Top Director of Engineering Jobs in NYC, NY

Leads engineering leaders and senior engineers modernizing commercial lending workflows and platforms. Establishes standards for architecture, reliability, security, automation, AI-enabled engineering, and operational excellence. Partners with bankers, product, and operations to define roadmaps and outcomes. Owns technical decisions, budgets, staffing, vendor strategy, governance, metrics, and organizational health while building high-performing teams.

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 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 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.

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.

The Director of Platform & Reliability Engineering will lead teams focused on internal platforms, cloud operations, and reliability engineering, driving technical decisions, organizational design, and operational maturity.

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 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.

Lead Statara’s Data Products & Engineering function, owning Snowflake-based data infrastructure reliability and evolution, solution architecture for client engagements, pre-sales technical support, cross-functional alignment, and team leadership to deliver scalable data and analytics solutions.

Lead multiple software engineering organizations to define and scale agentic AI-enabled engineering, SDLC/TLM automation, cloud-native architectures, and portfolio-level governance. Drive cross-functional adoption of AI-assisted development, resilience engineering, test modernization, release governance, and incident response while managing stakeholders, talent development, and delivery at enterprise scale.

Lead a global derivatives execution technology team to design, build, and operate low-latency, secure, and compliant exchange connectivity platforms. Provide technical leadership, make architectural decisions, develop and review production C++ code, ensure regulatory and operational controls, collaborate across trading and engineering teams, and drive adoption of firmwide engineering practices.

Lead multiple data engineering teams to design and build cloud-native data platforms and pipelines (Databricks, Spark, AWS/Azure/GCP). Champion x-as-Code, SDLC best practices, data quality, governance (Unity Catalog, Immuta), FinOps, and automated, repeatable data production frameworks. Partner with product and architecture on strategy, manage resources and budgets, upskill engineers, and transform HR/employee experience into scalable data products.

Lead engineering teams to design and deliver low-latency, cloud-native distributed systems. Translate business needs into technical specifications, drive AWS adoption, ensure non-functional requirements and governance, mentor engineers, and coordinate cross-functional delivery and architectural decisions.

Leads the Insurance Product Configuration and Enrollment Platform Core, managing engineering managers and 20–30 engineers. Owns technical vision, distributed systems architecture, delivery commitments, operational excellence, testing strategy, partner implementations, and cross-team interfaces. Develops engineering leaders, manages hiring and vendors, and drives adoption of AI-augmented development tools and practices. Ensures scalable, secure, reliable platform services while balancing contractual delivery dates with long-term platform maintainability.

Lead and grow a consumer engineering organization (8–12+ engineers), set multi-year technical and product direction, stay hands-on in architecture and coding, partner with product/design/clinical teams, own reliability and scalability, and build an AI-powered health companion while scaling processes and hiring.

Lead and build Vercel’s Forward Deployed Engineering and Professional Services function. Hire and develop the team, define engagement and commercial models, ensure delivery excellence from discovery to production, provide hands-on architecture support, create repeatable playbooks, and synthesize customer feedback into product and executive insights.