JPMorgan Chase
Senior Lead Security Engineer - PKI, Cryptography
Plano, TX · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years applied experience; no alternatives stated.
- Education
- Formal training or certification on security engineering concepts.
About the job
Leads cryptography, key management, PKI, and data-protection engineering, setting strategy and controls while helping teams build and operate secure systems.
What you'll do
- Own cryptography and key-management strategy, standards, and roadmaps across platforms and applications.
- Design and deliver key-management, data-protection, and applied cryptography capabilities, including lifecycle controls and certificate automation.
- Embed security in development and operations through reusable tooling, reviews, testing, threat modeling, and cross-team guidance.
What they ask for
- Formal training or certification in security engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
- Strong system-design and applied-cryptography foundation, with demonstrated experience building secure systems and hands-on key-management experience.
- Advanced, hands-on Java experience, strong testing discipline, and secure-coding practices.
- Experience operating enterprise-grade services and leading threat modeling, vulnerability assessment, remediation, and cross-functional initiatives.
Nice to have
- Deep experience with hardware security modules and key-management service platforms.
- Experience with PKI and TLS at scale, secrets management, or post-quantum migration planning.
Tools
Java, hardware security module, key management service, public key infrastructure, transport layer security, mutual transport layer security, static and dynamic analysis, policy-as-code
AI focus
Review and validate AI-assisted security recommendations before adoption, escalate uncertainty, and ensure outcomes meet security, resiliency, and auditability expectations.
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