Director of Software Engineering - Agentic Architecture & Protocol Standards
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Job Location
Plano, TX, United States
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
Full-time
Categories
AI Agent Engineer
About the job
As a Director of Software Engineering at JPMorganChase, you will lead a technical area and drive impact across teams, technologies, and projects. You will utilize your in-depth knowledge of software, applications, technical processes, and product management to drive multiple complex projects and initiatives. This role involves serving as a primary decision-maker for your teams and a driver of innovation and solution delivery, focusing on agentic architecture and protocol standards.
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction and engineering roadmap for agent identity, delegated authorization, tool interaction, and cross-protocol security.
- Lead technical contributions to industry standards-setting organizations, translating 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.
- 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.
- Lead cross-functional technical delivery, maintain standards traceability, mentor technologists, and return engineering findings to standards development.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 10+ years of applied experience, including 5+ years leading technologists.
- 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.