About the position
As an Assessments & Exercises Director at JPMorgan Chase within the Cybersecurity Technology and Controls, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and implementing the firm's technology risk management strategy. Spearhead cutting-edge security strategies and secure from start initiatives, shaping the future of cybersecurity. Leveraging your advanced knowledge and expertise in technology-risk disciplines, you will identify, oversee, and mitigate product, compliance and operational risks in line with the firm's standards. Plan, implement and execute testing engagement to proactively identify risks and vulnerabilities in strategic technology using advanced assessment methodologies and techniques. Spearhead the resolution of the most complex cyber and product risks facing the firm, drawing on your extensive experience in conducting assessments across different systems, networks, and architectures. Your ability to analyze and articulate the inner workings of complex architectures and identify risks and control gaps will enable the firm to enhance its security strategy and mitigate cyber and product risks.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement technology risk management strategies, policies, and processes to identify, assess, and mitigate risks, and drive strategic projects and initiatives to enhance the firm's technology risk management capabilities, in line with industry best practices and the firm's standards and regulatory requirements.
- Lead the successful execution of risk-driven testing and simulations - such as end to end product assessments, technical controls assessments, thematic risk analysis - and the development of comprehensive assessments reports including actionable recommendations, report to leadership assessment outcomes (including controls effectiveness and operational risk) and escalate thematic trends in observations.
- Influence and partner with cross-functional teams to make data-driven decisions that lead to continuous improvement.
- Utilize security research to stay informed about emerging threats, vulnerabilities, industry best practices, and regulations and lead engagement with internal stakeholders - to share insights and contribute to the development of cybersecurity practices.
- Identify and escalate emerging and upstream technology risk through execution of the Firm's management framework tools, including risk event management, reporting, and action plan tracking, and provide expert counsel to stakeholders and constituents regarding their security obligations, facilitating acceptable outcomes.
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including key cross-functional team leads, regulators, and auditors, to ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, and industry standards.
- Manage reporting and governance of overall controls, policies, issue management, and measurements, etc., providing insight to senior leaders into effectiveness of controls and inform governance work.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification on security concepts and 7+ years of applied experience in technology risk management, External Audit, Product risk assessments, information security, or a related field, with a focus on managing risk identification, assessment, and mitigation.
- Demonstrated expertise in risk management frameworks, industry standards, and regulatory requirements relevant to the financial industry.
- Good hands on experience with SOX, SOC1, Risk Management.
- Good understanding of the current threat landscape and resiliency concerns, national and international laws, regulations, policies, and ethics related to cybersecurity or resiliency.
- Proven ability to lead large teams, manage cross-functional projects, influence executive-level strategic decision-making, and effectively translate technology insights to business strategy in communications with senior executives.
- Advanced knowledge and experience leading data security, risk assessment & reporting, and control evaluation, design, and governance, with a track record of implementing effective risk mitigation strategies.
Nice-to-haves
- Familiarity with how the US and key international financial systems operate.
- Manager level audit experience.
- Experience with public or private Cloud technologies (Cloud Foundry, AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.) and technology platforms (ServiceNow, Jenkins, SailPoint, etc.)
