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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Banking’s Customer Identity Platform team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted, market-leading identity and onboarding solutions in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You will play a key role in designing and delivering a shared identity platform that supports customer onboarding, identity verification, and trust services across multiple products and lines of business.
Job responsibilities
- Design and deliver secure, scalable software solutions that support customer identity, onboarding, and trust services across platforms
- Develop and maintain a canonical customer identity model to enable consistent identity representation across systems
- Build and manage services that support the end-to-end identity lifecycle, including enrollment, verification, remediation, and offboarding
- Integrate identity proofing and verification vendors through abstracted APIs to enable flexible and scalable onboarding capabilities
- Develop and refine trust and risk signal services that support fraud detection and identity assurance decisions
- Design and implement event-driven architectures and APIs that enable seamless interoperability across distributed systems
- Partner with product, risk, and technology teams to translate regulatory and business requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Ensure continuity of identity experience across digital and assisted channels (e.g., web, mobile, branch, call center)
- Identify opportunities to improve platform performance, scalability, and reliability through automation and engineering best practices
- Contribute to engineering communities of practice by sharing knowledge and promoting modern technologies and standards
- Promote a culture of collaboration, inclusion, and continuous learning
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years of applied experience
- Hands-on experience designing and building scalable, distributed systems and APIs in a cloud-based environment
- Experience developing identity, authentication, or customer onboarding systems
- Strong understanding of event-driven architecture and messaging frameworks (e.g., Kafka)
- Experience working with identity and access management (IAM) platforms or solutions
- Experience integrating third-party services or vendors through API-based architectures
- Hands-on experience translating business or regulatory requirements into technical solutions
- Experience working in agile environments with modern software development lifecycle practices
- Proficiency in designing high-availability, resilient systems with a focus on reliability and performance
- Experience collaborating across cross-functional teams to deliver enterprise-scale solutions
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Experience with identity assurance frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-63)
- Experience with identity proofing or KYC platforms (e.g., Socure, Jumio)
- Experience designing trust scoring or risk signal platforms
- Knowledge of omnichannel customer identity systems across digital and assisted channels
- Experience in highly regulated environments such as financial services
- Experience influencing platform strategy and shared service adoption across large organizations
- Experience improving developer experience through reusable platform components and service contracts