Senior Director of Software Engineering - CI&A Biometric & Externalization

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New York, NY, USA
Hybrid
Senior level
Financial Services
We’re one of the world’s biggest technology-driven companies
The Role
Leads multiple software engineering departments and technical areas, setting firmwide strategy for biometric platforms, agentic AI-enabled engineering, SDLC automation, release governance, testing, resilience, and incident response. Oversees cross-channel biometric architecture, fraud and presentation-attack defenses, identity lifecycle management, responsible biometrics, privacy, security, and operational performance. Influences executives and senior stakeholders across a complex organization while driving adoption, governance, reliability, and measurable engineering capacity improvements.
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As a Senior Director of Software Engineering at JPMorganChase within the Connected Commerce Technology organization, you lead multiple technical areas, manage the activities of multiple departments, and collaborate across technical domains. Your expertise is applied cross-functionally to drive the adoption and implementation of technical methods within various teams and aid the firm in remaining at the forefront of industry trends, best practices, and technological advances. 
 

Job Responsibilities
 
  • Leads multiple technology and process implementations across departments to achieve firmwide technology objectives
  • Directly manages multiple areas with strategic transactional focus
  • Sets and scales multi-department strategy for agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) to drive firmwide objectives (speed, scalability, reliability, and cost-to-serve), including portfolio-level standards for AI-orchestrated delivery workflows, release governance, automated test modernization, resilience engineering, and incident response acceleration; establishes guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, traceability, and reuse.
  • Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to drive cross-domain reuse and measurable capacity unlock outcomes across departments.
  • Provides leadership and high-level direction to teams while frequently overseeing employee populations across multiple platforms, divisions, and lines of business
  • Acts as the primary interface with senior leaders, stakeholders, and executives, driving consensus across competing objectives
  • Manages multiple stakeholders, complex projects, and large cross-product collaborations
  • Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams 
     
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
 
  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise 
  • Experience designing and scaling a cross-channel biometric platform (not point solutions), including common APIs/shared policy/shared telemetry with modality-specific adapters (voice/face/iris/palm), integration across IVR/telephony, mobile SDK + camera pipelines, and kiosk/branch/partner flows, with strong reliability/latency discipline (especially for IVR voice) and graceful fallback for poor capture quality.
  • Fluency in biometric ops and performance measurement (e.g., FAR/FRR, EER, TAR@FAR, FTE/FTA, drop-off, IVR AHT), with experience running A/B tests and tuning policies (step-up thresholds, risk-based routing) while protecting CX, plus a mature operating model for drift monitoring, incident response, vendor SLAs, and continuous evaluation.
  • Experience defining and implementing presentation attack detection and an adversarial threat model with a fraud-first mindset across modalities, including voice replay/deepfake resistance and call audio injection risks (noise and device/line variability), face liveness and deepfake/face-swap and injection defenses (with device integrity signals), and iris/palm considerations (sensor trust, presentation attacks, and deployment constraints such as specialized hardware and environmental requirements).
  • Knowledge of responsible biometrics practices, including bias/fairness evaluation and mitigation across demographics/environments (capture UX, thresholds, alternative paths), accessibility requirements for customers unable to use a modality, and privacy/regulatory readiness for biometric data (e.g., retention controls and purpose limitation).
  • Experience engineering end-to-end identity lifecycle for biometrics—secure enrollment (proofing strength, step-up, dedupe, re-enrollment rules), strong binding to the correct account/device/session with change handling (new device, biometric drift/injury/aging), secure recovery that avoids lockouts, and clear consent/transparency with data-minimization practices.
  • Demonstrated prior experience influencing across highly matrixed, complex organizations and delivering value at scale
  • Experience leading multi-organization adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering operating models (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment), including defining governance (human-in-the-loop decisioning, quality gates), measurement frameworks, and secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs across teams.
  • Deep understanding of responsible AI risk, controls, and resiliency/security expectations at scale, with demonstrated ability to advise senior leaders on safe adoption, portfolio governance, and reuse-first strategies.
  • Experience leading complex projects supporting system design, testing, and operational stability


Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

 

 

About Us

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs. 

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans

About the TeamOur Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We’re proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions – all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.

Skills Required

  • Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
  • 10+ years of applied software engineering experience
  • 5+ years leading technologists managing complex technical issues
  • Experience designing and scaling cross-channel biometric platforms with shared APIs, policies, telemetry, and modality-specific adapters
  • Experience integrating biometric systems across IVR, telephony, mobile SDKs, camera pipelines, kiosks, branches, and partner flows
  • Fluency in biometric operations and performance metrics including FAR, FRR, EER, TAR@FAR, FTE, FTA, drop-off, and IVR AHT
  • Experience running A/B tests and tuning biometric policies and risk-based routing
  • Experience with drift monitoring, incident response, vendor SLAs, and continuous biometric evaluation
  • Experience defining presentation attack detection and adversarial threat models across biometric modalities
  • Experience with voice replay, deepfake, call audio injection, face liveness, face-swap, injection, iris, and palm attack defenses
  • Knowledge of responsible biometrics, bias and fairness evaluation, accessibility, privacy, retention controls, and purpose limitation
  • Experience engineering secure biometric identity enrollment, deduplication, re-enrollment, account and device binding, recovery, consent, and data minimization
  • Demonstrated experience influencing across highly matrixed organizations and delivering value at scale
  • Experience leading adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering operating models with governance, human-in-the-loop controls, quality gates, measurement, and secure data handling
  • Deep understanding of responsible AI risk, controls, resiliency, and security expectations at scale
  • Experience leading complex projects involving system design, testing, and operational stability

JPMorganChase Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about JPMorganChase and has not been reviewed or approved by JPMorganChase.

  • Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is considered comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision, alongside wellness and mental health resources. Some locations add onsite health centers and related wellbeing support.
  • Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k)-type savings plan and related financial benefits, with options such as employee stock purchase participation. Financial planning resources are also highlighted to support long-term savings.
  • Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave of 16 weeks for birth or adoption is available for all parents. Child care and back-up child care resources further reinforce family support.

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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
289,097 Employees
Year Founded: 1799

What We Do

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products. Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com. ©2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.

Why Work With Us

Our technologists work on a diverse range of solutions that include strategic technology initiatives, big data, mobile, electronic payments, machine learning, cybersecurity, enterprise cloud development, and other state-of-the-art technologies.

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