Cyber Intelligence Vice President, Threat Intelligence

Harness your expertise to shape robust cybersecurity strategies and safeguard critical assets. Your leadership will be pivotal in enhancing our resilience against evolving global cyber threats.

As a Cybersecurity Intelligence Vice President in Cybersecurity & Tech Controls, you will play a critical role in safeguarding the firm’s digital assets and infrastructure from cyber threats. Responsible for identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks, you will inform and influence control measures across the organization. Your expertise in analyzing complex issues and developing innovative solutions, along with your ability to collaborate with diverse teams, will be crucial in enhancing the firm’s security posture. As a subject matter expert, you will contribute to strategic cybersecurity initiatives and continuously improve our threat detection and response capabilities. Your work significantly impacts the firm’s operations, fiscal management, public image, employee morale, and client relationships.

Job responsibilities

• Implement proactive threat intelligence strategies using advanced analytics and emerging technologies to identify and mitigate risks
• Research and develop novel methodologies and capabilities to uncover unique threat intelligence, working with large data sets using data analysis tools and/or programming languages. Innovation is key
• Hunt and track groups of highly sophisticated threat actors, and their current and evolving tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs), using open and closed source tools
• Maintain detailed threat actor profiles on adversaries of interest/relevance to the firm and wider financial industry, covering TTPs, intent, goals, and strategic objectives
• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, sharing threat intelligence and best practices to achieve operational goals and improve cybersecurity operations
• Track and understand the wider global, technology, and geopolitical landscapes, and assess their influence on cyber threats and security opportunities, particularly within the financial industry

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or related disciplines
• 5+ years of experience in Cyber Threat Intelligence, Red Team, or other relevant experience in data-intensive Cyber Operations disciplines
• Foundational understanding of cybersecurity concepts, common enterprise IT infrastructure components, operating system internals, logging mechanisms and networking.
• Data acumen – ability to efficiently interrogate large amount of data, and extract intelligence from semi- or un-structured data. This includes automating data collection and processing using analytical tools and/or scripting languages (e.g. Python).
• Adoption of an always-improving and efficient mindset; leveraging repeatable query syntax or automating repeatable security tasks
• Demonstrated knowledge or keen interest in prominent cyber threat actor groups, campaigns and TTPs
• Experience employing objective analysis and effectively communicating (written and verbal) findings to both technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Having technical curiosity towards all things Cyber; always experimenting, always innovating
• Knowledge and experience in hands-on offensive security techniques
• Experience in implementing software systems for big data collection, ingestion, and processing
• Experience in the intelligence community / an international institution conducting cyber or security / intelligence related work, that includes direct use of the intelligence lifecycle, intelligence requirements, etc.

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.