Director of Cybersecurity Architecture

As a leader who wants to influence the future of technology, you can grow your impact by joining a world-renowned financial institution. In this role, you’ll shape cybersecurity architecture at scale—setting direction, guiding teams, and partnering across engineering and control functions to build secure, modern platforms.

As a Director of Cybersecurity Architecture at JPMorganChase within Cybersecurity Technology and Controls, you’ll lead a defined architecture area and drive outcomes across teams, technologies, and initiatives. You’ll use strong architecture and security expertise—plus practical product thinking—to make key decisions, modernize controls, and improve how risk is identified and addressed.

Job responsibilities

• Lead major technology and process implementations to deliver architecture outcomes across your domain.
• Set the strategy and operating model for developing cybersecurity architects’ skills and career growth.
• Own decisions that impact team resourcing, budget, and execution priorities across initiatives.
• Provide governance for architecture decisions, including coding/control obligations and measures like maintainability and total cost of ownership.
• Define your function’s objectives and be accountable for measurable outcomes.
• Own staffing and budget responsibilities, including relevant financial accountability.
• Champion an inclusive culture and prioritize diverse representation across hiring and team development.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification in security concepts, plus 10+ years of applied experience in cybersecurity or identity and access management (IAM).
• Experience leading teams of architects designing cybersecurity solutions for cloud-based platforms and applications.
• Depth in at least one IAM domain (IGA, Authentication/Authorization, PAM, or Cloud IAM) to guide technical discussions and support architects.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including influencing engineering partners without formal authority.
• Experience working in regulated environments (SOX, PCI-DSS, NYDFS) and partnering with compliance/audit stakeholders.
• Experience building cybersecurity products and solutions for public cloud applications and infrastructure.
• Experience developing and leading cross-functional technology teams.

• Experience hiring, developing, and recognizing talent.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in security architecture and/or threat modeling; able to understand and guide assessment work.
• Background across multiple IAM domains to enable cross-domain leadership.

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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 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.