Director of Software Engineering - Digital Identity & Credential Trust Architecture

JPMorgan Chase; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 260,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead a technical area within Card & Connected Commerce, driving impact across teams, technologies, and projects. You will be the primary decision maker on trust architectures and delivery, guiding secure credential strategies for identity and payments.

You will mentor engineers, set roadmaps, and partner with product teams to apply credential trust capabilities to identity and commerce use cases while maintaining alignment with

Qualifications

• Formal training or 10+ years of applied software engineering experience, with 5+ years leading technologists.
• Deep experience in identity security, credential systems, PKI, or federated trust.
• Strong understanding of digital signatures, cryptographic verification and key management.
• Experience with secure distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native engineering.
• Ability to communicate complex trust and privacy decisions across stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction and engineering roadmap for identity and credential trust.
• Lead contributions to industry standards organizations on credentials and privacy.
• Develop reference architectures for issuer/verifier trust and lifecycle controls.
• Define patterns for credential status, revocation, and key rotation.
• Engineer privacy-preserving credential presentation and selective disclosure.
• Differentiate credential claims, identity evidence, and authorization decisions.
• Build threat models, verification components, and automated tests.
• Partner with product architects to apply credential trust to identity, commerce, and payments.
• Maintain traceability between specs, requirements, and engineering implementations.
• Lead cross-functional delivery, mentor technologists, and report findings to standards.

Skills

Leadership

Identity security

PKI

Federated trust

Cloud-native engineering

Security standards

Cryptographic verification

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Job description

If you are a software engineering leader ready to take the reins and drive impact, we've got an opportunity just for you.

As a Director of Software Engineering at JPMorganChase within Card & Connected Commerce, you lead a technical area and drive impact within teams, technologies, and projects across departments. Utilize your in-depth knowledge of software, applications, technical processes, and product management to drive multiple complex projects and initiatives, while serving as a primary decision maker for your teams and a driver of innovation and solution delivery.

Job responsibilities

• Set the technical direction and engineering roadmap for identity and credential trust architecture, aligned with Chase business, product, and security requirements.
• Lead technical contributions to relevant industry standards-setting organizations on credentials, trust, assurance, privacy, and lifecycle controls.
• Develop reference architectures and reference engineering implementations for issuer and verifier trust, holder binding, credential verification, and assurance evaluation.
• Define patterns for credential status, expiration, revocation, key rotation, trust metadata, and lifecycle management.
• Engineer privacy-preserving approaches to credential presentation, including selective disclosure, data minimization, and mitigation of unnecessary correlation.
• Establish explicit distinctions among credential claims, identity evidence, authentication assurance, and authorization decisions.
• Build threat models, verification components, and automated tests addressing replay, substitution, compromised keys, and incorrect trust assumptions.
• Partner with product architects and engineers to apply credential trust capabilities to identity, commerce, and payment use cases, while product teams retain production delivery and operational ownership.
• Maintain traceability between specifications, Chase requirements, trust architecture decisions, and engineering implementations.
• Lead cross-functional technical delivery, mentor technologists, and return implementation and operational findings to standards development.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 10+ years of applied experience, including 5+ years leading technologists to anticipate and solve complex technical challenges.
• Deep experience in identity security, credential systems, public-key infrastructure, or federated trust architecture.
• Strong understanding of digital signatures, cryptographic verification, key management, trust relationships, and credential lifecycle controls.
• Practical experience implementing credential verification, trust evaluation, identity assurance, or comparable security capabilities.
• Ability to distinguish identity, authentication, credential evidence, and authorization in architecture and implementation.
• Demonstrated delivery of working software, reference architectures, security test assets, and technical documentation.
• Experience with secure distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native engineering.
• Ability to communicate complex trust and privacy decisions and resolve requirements across product, engineering, cybersecurity, and other accountable stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with federation protocols, credential issuance and presentation standards, verifiable credentials, or selective-disclosure mechanisms.
• Experience with wallet security, holder binding, trust chains, credential status, and verifier policy.
• Contributions to trust frameworks, industry specifications, interoperability programs, or open-source security implementations.
• Experience applying privacy and assurance requirements in financial services or another regulated environment.
• Experience hiring, developing, or mentoring engineering talent.