Senior Director/Director of Engineering in Risk and Performance

WHAT MAKES US, US

Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp!

At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.

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WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US 

The Senior Director/Director of Engineering is a member of the senior leadership team, responsible for guiding the technical vision, engineering strategy, and execution across the organization. This role leads large, distributed engineering teams across the Risk and Performance domains and drives innovation while ensuring the delivery of secure, high-quality, and customer-centric software solutions.

As a strategic and operational leader, the Senior Director/Director partners closely with Product, Design, and Business stakeholders to align engineering efforts with company goals. The role requires a strong emphasis on technical excellence, organizational leadership, and cross-functional collaboration to support the company's growth and transformation.

The Senior Director/Director of Engineering owns multiple product areas, with a span of responsibility across the Risk and Performance domains. The role is responsible for outcomes, including dependency management across the value chain, and promotes collaboration with peers and stakeholders within Application.

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR 

• Provide strategic leadership as a leader of leaders and their engineering teams—setting clear direction, promoting collaboration and growth, and ensuring alignment with SimCorp's vision and objectives
• Promote a culture of innovation, accountability, and technical excellence—creating an engaging environment that fosters growth, collaboration, and the delivery of premium-quality software
• Align engineering priorities with product strategy, ensuring focus on business-critical initiatives while enabling continuous improvement and scalability across teams
• Collaborate with your engineering peers and optimize systems for effective strategy execution
• Partner with the architecture team to maintain clear technical direction and shape long-term engineering strategies that support scalability and innovation
• Build the right capabilities within teams to meet current and future business needs, with overall responsibility for the health and evolution of multiple products within Risk and Performance
• Enable cross-team and cross-product-area planning and execution across your Risk and Performance area, and manage conflicting priorities and stakeholder expectations
• Communicate, execute, and follow up on executive strategy across your organization
• Stay on top of potential customer incidents and escalations, seeing them through to resolution

This role reports to the AVP of Engineering.

• Experience and knowledge in the field of Investment Management Risk and Performance
• Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire engineering teams, creating a collaborative and innovative environment
• Deep understanding of engineering principles, technologies, and methodologies relevant to the FinTech industry
• Experience using AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) in the SDLC
• Initiative, a client-focused approach, and a clear execution drive, with the capacity to handle conflicting priorities and manage stakeholder expectations
• You enjoy sparring with your peers in Engineering, Product Management, and Architecture across the Product Division to find the most effective solutions for the product areas and for SimCorp
• Effective problem-solving and collaboration skills to overcome obstacles and implement change in a large organization
• You are pragmatic and able to handle change, fostering a culture of collaboration and trust
• Experience leading leaders of cross-functional teams within a medium- to large-sized product area or enterprise solutions.

BENEFITS

• Global hybrid work policy - We ask you to work 2 days a week from the office. If you choose you can work remotely the other days. Of course you are welcome at the office if that is your preference.
• Growth and innovation - Every 6th sprint is reserved for planning and innovation. So, with regular intervals you have a chance to explore and learn new skills or improve something that you believe will be beneficial to you, your team or the application.
• Self- Direction - High degree of self-organization. Each team and developer have a high degree of freedom to plan, organize and design their work.
• Inclusive and diverse company culture
• Pension and health benefits and bonus
• Work-life balance – We strongly believe that an equilibrium between professional responsibilities makes us all the best version of our self’s, both in private life and as a colleague in the workplace
• Empowerment – We believe that all voices are valuable and must be heard. You will involved in shaping our work processes

NEXT STEPS

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.

If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.

We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.