Senior Director, Auth & IAM Platform Engineering

JPMorganChase; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

On-site wellness centers

Retirement savings plan

Backup childcare

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Financial coaching

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering AuthE Global to lead multiple technical areas within the Chief Technology Office and Identity & Access Management. You will guide enterprise authentication capabilities, oversee full-stack architecture, and drive secure, scalable, and high-availability solutions across divisions.

You will mentor globally distributed engineering teams, set multi-department strategy for AI-enabled engineering, and partner with Product, Ops, Risk,

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts with 10+ years of applied experience.
• In addition, 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within the domain.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the engineering strategy for mission-critical, high-volume customer authentication platforms with strict availability targets.
• Serve as a firmwide senior technology advisor on Customer Authentication and IAM strategy.
• Provide enterprise-level technical leadership and architectural governance for customer authentication platforms, leveraging standards-based protocols (OIDC, SAML2, FIDO2).
• Own and evolve full-stack architecture across application, data, and infrastructure layers (Java services, APIs, databases, messaging, and supporting infrastructure).
• Review and validate solution designs to ensure security, scalability, resiliency, and performance across development, test, and production environments.
• Drive execution across multiple concurrent enterprise initiatives, managing delivery priorities, dependencies, and technical risk.
• Make decisions impacting resourcing, budget, tactical operations, and the implementation of processes and procedures.
• Partner with Product, Operations, Risk, and Lines of Business to align authentication capabilities with business strategy, regulatory expectations, and customer experience goals.
• Lead and mentor globally distributed senior engineering teams, building a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Sets and scales multi-department strategy for agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation to drive firmwide objectives, including standards for AI-orchestrated delivery workflows, release governance, automated test modernization, resilience engineering, and incident response acceleration; establishes guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, traceability, and reuse.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to drive cross-domain reuse and measurable capacity unlock outcomes across departments.

Education

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts (10+ years applied experience)

Tools

Java

APIs

Databases

Messaging

Cloud/On-Prem Infrastructure

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering AuthE Global to lead multiple technical areas within the Chief Technology Office and Identity & Access Management. You will guide enterprise authentication capabilities, oversee full-stack architecture, and drive secure, scalable, and high-availability solutions across divisions.

You will mentor globally distributed engineering teams, set multi-department strategy for AI-enabled engineering, and partner with Product, Ops, Risk,