Senior Lead Cybersecurity Architect -IAM, Golang

Take your engineering expertise to new heights by joining a team of exceptionally talented professionals and solidify your place among top performers in the industry.

As a Principal Cybersecurity Architect at JPMorganChase within the Cybersecurity Technology and Controls, you provide expertise to enhance and develop architecture platforms based on modern cloud-based technologies as well as support the adoption of strategic global solutions. Leverage your advanced architecture capabilities to identify, communicate, and mitigate risk, and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes.

Job responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain complex, scalable, and reusable software frameworks, ensuring they meet industry standards for reliability, efficiency, and performance.
• Lead the creation and adoption of coding patterns and best practices across the organization’s development community, driving standardization and consistency.
• Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate cybersecurity architecture analysis, threat/risk assessment, and roadmap decisioning, validating outputs and handling data according to sensitivity and security requirements.
• Architect and implement robust, secure, and high-performance frameworks for both cloud and on-premises environments, leveraging cloud-native services (e.g., AWS).
• Provide technical thought leadership, staying abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to guide the team and organization.
• Identify existing drawbacks, gaps, and inefficiencies in frameworks, processes, and practices; proactively recommend and implement improvements.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and advisor on technological matters, influencing technical decisions and strategy across business, product, and technology teams.
• Lead proof-of-concept (POC) initiatives to evaluate new technologies and methodologies for potential adoption.
• Implement and manage IAM protocols and standards such as RBAC, OAuth2.0, SCIM, Authentication, WebAuthN, Authorization, OPA, and PBAC.
• Drives reuse-first adoption of AI-assisted security validation within SDLC/toolchain routines, improving control testing and remediation quality with traceability/auditability and resiliency expectations.
• Apply advanced security principles, including encryption, data security, and risk management, to all IAM solutions and processes.
• Stay abreast of emerging IAM technologies and security trends, recommending and implementing improvements to enhance security posture.
• Drive innovation by exploring and integrating cutting-edge technologies (e.g., cloud, streaming) into frameworks and products.  Mentor and guide engineering teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence, and talent development.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts, with 10+ years of applied experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability, and strong focus on IAM architecture and implementation.
• Demonstrated success in leading large-scale IAM projects in complex environments.
• Deep expertise in software development using Java, Python, Node, or Golang.
• Deep understanding of encryption, data security, and risk management and expertise in IAM principles: RBAC, OAuth2.0, SCIM, Authentication, WebAuthN, Authorization, OPA, PBAC.
• Proven experience building performant, scalable, and reliable microservices and frameworks for both cloud (AWS) and on-premises deployments.
• Advanced knowledge of API design, development, and security, with hands-on experience in enterprise-grade API solutions and proficiency in Relational database skills, including SQL, data modeling, and experience with high availability database architectures.
• Advanced knowledge and hands-on experience with streaming technologies (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.) and s strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native development (AWS Lambda, ECS, S3, Aurora, API Gateway), and DevOps practices.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically, develop and execute technical strategies, and drive organizational objectives.  Ability to communicate effectively and present technical concepts to senior leaders and executives.

 Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Strategic thinker with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Commitment to continuous learning and professional development.

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