Director of Software Engineering - Unified Ingress

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 JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB) Unified Ingress platform, you will be accountable for delivering the centralized ingress layer that handles authentication, authorization, traffic management, and observability for all Corporate & Investment Bank digital channels..

You will manage a team of 20+ engineers across gateway, control plane, identity integration, and platform operations, and owns the delivery plan through to full production adoption and legacy decommissioning.

you will consolidate all external traffic through a standardized seven-layer stack (Domain Name System (DNS) steering, Content Delivery Network / Web Application Firewall (CDN/WAF), perimeter, gateway, authentication, authorization, observability) managed via a single control plane.

The platform build, the LOB migration program, and production hardening now run in parallel across a team of 20+ engineers spanning gateway, control plane, identity, and platform operations workstreams.

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 ...