Director of Software Engineering - Unified Ingress

About the job

If you are a software engineering leader ready to take the reins and drive impact, we’ve got an opportunity just for you.

As a Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB) Unified Ingress platform, you will be accountable for delivering the centralized ingress layer that handles authentication, authorization, traffic management, and observability for all Corporate & Investment Bank digital channels.. You will manage a team of 20+ engineers across gateway, control plane, identity integration, and platform operations, and owns the delivery plan through to full production adoption and legacy decommissioning. you will consolidate all external traffic through a standardized seven-layer stack (Domain Name System (DNS) steering, Content Delivery Network / Web Application Firewall (CDN/WAF), perimeter, gateway, authentication, authorization, observability) managed via a single control plane. The platform build, the LOB migration program, and production hardening now run in parallel across a team of 20+ engineers spanning gateway, control plane, identity, and platform operations workstreams.

Job responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end delivery plan for the platform - milestones, dependencies, critical path, and committed dates across all workstreams
• Set and enforce engineering standards - code review, testing, documentation, observability-first design, and production readiness criteria
• Chair technical design reviews for the gateway, control plane, and session management components, and make architectural decisions where the team needs a call
• Partner with enterprise Architecture groups to align the platform to reference architectures, secure design approvals, and represent the platform in architecture forums
• Partner with Infrastructure, Network, Cybersecurity, and Identity (AuthE / Sentry) teams to sequence and unblock shared dependencies including DNS, CDN/WAF, certificates, perimeter policy, and identity provider integration
• Drive the LOB migration program - onboarding sequencing, cutover planning, rollback readiness, and decommissioning of legacy authentication Web Agents and Apache proxies
• Run an efficient delivery cadence - sprint planning, backlog grooming, dependency tracking, risk and issue management, and capacity planning against roadmap commitments

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 12+ years of industry experience, including 4+ years leading engineering teams
• Proven track record managing teams of 15+ engineers across multiple concurrent workstreams, including line management, performance management, hiring, and mentoring
• Strong hands-on technical grounding in ingress and gateway technology - Envoy Proxy (xDS/ADS, ext_authz, HTTP/2, gRPC) and/or Kong API Gateway - sufficient to lead design reviews and challenge implementation decisions credibly
• Working depth in OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect (OIDC) / Proof Key for Code Exchange (PKCE) flows, Demonstrating Proof of Possession (DPoP) sender-constrained tokens, mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS), and session management patterns
• Production Kubernetes experience (Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and/or on-prem clusters) and GitOps delivery models (ArgoCD, Helm)
• Go development background sufficient to review control-plane code, set engineering standards, and participate in design discussions
• Experience partnering with enterprise Architecture functions - representing designs in architecture review forums, aligning to reference architectures, and negotiating exceptions
• Experience partnering with Infrastructure, Network, and Cybersecurity teams on shared dependencies such as DNS, CDN/WAF, certificate lifecycle, firewall policy, and perimeter change management

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Financial services or other regulated-industry experience, including regulatory and audit engagement
• Experience running a migration program that decommissions legacy infrastructure while traffic is live
• Familiarity with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and policy-as-code authorization models
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, and Splunk Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) toolchains
• Background in identity platforms (ForgeRock, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) federation, token exchange patterns)

About Us

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.

Additional Information

• Job Identification: 210799211
• Job Category: Software Engineering
• Posting Date: 2026-10-28
• Job Schedule: Full time
• Locations: 545 Washington Blvd, Jersey City, NJ, 07310, US ()
• Base Pay/Salary: Jersey City,NJ $204,250.00-$285,000.00; Palo Alto,CA $204,250.00-$285,000.00; Chicago,IL $175,750.00-$260,000.00