Product Security - Cyber Security Architect - Chase UK

At JP Morgan Chase, we understand that customers seek exceptional value and a seamless experience from a trusted financial institution. That’s why we launched Chase UK to transform digital banking with intuitive and enjoyable customer journeys. With a strong foundation of trust established by millions of customers in the US, we have been rapidly expanding our presence in the UK and soon across Europe. We have been building the bank of the future from the ground up, offering you the chance to join us and make a significant impact.

As a Lead Security Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the International Consumer Bank, you will play a crucial role in this initiative, dedicated to delivering an outstanding banking experience to our customers. You will work in a collaborative environment as part of a diverse, inclusive, and geographically distributed team. We are seeking individuals with a curious mindset and a keen interest in new technology. Our engineers are naturally solution-oriented and possess an interest in the financial sector and focus on addressing our customer needs.

Our Security Engineering team is at the heart of this venture, focused on getting smart ideas into the hands of our customers. We’re looking for people who have a curious mindset, thrive in collaborative squads, and are passionate about new technology. By their nature, our people are also solution-oriented, commercially savvy and have a head for fintech. We work in tribes and squads that focus on specific products and projects - and depending on your strengths and interests, you’ll have the opportunity to move between them.

This product security role in International Consumer Banking has the opportunity to explore a wide range of problem spaces, working primarily on web application security whilst getting exposure to our Android and iOS mobile apps. You will engage directly with development teams and the wider security team to collaborate and solve technical problems. You will analyse application code, detect complex vulnerabilities, and communicate directly with the development teams to educate and assist them in mitigating these risks. You will develop frameworks and tools to perform automated detection of vulnerabilities. You will define best practices across the business to help us engineer more secure products that allows us to build trust at scale.

Job Responsibilities:

• Perform web application security review across consumer banking products and provide thought leadership and guidance to peers and senior management.
• Build automation (static and dynamic analysis) and frameworks with software engineers that can improve security, whilst also improving developer and customer experience.
• Provide guidance and education to developers that help prevent the authoring of vulnerabilities.
• Challenge and assess potential technology risks including information and cyber security control weaknesses.
• Provide technology risk subject matter expertise and communicate the risk environment to management and other key stakeholders.
• Build solid professional relationships with matrixed teams to include technology, business, audit, and operational risk partners.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Formal training or certification on web application programming languages concepts and proficient advanced experience.
• Familiarity with web application programming languages (backend and frontend), development practices, and common security patterns.
• Being a proficient communicator that allows you to share your knowledge and collaborate with the development team.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Knowledge of penetration testing techniques.
• Knowledge of tools used in the security industry (e.g. Burp, OWASP ZAP).
• Python, Ruby, Go or a similar language that can help you aid in the implementation of automation tooling.
• Familiarity with IT risk management operating models, three lines-of-defense frameworks, integrated risk management practices, and/or risk intelligence capabilities.
• Experience operating within a regulated industry.

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.