Director of Identity & Credential Protocols Engineering

JP Morgan Chase; New York (NY); On-site; USD 230,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase, within Card & Connected Commerce Technology, seeks a Director of Software Engineering to lead a technical area, set strategy, and drive delivery across teams, architectures, and product developments related to identity, authentication, and secure APIs.

You will mentor technologists, shape engineering roadmaps, and ensure alignment with Chase product, architecture, and security requirements while maintaining traceability to external specifications and enterprise standards.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of applied software engineering experience with leadership.
• 5+ years leading technologists to solve complex technical challenges.
• Deep experience implementing digital identity, authentication, federation, or credential exchange capabilities.
• Experience with OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect.
• Experience with secure token handling and identity protocols.
• Experience with cloud-native systems and secure APIs.
• Ability to translate requirements into architecture, implementation guidance, and technical proposals.
• Experience leading cross-functional technologists and influencing senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Senior software engineering experience

Team leadership

Identity federation

OAuth / OpenID Connect

Credential protocols

Cloud-native

Architecture translation

Job description

JPMorganChase, within Card & Connected Commerce Technology, seeks a Director of Software Engineering to lead a technical area, set strategy, and drive delivery across teams, architectures, and product developments related to identity, authentication, and secure APIs.

You will mentor technologists, shape engineering roadmaps, and ensure alignment with Chase product, architecture, and security requirements while maintaining traceability to external specifications and enterprise standards.