Director of Software Eng: Agent Identity & Protocols

Aumni; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 180,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase seeks a software engineering leader to drive impact as Director of Software Engineering within Card & Connected Commerce Technology, guiding teams across multiple projects and serving as a primary decision maker.

You will set technical direction, mentor engineers, contribute to standards, and deliver secure, scalable architectures for agent identity, delegated authorization, and cross-protocol security.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of applied software engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading technologists to solve complex technical challenges.
• Deep experience in authorization, identity protocols, distributed systems security, or secure service architecture.
• Strong understanding of OAuth 2.0, token security, workload identity, least privilege, and policy enforcement.
• Practical experience engineering delegated-access, service-to-service, tool-integration, or AI-agent systems.
• Ability to distinguish identity, intent, consent, authority, and evidence in architecture and implementation.
• Experience threat modeling impersonation, excessive authority, confused-deputy behavior, and misuse across trust boundaries.
• Proven delivery of working prototypes, reference implementations, reusable components, and automated tests.
• Ability to interpret emerging specifications and lead decisions across product, architecture, engineering, and control functions.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction and engineering roadmap for agent identity, delegated authorization, tool interaction, and cross-protocol security.
• Lead contributions to relevant industry standards-setting organizations, translating Chase requirements into specification proposals and implementation guidance.
• Contribute to industry reference architecture and implementation initiatives through practical engineering and validation of identity, authentication, and authorization approaches.
• Develop reference architectures and implementations that distinguish agent identity, customer intent, delegated authority, mandates, policy decisions, and evidence.
• Engineer patterns for bounded delegation, authority attenuation, revocation, human approval, and enforcement at service and transaction boundaries.
• Define portable, verifiable authority and evidence flows, evaluating centralized and distributed approaches against Chase requirements rather than assuming a registry is necessary.
• Evaluate agent and tools protocols through prototypes, interoperability tests, threat models, and cross-protocol abuse cases.
• Connect agent interactions with payment authentication, merchant assurance, issuer authorization, and dispute-relevant evidence.
• Partner with product architects and engineers on reusable components, interface contracts, and implementation profiles, while product teams retain production delivery and operational ownership.
• Lead cross-functional technical delivery, maintain standards traceability, mentor technologists, and return engineering findings to standards development.

Skills

Leadership experience

Authorization protocols

Distributed systems security

OAuth 2.0

Policy enforcement

Delegated-access / service-to-service

Threat modeling

Prototyping & automated tests

Specification interpretation & lead决策

Job description

JPMorganChase seeks a software engineering leader to drive impact as Director of Software Engineering within Card & Connected Commerce Technology, guiding teams across multiple projects and serving as a primary decision maker.

You will set technical direction, mentor engineers, contribute to standards, and deliver secure, scalable architectures for agent identity, delegated authorization, and cross-protocol security.