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.
• 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.