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# Director of Software Engineering - Digital Identity & Credential Trust Architecture

- **Company:** JPMorgan Chase & Co.
- **Location:** Wilmington, DE, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), User Authentication, Automation of Tests, Cloud Engineering, Digital Signature, Distributed Systems, Interoperability, Key Management, Metadata, Open Source Technology, Zero Trust Network Access, Software Engineering, Privacy Controls
- **Published:** November 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/director-of-software-engineering-digital-identity-credential-trust-architecture-wilmington-de--a312d640-c7d6-467b-b027-6cc6469d0534

## About the Role

Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Product Management, Multitasking, Process Management, Industry Standards, Privacy Controls, Technical Leadership, Metadata, Authentication, * 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.

## 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 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.