Principal Security Controls Architect

JPMorgan Chase & Co.•Jersey City, NJ

10h

About The Position

As a Principal Security Controls Architect at JPMorganChase within CTO Global Technology Asset Management, you will lead the modernization of how the firm designs, automates, and governs its technology controls. This role involves building security controls that scale, designing governance frameworks that are adopted, and translating complex risk into actionable engineering requirements. You will take ownership of building the control architecture and asset governance model for a global technology organization, reimagining the technology control ecosystem, architecting control design and automation pipelines, and establishing governance standards that satisfy both engineering teams and regulatory examiners. Your engineering decisions will have lasting, enterprise-wide impact, shaping how risk is understood and managed across the entire firm.

Requirements

10 years in cybersecurity, security and technology controls, ITAM or related engineering and risk domains, including senior-level leadership and delivery ownership
Demonstrated experience architecting security and technology controls at scale
Strong experience with asset inventory, asset lifecycle management, and taxonomy and metadata modeling, including how taxonomy drives control applicability and coverage
Experience building automation-first solutions including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and automated evidence collection and monitoring frameworks
Strong engineering depth and ability to partner with developers
Translate threat models and attack surface analysis into actionable control requirements and auditable governance standards, grounded in a strong working knowledge of current and evolving security control frameworks
Ability to present and influence executive audiences, articulate complex technical risk clearly, and drive decisions across stakeholders

Nice To Haves

Experience partnering with Risk, Compliance, and Audit to improve control design, evidence quality, and examination readiness while reducing operational burden
Experience with large-scale enablement across multiple lines of business and engineering organizations
Familiarity mapping controls and governance requirements to common frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, or CIS Controls, and translating framework requirements into engineering-executable standards
Experience with cybersecurity asset management platforms such as ServiceNow CMDB, Axonius, or equivalent, including designing data models, ownership workflows, and asset lifecycle governance processes
Demonstrated ability to define and track control health metrics, KPIs, and adoption indicators that communicate security posture and governance maturity to executive and risk audiences

Responsibilities

Define and drive the strategy and roadmap for technology control architecture across Global Technology Asset Management, aligning to regulatory expectations and firmwide security standards
Establish and enhance an enterprise-grade asset taxonomy including critical metadata, ownership, lifecycle state, and control applicability
Architect and design control patterns that are reusable and scalable reducing manual processes and improving auditability
Partner with platform and product teams to embed controls into the asset lifecycle
Define control coverage and control health metrics, dashboards, and operational mechanisms to measure effectiveness, exceptions, and remediation progress
Evaluate, select, and implement security/control process/tooling to improve asset transparency, control automation, and evidence quality
Continually assess new trends in technology and determine implications on the overall security control process
Drive security engineering thought leadership within the product line
Champion the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect