Senior DevSecOps Architect

Job summary

As a Senior DevSecOps Architect at JPMorganChase, you will partner with technology and business teams to address security issues, embed security culture, and lead threat modeling and architecture reviews. Your role involves managing emerging risks, influencing product strategy, and serving as a subject matter expert for DevSecOps strategy and automated security controls in CI/CD pipelines. You will collaborate globally, supporting audit, regulatory, and risk initiatives, with a focus on cloud computing and emerging technologies.

Qualifications

• Advanced threat modeling experience (e.g., STRIDE-LM) for DevOps/CICD Pipelines and toolchains.
• Expert ability to advise and influence secure pipeline architecture using Policy-as-Code and automated gates.
• Hands-on security expertise in AWS and GCP.
• Practical experience creating reference architectures and patterns for engineering teams.
• Proven ability to design and deploy automated preventive and detective guardrails at scale.
• Expertise in leveraging IaC scanning to detect misconfigurations and compliance violations across Terraform and Kubernetes manifests.
• Hands-on experience in integrating a comprehensive DevSecOps tooling stack, including SAST, SCA, RASP, IAST, container and image scanning, secrets detection, and AI-powered DAST solutions.
• Experience implementing and managing SBOMs to track internal, third-party risk and supply chain security.
• Ability to solve design and functionality problems independently.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated success in influencing peers and stakeholders.
• Ability to evaluate and recommend emerging technologies for future state architecture.
• Proven track record of mentoring developers and fostering a culture where security is a shared responsibility.
• Experience operating in regulated organizations with a 3LoD model.
• Willingness to challenge existing processes respectfully.
• Experience translating policy and regulatory requirements into control design for engineers and architects.
• Proven ability to upskill and learn modern technologies.
• Experience in financial services consumer businesses or Fintech organizations.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and continuously improve security architecture for CI/CD pipelines and DevOps toolchains, ensuring automated security checks are embedded at every stage from code commit to production deployment.
• Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Security-as-Code practices, including policy enforcement, security linting, and automated compliance validation across cloud environments.
• Lead advanced threat modeling (e.g., STRIDE-LM) for pipelines, microservices, and cloud-native applications, and conduct architecture reviews to drive adoption of secure design patterns.
• Design and deploy automated preventive and detective guardrails to proactively reduce risk across CICD pipelines, cloud and SaaS environments.
• Cultivate a security-first culture across product, technology, and business teams by providing developer-friendly tooling, training, and reusable secure patterns that accelerate rather than hinder delivery.
• Act with urgency to manage emerging security issues, monitor risk indicators, and recommend resolutions.
• Serve as the escalation point for IT Risk and Cyber domains related to DevSecOps and Change Management.
• Partner with engineering leads, product owners, and vendors to ensure effective technology risk management, translating regulatory and policy requirements into actionable, engineer-friendly controls.
• Support audit, regulatory, and risk activities by providing evidence of control effectiveness and translating compliance requirements into automated, repeatable processes.
• Identify and address unfamiliar technology components, share best practices, and influence peers to drive continuous improvement in DevSecOps maturity across the organization.

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