Director, Identity & Credential Protocols Engineering

Aumni; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Incentives

Health coverage

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead identity and credential platforms and set the strategic direction for authentication, federation, and secure APIs. You will influence across product, architecture, and security teams, driving multi-department initiatives and ensuring scalable, secure delivery.

As a senior engineering leader, you will mentor technologists, shape roadmaps, and deliver reference architectures while maintaining alignment with regulatory and security

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 10+ years of applied experience.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction and engineering roadmap for identity and credential protocols.
• Lead technical contributions to industry standards-setting organizations, including specification proposals and interoperability testing.
• Develop reference architectures for identity federation, authentication, credential issuance, and secure API access.
• Define interfaces and message flows connecting identity capabilities with commerce and payment use cases.
• Engineer reusable components and automated tests for protocol behavior, token handling, cryptographic validation, and interoperability.
• Evaluate specifications through prototypes, threat modeling, and analysis of security, privacy, customer experience, and operational tradeoffs.
• Partner with product architects and engineers to support adoption while product teams retain production delivery and ownership.
• Maintain traceability between external specifications, Chase requirements, architecture decisions, and engineering implementations.
• Lead cross-functional technical initiatives, mentor technologists, and communicate technical decisions and delivery priorities to senior stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Identity protocols

OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect

Security

Cloud-native

Mentoring

Tools

OpenID Connect

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead identity and credential platforms and set the strategic direction for authentication, federation, and secure APIs. You will influence across product, architecture, and security teams, driving multi-department initiatives and ensuring scalable, secure delivery.

As a senior engineering leader, you will mentor technologists, shape roadmaps, and deliver reference architectures while maintaining alignment with regulatory and security