About the role
What will you do at JPMorganChase?
Join one of the world's most innovative financial institutions, where your
engineering skills will help protect and power technology at a global scale. At
JPMorganChase, we invest in our people, our platforms, and our future — offering
you the opportunity to grow alongside cutting-edge technology and a team that
values collaboration, curiosity, and continuous improvement.
As a Sr Lead Security Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Cybersecurity &
Technology Controls team in Corporate Technology, you will design and deliver
scalable, resilient full-stack solutions that sit at the intersection of
security and engineering excellence. You will play a key role in advancing our
digital asset custody platform, driving AI-assisted engineering practices, and
ensuring our systems are built to the highest standards of reliability and
security. This role offers the opportunity to work across a broad technology
landscape — from cloud infrastructure to blockchain integrations — while
contributing to a team that is shaping the future of secure financial
technology.
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Job responsibilities
* Design and develop scalable, resilient systems using Java or Python,
contributing to continual, iterative improvements for product teams through
hands-on software solutions, development, and technical troubleshooting
* Develop and operate microservices including API design, service
decomposition, and reliability patterns such as timeouts, retries,
idempotency, and dead-letter queues
* Build and maintain integrations using AWS services including API Gateway,
SQS, SNS, S3, and RDS; troubleshoot production issues across services and
infrastructure
* Produce clear design and architecture artifacts — including service
boundaries, data flows, sequence diagrams, and architecture decision records
— ensuring implementation aligns with design constraints
* Gather, analyze, and synthesize large, diverse data sets to develop
visualizations and reporting that drive continuous improvement of software
applications and systems; identify hidden problems and patterns in data to
improve coding hygiene and system architecture
* Design and implement components of a digital asset custody platform,
including signing pipeline services, policy evaluation engines, and chain
adapter integrations across EVM and non-EVM networks
* Architect, deploy, and manage scalable applications using AWS cloud services
across the full software development lifecycle
* Drive team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering
practices — including AI-assisted code review, refactoring, test strategy
acceleration, and incident root-cause analysis — while establishing
consistent validation standards for secure coding, peer review, and automated
testing
* Apply knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle toolchain capabilities,
including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation tools,
to improve the value realized through automation and delivery speed
* Contribute to software engineering communities of practice and events that
explore new and emerging technologies
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Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
* Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+
years applied experience
* Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development,
testing, and operational stability in a large corporate environment using one
or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
* Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle and agile
methodologies including CI/CD, application resiliency, and security
* Knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical
discipline such as cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or
mobile
* Experience with digital asset or financial services platforms, including
familiarity with transaction lifecycle, key management concepts, or custody
workflows
* Experience architecting and building with AWS cloud services
* Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted
software development tools — including coding, code review, test
acceleration, and troubleshooting — with the ability to set team expectations
for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security
* Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows,
including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs and
outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience
coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
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Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
* Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
* Experience with blockchain technologies, including public chains such as
Ethereum or other EVM-compatible networks
* Experience with advanced CI/CD pipeline design and optimization
* Experience with Terraform scripting and infrastructure-as-code best practices
#CTC
JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative
financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the
world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the
J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are
a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial
banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined
based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles
may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation,
paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of
individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and
programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include
comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a
retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health
support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total
compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
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
[https://careers.jpmorgan.com/us/en/how-we-hire/faqs] for more information about
requesting an accommodation.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including
Disability/Veterans
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from
finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an
essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses,
clients, customers and employees up for success.
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