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# Director of Software Engineering - Agentic Architecture & Protocol Standards

- **Company:** JPMorgan Chase & Co.
- **Location:** Plano, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $204,250.0 - $285,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Reference Implementation, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Automation of Tests, Distributed Systems, OAuth, Role-Based Access Control, Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Engineering, Agentic-AI
- **Published:** October 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/C56A26C2F96E4C56BF1853E9801803A8/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 in authorization, identity protocols, distributed systems security, or secure service architecture.
 * Strong understanding of OAuth 2.0, token security, workload identity, least privilege, and policy enforcement.
 * Practical experience engineering delegated-access, service-to-service, tool-integration, or AI-agent systems.
 * Ability to distinguish identity, intent, consent, authority, and evidence in architecture and implementation.
 * Experience threat modeling impersonation, excessive authority, confused-deputy behavior, and misuse across trust boundaries.
 * Demonstrated delivery of working prototypes, reference implementations, reusable components, and automated tests.
 * Ability to interpret emerging specifications, develop precise technical proposals, and lead decisions across product, architecture, engineering, and control functions.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

 * Experience with MCP, Financial-grade API profiles, sender-constrained tokens, SPIFFE, or workload identity standards.
 * Contributions to agentic AI, identity, authorization, open-banking, or payment standards initiatives.
 * Experience with customer approval, auditable delegation, transaction authorization, or agentic commerce.
 * Experience with conformance testing, interoperability programs, or reference implementation projects.
 * 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 agent identity, delegated authorization, tool interaction, and cross-protocol security.

 * Lead technical contributions to relevant industry standards-setting organizations, translating Chase requirements into specification proposals and implementation guidance.
 * Contribute to industry reference architecture and implementation initiatives through practical engineering and validation of identity, authentication, and authorization approaches.
 * Develop reference architectures and implementations that distinguish agent identity, customer intent, delegated authority, mandates, policy decisions, and evidence.
 * Engineer patterns for bounded delegation, authority attenuation, revocation, human approval, and enforcement at service and transaction boundaries.
 * Define portable, verifiable authority and evidence flows, evaluating centralized and distributed approaches against Chase requirements rather than assuming a registry is necessary.
 * Evaluate agent and tool protocols through prototypes, interoperability tests, threat models, and cross-protocol abuse cases.
 * Connect agent interactions with payment authentication, merchant assurance, issuer authorization, and dispute-relevant evidence.
 * Partner with product architects and engineers on reusable components, interface contracts, and implementation profiles, while product teams retain production delivery and operational ownership.
 * Lead cross-functional technical delivery, maintain standards traceability, mentor technologists, and return engineering findings to standards development.