JPMorgan Chase
Director of Software Engineering - Unified Ingress
$176K–$285K
Jersey City, NJ +3 · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- Jersey City, NJ
Palo Alto, CA
Houston, TX
Chicago, IL - Experience
- 12+ years of industry experience, including 4+ years leading engineering teams.
About the job
Leads delivery and production adoption of a centralized CIB ingress platform, managing a 20+ engineer team and the migration from legacy authentication and proxy infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Own the end-to-end delivery plan, engineering standards, technical design reviews, and delivery cadence across workstreams.
- Coordinate architecture and infrastructure dependencies with Architecture, Network, Cybersecurity, and Identity teams.
- Lead LOB onboarding, cutovers, rollback readiness, and decommissioning of legacy authentication Web Agents and Apache proxies.
What they ask for
- 12+ years of industry experience, including 4+ years leading engineering teams.
- Track record managing teams of 15+ engineers across concurrent workstreams, including line management, performance management, hiring, and mentoring.
- Hands-on grounding in Envoy Proxy and/or Kong API Gateway; working depth in OAuth 2.0, OIDC, PKCE, DPoP, mTLS, and session management.
- Production Kubernetes and GitOps experience, Go development background, and experience partnering with enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, Network, and Cybersecurity teams.
Nice to have
- Financial services or other regulated-industry experience; experience migrating live traffic off legacy infrastructure.
- Familiarity with OPA, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, Splunk SIEM, or identity platforms including ForgeRock and SAML federation.
Pay
Jersey City,NJ $204,250.00-$285,000.00 USD base salary; Palo Alto,CA $204,250.00-$285,000.00 USD base salary; Chicago,IL $175,750.00-$260,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
Envoy Proxy, Kong API Gateway, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm, Go
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