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Sr Lead Cybersecurity Architect - IAM | Database Security

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 30 Jan 2025

About the role

Play a vital role in shaping the future of an iconic company and make a direct impact in a dynamic environment designed for top achievers.

As a Senior Lead Cybersecurity Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Cybersecurity and Technology Controls organization, you will work proactively with your technology and business colleagues to identify and quantify security issues within their products and empower them to take decisive risk decisions at speed and scale. You are a security expert with a strong mix of database technology and communication skills and are passionate about enabling safe and secure innovation to make database products secure.   As a Senior Lead Cybersecurity Architect, you provide expertise to enhance and develop architecture platforms based on modern cloud-based technologies as well as support the adoption of strategic global solutions. Leverage your advanced architecture capabilities to identify, communicate, and mitigate risk, and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes.

Job responsibilities

  • Cultivate security culture. Products that have the right security culture will strive to prioritize sustainable controls and driving real risk reduction outcomes.  
  • Embed threat modeling, security architecture, secure code review into product and application teams to ensure products are created secure from the start.  
  • Know database products across their breadth and depth.  Be fluent in your product’s strategy and roadmap as well as its key investment programs. 
  • Be your product’s security thought leader.  Learn from your product and cybersecurity teams and share best practice in both directions.  Be recognized in your product as the clear point of escalation and subject matter expert for IT Risk and Cyber domains.  
  • Monitor Key Risk Indicators to ensure issues are identified, quantified, communicated, and managed in a timely manner, including recommendations for resolution, and identifying the root cause
  • Work collaboratively with product, technology, and business colleagues on an on-going basis for business-as-usual audit and regulatory engagements, risk activities and project initiatives.  
  • Guides the evaluation of current cybersecurity principals, processes, and controls, and leads the evaluation of new technology using existing standards and frameworks
  • Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors 
  • Serves as function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus  
  • Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle 
  • Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering* concepts and 5+ years applied experience
  • Experience of operating in a regulated organization with a 3rd LoD (Line of defense) model.
  • Detailed, technical understanding of Public Cloud computing (GCP/AWS). 
  • Proficient in database encryption techniques, both at rest and in transit, to protect sensitive data.
  • Proficient in database access control mechanisms, such as role-based access control (RBAC) and fine-grained access control (FGAC) mechanisms in DB systems.
  • Proficient in database auditing and monitoring solutions to detect and respond to potential security breaches.
  • Proficient in database vulnerability assessment and penetration testing methodologies to identify and remediate security weaknesses.
  • Experience with secure database architecture design, including tenant isolation, and database hardening techniques
  • Proficient in database backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies to ensure data availability and resilience against attacks or failures.
  • Experience with Integration of database security with identity and access management (IAM) systems, such as single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA) and newer technologies like OAuth and OpenID.
  • Familiarity with securing various database management systems (DBMS), such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Neo4J, TigerGraph.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Knowledgeable in industry-specific database security standards and regulations, such as HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and GDPR
  • Ability to collaborate on, and/or lead, ad hoc teams for control architecture and design.
  • Experience translating firm wide policy or regulatory requirements into control design and definition for Software Engineers and Soluti

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