JPMorgan Chase
Director of Software Engineering - Digital Identity & Credential Protocols
$204K–$285K
Plano, TX +3 · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Location
- Plano, TX
New York, NY
Columbus, OH
Wilmington, DE - Experience
- 10+ years of applied experience, including 5+ years leading technologists.
- Education
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
About the job
Leads engineering direction and cross-functional initiatives for digital identity and credential protocols, developing architectures, implementations, and interoperability guidance for commerce and payment use cases.
What you'll do
- Set the technical direction and roadmap for identity and credential protocols; align priorities with product, architecture, and security requirements.
- Develop reference architectures, reusable components, automated tests, and implementation guidance for identity and credential capabilities.
- Lead standards contributions and cross-functional initiatives; evaluate security, privacy, customer experience, and operational tradeoffs.
What they ask for
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
- 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.
- Demonstrated delivery of working software, reference architectures, reusable components, and automated tests.
Nice to have
- Experience with credential standards, verifiable credentials, selective-disclosure formats, or mobile document standards.
- Experience with Financial-grade API profiles, sender-constrained tokens, FIDO2, WebAuthn, or industry specifications and interoperability events.
Pay
$204,250.00-$285,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, Financial-grade API, FIDO2, WebAuthn
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