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# Director of Software Engineering - Digital Identity & Credential Protocols

- **Company:** JPMorgan Chase & Co.
- **Location:** Plano, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $204,250.0 - $285,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Automation of Tests, Cloud Computing, Interoperability, OAuth, Open Source Technology, Openid Connect, Software Engineering
- **Published:** October 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/B050B48ED13846C09FED9925C964EF9C/job/

## About the Role

* 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 implementing digital identity, authentication, federation, or credential exchange capabilities.
 * Strong understanding of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, secure token handling, signed assertions, and identity protocol security.
 * Practical experience with credential issuance or presentation protocols, digital wallets, or comparable identity-attribute exchange systems.
 * Demonstrated delivery of working software, reference architectures, reusable components, and automated tests.
 * Experience with cloud-native systems, secure APIs, and software development lifecycle practices.
 * Ability to interpret technical specifications and translate requirements into precise architecture, implementation guidance, and technical proposals.
 * Experience leading cross-functional technologists and influencing senior product, architecture, engineering, and cybersecurity stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

 * Experience with credential issuance and presentation standards, verifiable credentials, selective-disclosure formats, or mobile document standards.
 * Experience with Financial-grade API profiles, sender-constrained tokens, FIDO2, or WebAuthn.
 * Contributions to industry specifications, open-source implementations, certification programs, or interoperability events.
 * Experience delivering identity or credential capabilities in financial services or another regulated environment.
 * Experience hiring, developing, or mentoring engineering talent.

## Description

If you are a software engineering leader ready to take the reins and drive impact, we've got an opportunity just for you., * Set the technical direction and engineering roadmap for identity and credential protocols, aligning priorities with Chase product, architecture, and security requirements.

 * Lead technical contributions to relevant industry standards-setting organizations, including specification proposals, implementation feedback, and interoperability testing.
 * Develop reference architectures and reference engineering implementations for identity federation, authentication, credential issuance and presentation, and secure API access.
 * Define implementation profiles, interface contracts, and message flows connecting identity and credential capabilities with commerce and payment use cases.
 * Engineer reusable components and automated tests for protocol behavior, token handling, cryptographic validation, and interoperability.
 * Evaluate specifications through prototypes, threat modeling, and analysis of security, privacy, customer experience, and operational tradeoffs.
 * Partner with product architects and engineers to support adoption and resolve integration issues, while product teams retain production delivery and operational ownership.
 * Maintain traceability between external specifications, Chase requirements, architecture decisions, and engineering implementations.
 * Lead cross-functional technical initiatives, mentor technologists, and communicate technical decisions and delivery priorities to senior stakeholders.