Top Director of Engineering Jobs in NYC, NY

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.

Leads strategy, modernization, architecture, delivery, resiliency, and production stability for BNY’s mission-critical payments platform. Oversees global engineering organizations supporting wires, ACH, Zelle, instant payments, checks, and lockbox services. Partners with product, risk, compliance, cybersecurity, operations, auditors, and regulators to deliver secure, resilient, highly available platforms. Drives AI-enabled engineering, operational excellence, measurable performance improvements, talent development, and enterprise-scale transformation.

Leads large-scale building operating systems and IoT engineering programs, including BMS connectivity, controls, security compliance, fault detection, predictive maintenance, and asset management. Serves as a trusted client advisor, oversees project delivery and reporting, presents technical solutions, and manages a team of engineering subject matter experts. Develops resource plans, succession strategies, and professional growth programs while supporting facilities, sustainability, business continuity, and lifecycle asset initiatives.

Leads distributed engineering organizations across Risk and Performance, setting technical strategy, aligning priorities with product goals, and ensuring secure, scalable, high-quality software delivery. The role manages leaders, multiple product areas, cross-team dependencies, stakeholder expectations, technical direction, organizational growth, and customer incident resolution. It partners with Product, Design, Business, and Architecture teams while fostering innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

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.

Lead infrastructure engineering across cloud, on‑prem, and SaaS environments; set strategy, governance, and AI-assisted workflow standards; manage large cross‑functional teams, budgets, and SLAs; drive risk, security, compliance, automation, and scalable infrastructure solutions using Agile practices.

Leads engineering operations across DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure, security operations, QA, CI/CD, and observability. Owns organizational strategy, technical architecture, budgets, cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, security compliance, incident response, SRE practices, testing automation, and developer experience. Establishes reliability and productivity metrics, improves deployment velocity, manages engineering teams, and partners with executives and cross-functional stakeholders to scale secure, resilient systems.

Lead the Data Products engineering pillar owning technical strategy, clinical data ingestion, canonical modeling, and scalability. Manage ingestion pipelines, customer onboarding, data hygiene, observability, and enterprise reporting. Drive AI-augmented SDLC adoption, ensure regulatory compliance (HIPAA, SOC 2), hire and mentor engineering leaders, and partner with product and data science to deliver a stable, scalable clinical data platform that supports multi-customer growth and clinical insight generation.

The Senior Director of Engineering leads engineering strategy, mentors teams, oversees project delivery, collaborates with stakeholders, and champions best practices for operational excellence.

Leads multiple product engineering teams across Savvy’s product lines, including its advisor-facing AI platform. Owns engineering strategy, execution, architecture, organizational design, staffing, technical quality, and delivery accountability. Partners with Product and Design to prioritize investments, guide system design, resolve dependencies, and connect engineering decisions to customer and business outcomes. Provides hands-on technical leadership through code reviews, prototypes, debugging, and AI implementation guidance while developing engineering leaders and scaling the organization.

Leads a product engineering domain responsible for client-facing SaaS products, integrations, and workflows. Oversees hiring, coaching, architecture, delivery, incident management, and multiple product lines. Partners with Product Management on strategy and roadmaps, communicates tradeoffs across business functions, supports client engagements, and ensures reliable, high-quality releases. The role requires strong backend product engineering expertise and leadership in complex data environments.

Lead engineering execution and team growth for a national medication redistribution platform. Guide backend, frontend, infrastructure, architecture, security, reliability, and DevOps practices while remaining hands-on with design and production code. Partner with product, pharmacy operations, compliance, and executives to translate complex workflows into scalable software. Establish engineering standards, improve delivery and operational performance, recruit and mentor engineers, and evaluate AI tools for development and product capabilities.

Leads enterprise stability and resilience engineering teams and capabilities. Builds software engineering standards, automation, governance, and reusable controls that improve reliability, recoverability, security, scalability, performance, and customer outcomes. Maps customer journeys and technology dependencies, drives resilience-by-design across the engineering lifecycle, establishes reliability and performance practices, and influences executive leaders on multi-year modernization strategies.

Leads Re:Build’s Forward Deployed Engineering team, hiring and developing engineers who deliver full-stack digital solutions across manufacturing sites and functions. Partners with stakeholders to prioritize opportunities, guides technical delivery, establishes engineering standards, builds reusable delivery assets, measures solution impact, and promotes AI-assisted development tools. Requires strong software engineering, customer-facing delivery, people leadership, DevSecOps, Agile/SAFe, and cross-functional program management experience. The role includes approximately 25% domestic travel to customer sites.

Leads software engineering across a cloud-native equity platform modernization and the existing Certent Equity Management ecosystem. Owns delivery across 4–6 teams, broker integrations, core application stability, migration, staffing, and executive communication. Partners with architecture, product, and UX leaders to sequence execution, manage dependencies, enforce delivery standards, and drive AI-assisted development. Requires strong enterprise SaaS leadership, Azure fluency, data architecture experience, customer-facing delivery expertise, and management of distributed global teams.

Leads the Create Core platform engineering team, overseeing roadmap delivery, architecture, developer experience, accessibility, platform adoption, and technical quality. Manages 4–8 engineers, partners with Product and application teams, guides system design and code reviews, and develops a high-performing team through hiring, coaching, and performance management. The role requires experience with cloud-first web platforms, AWS architecture, modern JavaScript technologies, Agile development, and cross-functional technical leadership.

Lead and manage multiple engineering teams across Transfers, Client Treasury, and GTPN Infrastructure to define technical vision, deliver high-quality payment and treasury products, remove blockers, collaborate with product and design, measure product performance using data, and scale global payment infrastructure.

Lead engineering for a Content and Experimentation platform: define strategy, governance, and cloud-native delivery on AWS; drive agentic AI-enabled engineering adoption, experimentation rigor (feature flags, A/B testing), API/event-driven integration, platform SLAs, reliability, and cross-functional stakeholder alignment to enable scalable personalization and rapid iteration.

The Director leads the design and delivery of AI-enabled cloud platforms at Tapestry, focusing on eCommerce. Responsibilities include platform engineering, implementing AI capabilities, promoting DevOps practices, and managing engineering teams while aligning technology with business objectives.