Director of Software Engineering - Digital Identity & Credential Trust Architecture

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.
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