Lead Security Engineer - Threat Modeling

JPMorganChase•Plano, TX

15h

About The Position

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 and Technology Controls team, you design and deliver trusted cybersecurity architecture solutions for software applications and platforms. You collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement technology solutions and communicate risk and mitigation options using best practices in support of the firm’s business objectives. You play a key role in protecting the firm’s data and infrastructure.

Requirements

Formal training or certification on security engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
Experience creating cybersecurity solutions based on existing security parameters
Ability to evaluate current cybersecurity technologies to recommend ways to optimize architecture
Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
Proficient in coding in one or more languages
Strong working knowledge of information and network security, IT risk management, and architectural concepts and patterns
Hands-on practical experience performing threat modeling for software applications and systems
CISSP or CCSP certification
Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to support security engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
Ability to review and validate AI-assisted code/security recommendations before adoption, escalating uncertainty and ensuring outcomes align to security, resiliency, and auditability expectations.
Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., public cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
Exposure to cloud technologies AWS or GCP

Responsibilities

Perform analysis and reporting against security risks to protect data, applications, and infrastructure using modern tools
Conduct reviews on existing security controls with minimal oversight
Identify gaps in network architecture and create documentation of threats and mitigations for small software applications
Create secure and high-quality production code and maintain algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications, ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
Gather, analyze, synthesize, and develop visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
Proactively identify hidden problems and patterns in data and use these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
Contribute to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate threat modeling, vulnerability analysis synthesis, and security documentation, validating outputs and ensuring sensitive data is handled appropriately.
Applies reuse-first, AI-assisted practices within SDLC/toolchain routines to strengthen security testing and control validation, ensuring traceability/auditability and alignment to resiliency and security expectations.