What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Cybersecurity Architect - Blockchain position at JPMorgan Chase?
Join one of the world's most influential companies and leverage your skills in cybersecurity to have a real impact on the financial industry.
As a Lead Cybersecurity Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Cyber Security and Technology Controls, you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality cybersecurity solutions for various software applications on modern cloud-based technologies. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for carrying out critical cybersecurity architecture solutions by identifying, creating, and communicating risk, mitigation options, and solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of project goals.
Job responsibilities
- Acts as the primary point of contact for security-related issues for product and development teams, running applications, platform, and infrastructure services.
- Engages technical teams and business stakeholders to discuss and propose technical approaches to meet current and future cybersecurity needs.
- Defines the technical target state of their cybersecurity product and drives achievement of the strategy.
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall cybersecurity of software applications and systems.
- Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive continuous improvement and assess cybersecurity design and technical credentials for use in existing systems and architecture.
- Conducts security architecture reviews and threat models to identify vulnerabilities and recommend solutions. Performs smart contract audits and provides remediation recommendations aligned to Web3 best practices.
- Leads communities of practice to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge cybersecurity technologies. Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years of applied experience in cybersecurity architecture.
- Experience with Blockchain security and different threats applicable to private , private-permissioned, and public Blockchains
- Proficiency at least at one cybersecurity domain, and working knowledge in multiple, e.g., Identity and Access Management, Network Security, Application Security. Good familiarity with various threat modelling methodologies, e.g., STRIDE, PASTA, attack trees
- Demonstrated experience utilizing OWASP Top 10, MITRE ATT&CK, STIX, etc. to assess the impact and severity of vulnerabilities and weaknesses to the business.
- Hands-on practical experience delivering enterprise-level cybersecurity solution architecture and recommending appropriate compensating controls.
- Experience with one or more scripting or programming languages, e.g., Bash, Python, Go, Kotlin, Java
- Proficiency in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle .Practical cloud native experience, such as AWS Services
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Strong understanding of smart contracts, smart contract common vulnerabilities, and security development patterns applied to smart contracts. Background in conducting threat models to Web3 projects.
- Good knowledge of Ethereum and EVM-compatible networks (both permissioned and public networks)
- Proficiency in Go and/or Rust with in-depth expertise on the languages, their internal and pitfalls, as well as their tooling ecosystem for security tooling automation and enhancements .Familiarity with ZKP concepts and relevant protocols, e.g., ZKSNARKS, ZKSTARKS, Bulletproofs
- Automated testing proficiency is desired, e.g., experience working with fuzzers, including building harness, rules. Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as continuous integration and delivery, application resiliency, and security
