Top Director of Engineering Jobs in NYC, NY

Leads strategic software engineering initiatives within PwC’s Tax practice, overseeing application design, coding, testing, architecture, integration, and delivery. Drives digital transformation, develops scalable solutions using .NET, Java, Python, and Azure, and applies CI/CD and ATDD practices. The Director also manages client and executive stakeholders, identifies software product opportunities, ensures technical compliance, promotes innovation, and mentors software engineering leaders.

Leads the Quality and Reliability organization, building an SRE practice, defining SLOs and observability standards, owning incident management, and establishing risk-based automated testing and quality gates. The role reports executive-level reliability metrics, guides technical governance, and partners with architecture and engineering teams to improve software reliability, performance, testability, and operational readiness. It also develops distributed quality engineering teams and applies LLMs and agentic tools to testing workflows.

Leads multiple software engineering departments and technical domains supporting payment network processing. Owns architecture for authorizations, tokenization, disputes, fraud, identity, settlement, and related data flows. Establishes scalable, secure, compliant engineering standards and directs cloud-native modernization. Drives enterprise adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering, SDLC automation, governance, testing, resilience, and incident response practices. Influences executives and cross-functional stakeholders while managing large technical organizations, complex projects, talent development, and operational stability.

Lead enterprise architecture for the Aladdin platform, defining target-state architectures across investment, data, and client domains. Drive cloud modernization, data and AI strategy, governance, resilience, and regulatory compliance. Partner with senior business and technology stakeholders to rationalize platforms, guide integrations, and deliver secure, scalable solutions.

Leads a globally distributed engineering organization supporting BlackRock’s ETF systems platform. Owns technical vision, architecture, resiliency, delivery, operational excellence, regulatory controls, AI adoption, and talent strategy. Partners with product, business, risk, compliance, and platform teams to scale mission-critical financial systems, improve engineering practices, manage production stability, and develop senior engineering leaders.

Leads global engineering teams responsible for technology strategy, modernization, resiliency, and operational excellence across mission-critical investment operations and portfolio services platforms. Partners with Product, Operations, Risk, Accounting, Trading, and Engineering leaders to deliver scalable systems supporting significant assets. Drives cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, automation, AI-enabled capabilities, platform reliability, organizational development, succession planning, and strategic transformation.

Leads and develops multiple software engineering teams, mentors engineers, partners with product managers, improves Agile engineering practices, and oversees scalable, resilient full-stack solutions. Directs AWS deployments, modernizes monolithic applications into microservices, promotes innovation, and drives technical excellence, collaboration, and team velocity across customer-focused banking products.

Leads multiple engineering teams, owning software delivery, SDLC quality, people management, strategic alignment, resource planning, incident governance, and team development. Partners with Product and business stakeholders on prioritization, estimation, communication, execution, and performance metrics. The role requires experience with large-scale, low-latency distributed systems, agile delivery, DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure as code, distributed teams, and scalable data technologies.

Lead and grow a high-velocity engineering team as a hands-on "player-coach," shipping production-ready code, incubating AI-native workflows, and ensuring spec-driven, secure, scalable architectures. Collaborate with product and stakeholders, audit AI-generated outputs, conduct design and code reviews, and bridge intent-to-execution to deliver next-generation card architecture solutions with minimal technical debt.

Leads multiple software engineering teams focused on developer experience and AI tooling. Responsibilities include hiring and mentoring engineers, partnering with product managers, improving engineering practices, designing and supporting full-stack solutions, and ensuring scalability, resilience, and availability. The role also leads AWS deployments, microservices modernization, Agile delivery, engineering intelligence initiatives, and adoption of emerging AI and developer productivity technologies.

Leads engineering teams building scalable, cloud-native AI-enabled marketing platforms. Defines platform vision, architects real-time data and decisioning systems, establishes integration and reliability standards, and oversees end-to-end delivery, deployment, and adoption. Partners with Product, Data, Marketing, AI/ML, CRM, media, and external technical teams while mentoring engineers and communicating with executives. The role emphasizes reusable data capabilities, automated marketing workflows, CI/CD, system security, availability, and measurable business outcomes.

The Engineering Director leads multiple teams for Hex's AI context platform, driving technical strategy, talent recruitment, and team development.

Lead Patreon’s Payments engineering team, setting technical direction and roadmap priorities for billing, checkout, payout, compliance, and payment infrastructure. Drive reliability initiatives, international payment expansion, vendor and build-versus-buy decisions, and cross-functional planning. Manage and develop a 10–12-person engineering team, oversee hiring and performance, and deliver reliable, high-quality payment experiences for creators and fans.

Leads a distributed engineering organization of approximately 20 engineers building Fanatics’ customer-facing iCasino applications, content management, and personalization systems. Owns delivery, architecture, reliability, observability, testing, incident response, roadmap execution, organizational design, hiring, and leadership development. Partners with Product, Design, and TPM teams while driving cross-organization initiatives and resolving ambiguous technical and operational challenges.

Leads multiple software engineering teams responsible for Priceline’s flight shopping platform. Sets technology strategy, architecture, operational practices, and multi-team roadmaps while partnering with product and commercial stakeholders. Manages and develops engineering managers and senior individual contributors, drives cross-functional execution, and advances AI-enabled engineering practices. Requires extensive software engineering leadership, cloud experience with GCP and AWS, system architecture expertise, and experience managing global organizations.

Leads mobile, cloud, and platform engineering teams; owns the software roadmap, architecture, engineering standards, organizational growth, and delivery processes. Partners with Product, Design, Regulatory, Quality, and executive leadership to deliver compliant software for medical imaging products. Builds and develops a multi-team engineering organization, attracts senior talent, and champions quality, ownership, and continuous improvement across a distributed organization.

Leads Butterfly Network’s Quality Engineering and DevOps functions, including test automation, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, release management, cloud reliability, observability, SRE, and developer tooling. Builds and manages distributed QA and DevOps teams while establishing quality gates, compliance processes, security practices, incident response, and operational standards for regulated medical-device software.

Leads and grows a distributed full stack engineering team building Butterfly’s enterprise clinical workflows platform. Sets technical strategy and architecture, owns roadmap execution, develops engineering talent, improves development and incident-response processes, and partners with Product, Design, Data, Security, and Compliance. The role emphasizes scalable cloud systems, operational excellence, observability, security, and HIPAA/PHI compliance while delivering reliable healthcare software.

Leads multiple software engineering departments and cross-functional technology initiatives within Card Technology. Establishes enterprise strategies for agentic AI-enabled engineering, SDLC and TLM automation, release governance, test modernization, resilience, incident response, and responsible AI controls. Manages senior stakeholders, complex projects, large technology teams, talent development, and cloud-native engineering efforts while driving scalable, secure, reliable, and cost-effective delivery.

Leads and mentors a software engineering team while contributing hands-on to scalable enterprise applications, backend services, data solutions, integrations, and distributed architectures. Oversees the full Agile development lifecycle, promotes automated testing and continuous delivery, supports cloud and data platform initiatives, and communicates technical decisions to cross-functional stakeholders. The role also explores AI, large language models, and modern application development practices.

Leads the design, development, testing, deployment, and architecture of enterprise software solutions while remaining hands-on. Manages and mentors a global engineering team, drives Agile, SDLC, and PDLC practices, partners with stakeholders on technical delivery, and champions AI-enabled engineering tools and productivity improvements.

Senior technical leader defining and implementing global enterprise network architecture. Drive network-as-code, IaC, automation, AI-driven tooling, secure segmentation, cloud/hybrid connectivity, observability, governance, and mentor global network teams to deliver resilient, auditable, high-performance networks.

Lead design, implementation, and management of the bank's network infrastructure. Oversee a team of network engineers, ensure security and regulatory compliance, manage vendors, respond to incidents, optimize performance and capacity, control budgets, and report to senior stakeholders while supporting modernization and resilience initiatives.

Lead development and delivery of intraday risk management and scenario-analysis applications for global equity trading. Act as senior individual contributor and product lead, coordinate with stakeholders and engineering teams, and drive platform renovation and distributed-systems solutions.

Lead strategy and delivery for shared enterprise platforms (Illustrations, Tax, Policy Generation, Integration Services). Modernize legacy systems to cloud-native, API-first, event-driven architectures. Build and develop large engineering teams, drive architectural decisions, ensure reliability, security, scalability, observability, CI/CD, SRE practices, and reduce technical debt while delivering measurable business outcomes.