Director of Software Engineering - Unified Ingress

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JP Morgan Chase seeks a software engineering leader to take end-to-end ownership of the platform delivery, driving standards, architecture reviews, and cross-team collaboration across infrastructure, network, and security domains.

You will chair design reviews for gateway and session management, align platforms with reference architectures, and oversee migrations of legacy components while maintaining production readiness and observability.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of industry experience, including 4+ years leading engineering teams.
• Proven track record managing teams of 15+ engineers across multiple workstreams.
• Strong hands-on grounding in ingress and gateway tech: Envoy or Kong.
• Experience with OAuth 2.0 / OIDC / PKCE flows and mTLS concepts.
• Production Kubernetes experience and GitOps delivery (ArgoCD/Helm).
• Go development background for reviewing control-plane code and design discussions.
• Experience partnering with enterprise Architecture and infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end delivery plan for the platform across workstreams.
• Set and enforce engineering standards including reviews, testing, docs, and observability.
• Chair technical design reviews for gateway, control plane, and session management.
• Collaborate with enterprise Architecture to align with reference architectures.
• Partner with Infrastructure, Network, Cybersecurity, and Identity teams on dependencies.
• Lead the migration and decommissioning of legacy auth proxies and agents.
• Drive delivery cadence: sprint planning, backlog grooming, risk management, capacity planning.

Tools

Envoy Proxy

Kong API Gateway

Open Policy Agent (OPA)

Kubernetes (EKS/on-prem)

ArgoCD

Helm

Go

OIDC/OAuth 2.0/PKCE

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.

Job responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end delivery plan for the platform - milestones, dependencies, critical path, and committed dates across all workstreams
• Set and enforce engineering standards - code review, testing, documentation, observability-first design, and production readiness criteria
• Chair technical design reviews for the gateway, control plane, and session management components, and make architectural decisions where the team needs a call
• Partner with enterprise Architecture groups to align the platform to reference architectures, secure design approvals, and represent the platform in architecture forums
• Partner with Infrastructure, Network, Cybersecurity, and Identity (AuthE / Sentry) teams to sequence and unblock shared dependencies including DNS, CDN/WAF, certificates, perimeter policy, and identity provider integration
• Drive the LOB migration program - onboarding sequencing, cutover planning, rollback readiness, and decommissioning of legacy authentication Web Agents and Apache proxies
• Run an efficient delivery cadence - sprint planning, backlog grooming, dependency tracking, risk and issue management, and capacity planning against roadmap commitments

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 12+ years of industry experience, including 4+ years leading engineering teams
• Proven track record managing teams of 15+ engineers across multiple concurrent workstreams, including line management, performance management, hiring, and mentoring
• Strong hands‑on technical grounding in ingress and gateway technology - Envoy Proxy (xDS/ADS, ext_authz, HTTP/2, gRPC) and/or Kong API Gateway - sufficient to lead design reviews and challenge implementation decisions credibly
• Working depth in OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect (OIDC) / Proof Key for Code Exchange (PKCE) flows, Demonstrating Proof of Possession (DPoP) sender-constrained tokens, mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS), and session management patterns
• Production Kubernetes experience (Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and/or on-prem clusters) and GitOps delivery models (ArgoCD, Helm)
• Go development background sufficient to review control-plane code, set engineering standards, and participate in design discussions
• Experience partnering with enterprise Architecture functions - representing designs in architecture review forums, aligning to reference architectures, and negotiating exceptions
• Experience partnering with Infrastructure, Network, and Cybersecurity teams on shared dependencies such as DNS, CDN/WAF, certificate lifecycle, firewall policy, and perimeter change management

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Financial services or other regulated-industry experience, including regulatory and audit engagement
• Experience running a migration program that decommissions legacy infrastructure while traffic is live
• Familiarity with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and policy-as-code authorization models
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, and Splunk Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) toolchains
• Background in identity platforms (ForgeRock, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) federation, token exchange patterns)