Drive reuse-first adoption of AI-assisted security validation in the software development lifecycle and toolchain routines to improve control testing, remediation quality, and traceability in line with resiliency expectations
• Advocate and contribute to the engineering community by promoting firm-wide frameworks, tools, and practices across the software development lifecycle
• Define and document how new systems or interfaces affect the security posture of the existing environment
• Identify thematic risks and develop repeatable patterns to remediate them at scale

• Formal training or certification on cybersecurity architecture concepts, plus 5+ years of applied experience
• Hands-on, practical experience delivering enterprise-level cybersecurity solutions and controls
• Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to support cybersecurity architecture workflows, including strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity
• Ability to assess and validate AI-assisted security recommendations prior to adoption, escalating uncertainty when needed to ensure alignment with security, resiliency, and auditability expectations
• Advanced expertise in one or more programming languages and/or applications, with advanced knowledge of cybersecurity architecture, applications, and technical processes within one or more technical disciplines (such as public cloud, AI/ML, or mobile)
• Capability to address design and functionality problems independently with minimal oversight
  
  Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to select or recommend best-fit solutions for future-state architecture

• Experience with threat modeling platforms, public cloud services, applications, and AI-enabled assets
• Ability to communicate effectively with architects and developers to align on risk remediation strategies
• Experience articulating risk, escalating issues, and writing design patterns that support implementation
• Ability to manage competing priorities independently while maintaining strong relationships with line-of-business partners
• Experience defining and documenting how new system implementations or integrations impact overall security posture

• AI/ML
• Public cloud
• Mobile

Plano, TX (onsite)