Job Description

Join us and make a real impact as you help shape the future of software security at one of the world’s largest and most influential companies. You’ll be part of a high-performing team delivering secure, innovative solutions that protect our business and clients. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, work with cutting-edge technology, and collaborate with talented professionals. We value your expertise and encourage you to bring your ideas to the table. Together, we’ll build a safer, more resilient digital future.

As a Lead Security Engineer in the Cloud Security Engineering organization, you will play a pivotal role in delivering software solutions that meet functional and user requirements while preventing misuse and malicious behavior. You will carry out critical technology solutions using tamper-proof, audit-defensible methods across multiple technical areas and business functions. You will help drive secure engineering practices and foster a culture of innovation and excellence. Your contributions will directly impact the security and scalability of our cloud environment.

Job Responsibilities:

• Engage and improve the lifecycle of services from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement
• Develop and build solutions for cloud environment governance, protection, auditing, monitoring, remediation, and reporting
• Use 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
• Design, develop, and improve services to scale with the firm’s cloud usage
• Develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software and tooling solutions
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Perform system design and code reviews
• Advocate for engineering and operational excellence
• Lead stakeholder interactions and mentor junior engineers
• Apply 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

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• Experience developing and architecting cloud-native applications with AWS services, including proficiency with Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, and EKS
• Hands-on expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions such as Terraform and CloudFormation
• Proficiency in developing enterprise software and multiple programming languages, preferably Python
• CI/CD experience utilizing tools like GitHub and Jenkins, with familiarity in Agile development methodologies
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively convey technical design ideas to stakeholders
• Ability to conceptualize, design, validate, and implement creative solutions to complex technical issues
• Skill in analyzing system metrics and data to draw insightful conclusions and make forward-thinking decisions that prevent technical debt
• Capacity to work independently and collaboratively within a team to achieve common goals
• 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

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Cybersecurity knowledge
• Experience with Azure, GCP, or other public cloud environments
• Cloud certifications such as AWS Developer Associate or AWS Solutions Architect Associate

If you’re ready to make a difference and grow your career in a collaborative, innovative environment, we invite you to join us.

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.