Senior Lead Cybersecurity Architect-Database Security

Senior Lead Cybersecurity Architect

Join a team where you can play a crucial role in shaping the future of a world-renowned company and make a direct and meaningful impact in a space designed for top performers.

As a Senior Lead Cybersecurity Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Cybersecurity Technology and Controls, you will serve as the threat modeling subject matter expert and security architecture leader for database platforms. You'll work alongside architects focused on public cloud databases and controls optimization to ensure database solutions are secure by design. This is a senior technical leadership role requiring deep expertise in database internals, threat modeling methodologies, and security architecture patterns. You'll influence product teams, drive controls development, and serve as a key escalation point for complex database security challenges.

Job responsibilities

• Lead structured threat modeling for database platforms and data flows, identifying attack surfaces, misuse/abuse cases, and risk scenarios
• Integrate threat modeling into the SDLC and design review processes for database products
• Conduct security architecture reviews for new database deployments, migrations, and major changes
• Develop and optimize database security controls aligned with risk reduction outcomes
• Evaluate and solution for emerging security requirements including MCP (Model Context Protocol) and post-quantum cryptography (PQC) for database encryption
• Establish, maintain, and govern database security standards and baselines using STIGs, CIS Benchmarks, and industry best practices.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and escalation point for IT Risk and Cyber domains related to database security
• Proactively monitor KRIs to identify, quantify, communicate, and manage issues with recommended resolutions
• Collaborate on audit and regulatory engagements, risk activities, and project initiatives

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on security concepts and 10+ years of applied of experience in database technologies, with 5+ years focused on database security architecture
• Deep expertise in at least two database platforms: Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, or cloud-native databases
• Demonstrated threat modeling experience: STRIDE, attack trees, or equivalent methodologies applied to database and data flow scenarios
• Strong understanding of database security controls: encryption at rest/in transit, access controls, audit logging, masking/tokenization, network segmentation
• Experience with STIGs and CIS Benchmarks for database hardening; hands-on experience publishing and tracking standards and ability to translate threat modeling findings into actionable control requirements for engineering teams
• Experience in a regulated environment with a 3LoD (Line of Defense) model; financial services, healthcare, or similar
• Experience with NoSQL database security: Cassandra, MongoDB, DynamoDB security patterns
• Familiarity with cloud database security: AWS RDS/Aurora, Azure SQL/Cosmos DB, GCP Cloud SQL security configurations
• Knowledge of emerging cryptographic requirements including post-quantum cryptography (PQC) readiness for database encryption
• Experience with AI/ML data security: securing training data, model outputs, and vector databases

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with NoSQL database security: Cassandra, MongoDB, DynamoDB security patterns
• Familiarity with cloud database security: AWS RDS/Aurora, Azure SQL/Cosmos DB, GCP Cloud SQL security configurations
• Knowledge of emerging cryptographic requirements including post-quantum cryptography (PQC) readiness for database encryption
• Experience with AI/ML data security: securing training data, model outputs, and vector databases
• Relevant certifications: CISSP, CISSP-ISSAP, database vendor certifications (Oracle OCP, AWS Database Specialty, etc.)
• Background in financial services consumer businesses (Mortgages, Cards, Digital) preferred