Sr Director of Security Engineering

About the role

We are hiring a Sr. Director of Security Engineering to build and lead the Cyber Security and tech controls Architecture Engineering Services (CAES) team at JPMorgan Chase. This is a people‑manager role at Senior Executive Director scope, accountable for a team with the following mandates: lead CTC Architecture Engineering Services; direct the centralized engineering organization that builds and owns every CTC Architecture software product (threat modeling platforms, architecture platforms and automation, test and quality platforms); own how its capacity gets allocated and match pooled capacity to the annual Operating Plan, portfolio priority, business value, and risk reduction in partnership with the CAES Product Director; lead a centralized engineering team built from previously independent teams, uniting software engineers from across CTC Architecture under a single organization reporting directly to CTC Architecture leadership and owning hiring, performance, and career development for the combined team; establish the CAES operating model and engineering standard, define the pod structure, delivery standards, and capacity planning process for a newly formed organization, and hold the decision on technical architecture across the portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Lead CTC Architecture Engineering Services and direct centralized software engineering execution across CTC Architecture.
• Organize software engineers into product‑aligned pods covering threat modeling platforms, architecture platforms and automation, test and quality platforms, and shared enablement across SRE, DevOps, and quality engineering.
• Hold the bar on secure‑by‑design, data protection, and operational resilience for the platforms CAES builds and runs.
• Own technical architecture decisions across the portfolio and serve as the escalation point for production incidents.
• Allocate Engineering Capacity Across the Portfolio:
  • Match pooled engineering capacity to the annual Operating Plan, portfolio priority, business value, and risk reduction.
  • Partner with the CAES Product Director to sequence development work against delivery urgency, business cases, and expected outcomes.
  • Run the allocation process product teams use to request engineering, and rebalance capacity across pods as priorities change.
  • Make delivery health and capacity utilization visible to CTC Architecture leadership.