Top Director of Engineering Jobs in NYC, NY

Leads a large, multidisciplinary engineering organization responsible for enterprise analytics platforms supporting healthcare applications, AI products, search, translation, and text summarization. Owns engineering strategy, architecture, code quality, platform modernization, reliability, scalability, observability, and cost efficiency. Partners with Data Science, Product, Analytics, and Architecture teams while mentoring leaders and communicating technical strategy to stakeholders.

Leads the design, development, deployment, governance, and support of secure enterprise applications supporting clinical research operations. Establishes SDLC, CI/CD, testing, release, documentation, and compliance practices; guides AI-assisted development; partners on architecture and infrastructure; supports validation and audits; and manages, mentors, and grows the software engineering team.

Leads and scales Step’s engineering organization, technical strategy, architecture, execution, and development practices. Partners with executive and cross-functional leaders to deliver reliable, secure, customer-facing financial products. Responsibilities include managing engineering managers and senior engineers, recruiting and retaining talent, improving processes, removing organizational and technical bottlenecks, balancing product delivery with platform investments, and supporting scalable distributed systems.

Leads the development of Stella-Jones’ enterprise manufacturing engineering and reliability capability across North American plants. The role optimizes processes, equipment, facilities, maintenance strategies, capital projects, automation, controls, and operational technology. It establishes engineering standards, reliability frameworks, technical governance, and a knowledge base while building and mentoring a technical team. The Director works across plant operations, maintenance, PMO, IT/OT, vendors, and engineering firms, with travel of approximately 50%–60%.

Leads Site Reliability Engineering and Application Reliability Operations Engineering teams supporting enterprise applications and platforms. Drives reliability, availability, resiliency, observability, automation, incident response, operational excellence, and proactive risk reduction across digital, enrollment, health, data, contact center, cloud, and vendor-supported services. Manages technical teams, strengthens operational accountability, oversees service health and systemic issue resolution, and partners across business and technology organizations to improve production reliability.

Leads global software engineering teams responsible for Mastercam’s toolpath and motion technology. Owns the technology roadmap, architecture, software delivery, engineering budget, staffing, and cross-business-unit platform initiatives. Drives modernization across desktop, cloud, and hybrid-cloud products while partnering with Product Management, Applied Research, and Architecture. Manages engineering leaders, develops talent, oversees quality and security, and communicates progress to executive stakeholders.

Owner-side technical lead coordinating and integrating civil, structural, electrical, mechanical, utility, and network design for AI data center deployments. Reviews engineering deliverables, identifies design and constructability risks, enforces Basis of Design standards, supports utility/path-to-power planning, manages consultants, and aligns design with development, construction, power, and operations teams to standardize scalable deployments.

Leads engineering strategy and a distributed, multi-team organization delivering consumer websites and mobile apps across nine real estate brands and 120 countries. Owns platform strategy, reliability, performance, SEO, experimentation, AI initiatives, budgets, vendors, and organizational design. Partners with executive leaders across Product, Design, Marketing, and brand teams while hiring, developing, and succession-planning engineering managers and senior engineers.

Leads engineering strategy for platform systems, including modularizing a Python/FastAPI monolith, advancing AI-native development, enabling AI feature delivery, and strengthening application security. Oversees identity, audit logging, API and MCP gateways, reliability, and shared services. Manages engineering managers and senior engineers, drives organizational alignment, reduces technical debt, recruits talent, and builds secure, high-velocity developer platforms.

Leads the mobile engineering organization responsible for ServiceTitan’s iOS and Android applications. Owns app performance, reliability, release quality, modernization, engineering processes, and predictable delivery. Manages engineering managers, develops leadership talent, partners with Product and Design, drives technical direction, supports recruiting, and ensures mobile initiatives deliver business outcomes at scale.

Leads the global multi-tenant Site Reliability Engineering organization, setting strategy, operating models, reliability roadmaps, and production standards. Oversees managers and senior technical leaders while driving Kubernetes adoption, platform modernization, DevOps, infrastructure automation, observability, incident response, disaster recovery, capacity planning, change governance, and operational risk reduction. Partners across engineering, product, security, customer success, and program management to deliver reliable global SaaS services and develops organizational talent, metrics, and succession plans.

Lead engineering for Polymarket’s clearing, payments, and risk systems, including the FCM build, clearing engine, settlement, reconciliation, ledger, payment rails, and real-time risk controls. Partner with operations, treasury, compliance, legal, and business teams to meet regulatory requirements. Hire and manage senior engineers, establish technical standards, oversee on-call operations, and guide a regulated 0-to-1 financial infrastructure build.

Leads engineering strategy, architecture, delivery, and organizational development for Agiloft’s Contract Intelligence portfolio. Oversees Astra Agents, Contract Intelligence Graph, shared cloud-native platforms, APIs, IAM, AI assistants, and integrations. Partners with Product, Design, Applied AI, and Operations to deliver secure, scalable, reliable customer-facing systems. Manages distributed engineering teams, develops leaders, establishes operational metrics, guides responsible AI practices, and remains hands-on in architecture, code reviews, and technical decisions.

Leads network engineering and digital technology strategy, major project and program portfolios, cybersecurity incident response, budgeting, quality processes, and technology operations. Develops digital capabilities, improves products and services, manages organizational performance, and builds talent through coaching and workforce development. Partners across the organization to execute strategic roadmaps, maintain legacy systems, improve customer-focused solutions, and deliver secure, scalable technology outcomes.

Lead Nexcess’s product engineering organization, owning architecture, delivery, roadmap, team structure, engineering-manager development, hiring, and production accountability. Improve delivery speed and reliability using DORA metrics, AI-assisted engineering, automated testing, observability, trunk-based development, feature flags, and incident management. Guide modernization of legacy Perl and PHP systems, billing and payment platforms, hosting products, and infrastructure migrations while partnering closely with Product and senior stakeholders.

Lead engineering for Parento’s leave management, claims, employer and employee portals, internal tools, integrations, and databases. Build front-end mobile and web architecture, back-end applications, APIs, and responsive experiences while partnering with product, UX/UI, customers, and the CEO. Manage the engineering team, establish development processes, improve operational scalability, and directly contribute to programming and technical strategy.

Leads the architecture, development, engineering strategy, and continuous improvement of SAP Commerce Cloud platforms. Manages engineers and technical leads, owns the technical roadmap, oversees integrations with SAP and third-party systems, and ensures scalability, performance, security, and quality. Partners with product, UX, DevOps, QA, and business teams to deliver customer-facing commerce capabilities while managing engineering execution, external partners, and distributed teams.

Leads geographically distributed Business Analyst and Software Engineering teams delivering global enterprise Time and Pay solutions. Owns strategy, architecture, development, integrations, modernization, automation, quality, and operational performance across Oracle and ADP platforms. Partners with HR, Finance, vendors, and technology leaders to define roadmaps, address multinational payroll and workforce requirements, and deliver scalable solutions. Requires extensive enterprise application leadership, cloud, AI, systems integration, and transformation experience.

Leads the global Site Reliability Engineering function for an event-driven platform. Responsibilities include building and managing the SRE team, setting reliability strategy, guiding architecture and code reviews, improving AWS infrastructure, Kafka and PostgreSQL resilience, strengthening CI/CD and release engineering, establishing SLOs and observability, reducing operational toil, coordinating incident response, and enabling responsible AI adoption.

Leads platform engineering strategy across Azure infrastructure, legacy Windows Server workloads, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, reliability, identity, security, cost optimization, and engineering tooling. Builds and develops a platform engineering team while overseeing tenant consolidation, modernization, observability, incident response, and developer self-service. Partners with Security and Compliance to support sensitive and regulated data environments.

Provides technical and people leadership for forensic investigations of damaged building structures and mechanical and electrical systems. Conducts site inspections, analyzes materials and environmental factors, interprets building codes, and prepares defensible technical reports. Reviews consultants’ work, manages project scope and budgets, coordinates clients and site visits, mentors engineers, and supports business development. The role is fully remote but requires field work and travel up to 50%.

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 the platform development organization, including software engineering, architecture, platform modernization, cloud adoption, AI-enabled capabilities, and enterprise solution delivery. Establishes development standards, SDLC readiness gates, CI/CD workflows, security practices, and continuous improvement initiatives. Oversees architects, managers, and software engineers while managing resources, risks, and escalations. Requires extensive Microsoft technology, Azure, software architecture, regulated-environment validation, and people leadership experience.

Lead Attentive’s cloud platform organization, overseeing AWS infrastructure, Snowflake and centralized data platforms, database infrastructure, DevOps, and cloud cost optimization. Set technical strategy, improve reliability and operational standards, lead migrations, build self-service developer workflows, and develop engineering managers and technical leaders. Partner across Engineering, Product, Finance, and Developer Experience to improve infrastructure efficiency, scalability, security, and delivery speed.

Leads broadcast engineering for Barclays Center’s control room and production infrastructure. Manages technical staff, event coverage, vendors, maintenance, capital planning, system reliability, and critical incident response. Oversees SMPTE ST 2110 networks, broadcast video and audio systems, intercom, monitoring, documentation, commissioning, and lifecycle planning. Supports live events with flexible on-site scheduling, including nights, weekends, holidays, and on-call coverage.