Lead Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Columbus, OH +1 · Corporate Sector

Lead Software Engineer in Cybersecurity Technology & Controls, focusing on designing, developing, and deploying security monitoring controls, particularly for blockchain security. The role involves building modern tooling, engineering CI/CD pipelines with security guardrails, and defining secure SDLC practices. Requires a strong background in security analytics platforms and programming languages, with an understanding of financial industry cybersecurity regulations.

What you'd actually do

  1. Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
  2. Design, develop, test, and deploy security monitoring controls, with a focus on block chain security
  3. Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
  4. Build and maintain modern tooling using API-first design, microservices and/or event-driven patterns, with strong non-functional focus (resilience, performance, scalability).
  5. Engineer and operate CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and security guardrails (code quality checks, dependency scanning, secrets scanning, policy gates).

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or 5 plus years of experience engineering a security analytics platform (Splunk or equivalent), within a large-scale or global enterprise.
  • Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
  • Command of a programming/scripting language for automation and integration tasks.
  • Expert understanding of data management concepts in the context of a security analytics platform, including; ingestion, parsing and normalization.
  • Strong analytical and problem solving mindset with the ability to solve complex challenges.
  • Experience working in an Agile team environment, working with at least one of the common Agile frameworks.
  • General understanding of organizational Cybersecurity practices, risk management, security architecture, and engineering.
  • General understanding of national and international laws, regulations, policies and ethics related to financial industry cybersecurity

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of blockchain-related security telemetry and operational systems is a desirable

What the JD emphasized

  • blockchain security
  • security monitoring controls
  • secure SDLC practices
  • vulnerability remediation
  • threat modeling