Third-Party Cyber Security Architect

The Cybersecurity and Technology Controls Assurance organisation is comprised of highly skilled and passionate cybersecurity professionals whose mission is to create a shared understanding of firmwide tech, data and cyber risk enabling our business and customers to make risk-informed decisions. We are seeking an energetic, accomplished, and motivated Cybersecurity Assessor to join our Third-Party Assurance team.

Job Summary:

As a Vice President - Third-Party Cyber Security Architect within the Cybersecurity and Technology Controls Assurance organisation, you will play a crucial role in assessing the health and security of JPMC’s Third-Party suppliers. You will identify risks and gaps in their control maturity, evaluate suppliers’ infrastructure, application and control environments, and provide transparency into the cyber resilience, recoverability and operational/data risks associated with key relationships. This role offers the opportunity to engage with various stakeholders, requiring excellent leadership skills and the ability to navigate complex organisations and build relationships across Business and Technology teams. Your work will have a critical impact on our company, as well as our clients and our business partners around the world.

Job responsibilities:

• Partner effectively with third-party SME’s to conduct detailed evaluations of security controls and practises to identify and articulate risks and gaps in security posture to key stakeholders
• Assess suppliers compliance with cybersecurity standards and exposure to industry risks, provide insights into corrective actions and mitigations that will help to strengthen cyber resilience.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement throughout the assessment lifecycle, delivering operational efficiencies and improving supplier assurance
• Providing guidance and advice to Business, Technology and Third-Party supplier groups on cybersecurity best practise
• Support development of supplier risk metrics to articulate the efficacy of suppliers security arrangements
• Participate in thematic analysis, identifying trends/common issues in supplier security posture
• Partner with Product Security, Tech Risk & Controls and Risk Pillar leads to raise awareness and drive improvements in Third-Party control implementations
• Develop and deliver education/best practices with peers and colleagues, as well as third parties
• Escalate issues associated with suppliers as needed.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Strong experience in cybersecurity in either control delivery, operations or assessment capabilities
• Deep understanding of Key Cybersecurity principles and control implementations that mitigate common threat actor techniques (Email, Network, Endpoint, Resiliency & Recovery (incl. response plans), Monitoring, End User Awareness, vulnerability management, Identity and Access Management)
• Understanding of industry risk frameworks (ISO27001, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, etc.)
• Ability to clearly translate and communicate cyber risk via written, verbal and presentation formats to a variety of stakeholders in Cyber, Technology and the Business
• Able to collaborate and navigate organisational levels/boundaries to develop improvement plans and recommended mitigations
• Highly Analytical, tenacious and inquisitive mindset
• Self-starter with drive to deliver results and continuous improvement mindset
• Process engineering and re-engineering skills.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• CISSP, CISA, CISM, CCSP or CRISC certification is a plus
• Background in Product Security, Incident Response, Technology/Cyber Audit