Tech Risk and Controls Director-PCI

Join our team to play a pivotal role in mitigating tech risks and upholding operational excellence, driving innovation in risk management.

As a Tech Risk & Controls Director at JPMorgan Chase within the Cybersecurity Technology and Controls, you will be responsible for ensuring adherence to the PCI DSS while driving transformation, automation, and control maturity across all cardholder data environments (CDE) and related technology systems. As a critical control risk function within the firm, this leader will partner with technology, product, audit, and compliance stakeholders to embed PCI controls at scale, maintain year-round compliance, and reduce regulatory/contractual and reputational risk. If you are a passionate and driven leader with a strong background in cybersecurity and PCI, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity at JPMC.

Job responsibilities

• Developand drive a multi-year PCI DSS strategy aligned with enterprise technology modernization (leveraging GenAI tools and engineering forward processes), regulatory/contractual expectations, and business objectives.
• Serve as the PCI authority across the organization, translating technical and regulatory requirements into executable and auditable programs.
• Lead all phases of the PCI lifecycle, including planning, risk-based assessment execution, evidence management, control validation, compliance reporting, corrective action, and remediation.
• Manage annual and ad-hoc assessments, including self-assessment questionnaires (SAQs), Reports on Compliance (ROCs), and attestation deliverables in partnership with external Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs).
• Establish and maintain a PCI scope governance model leveraging modern tooling such as asset inventory, data discovery, and tagging.
• Chair the PCI steering committee and provide regular updates to executive stakeholders, risk committees, and regulators as needed.
• Build trusted partnerships with LOB Leaders which includes CIOs, CTOs, BISO and Business application teams, Business Information Security Officers, Infrastructure, Cloud, and Product teams to ensure control implementation and accountability.
• Build and lead a global PCI team, including compliance analysts and technical program managers.
• Modernize the PCI program with automation, evidence orchestration platforms, self-service attestations, and control-as-code frameworks.

• Formal training or certification on security concepts and 10+years of applied experience with PCI DSS, and other Regulatory frameworks.
• Deep expertise in implementing PCI requirements (v 4.0) across large scale complex organizations.
• Proficient in designing and implementing security controls for cloud environments. (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Hands-on experience with security assessment tools, data discovery tools, threat models and penetration testing methodologies.
• Experience working in finance or another highly regulated industry.
• Proficiency with AI/ML models, large data sets, control plane and network segmentation techniques to drive efficiencies for CHD.

• Current or Prior PCI QSA/ISA certification.
• Understanding of regulatory requirements such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2 leveraging NIST 800-53, NIST AI- RMF and possess CISSP, CISM, or other relevant certifications.
• Knowledge of process-focused methodologies for IT related activities (Change Management, Incident Management, and SDLC).
• IT Risk and Process frameworks such as COSO, COBIT, NIST, Cybersecurity Horizontal reviews, ITIL.