Top Director of Engineering Jobs in NYC, NY

Lead enterprise application engineering delivery and operations across front-office, back-office, and employee platforms. Ensure stability, scalability, security, and alignment to business outcomes while driving simplification, automation, AI-enabled practices, lifecycle management, governance, and stakeholder value realization. Build and develop a high-performing engineering organization.

Define and operationalize company-wide engineering design standards for aerospace programs (VBAT, XBAT). Standardize CAD, drawing quality, design/analysis workflows, documentation, EBOM/MBOM handoffs, and configuration management. Partner with engineering leaders to scale engineering excellence, influence cross-discipline design decisions, and improve consistency without blocking execution.

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.

Lead Data & Integrations Engineering to enhance healthcare integration and data platforms. Manage delivery processes, team development, operational excellence, and cross-functional partnerships.

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.

The Director of Embedded Systems Engineering will lead the firmware organization, oversee technical roadmaps, process architecture, and integrate AI tools while managing JDM partnerships and ensuring operational excellence.

The Director of Engineering will lead platform engineering strategy and teams, enhancing developer experience, driving AI integration, and establishing governance for development practices.

Lead the Pipeline team to own strategy and execution for MongoDB's end-to-end software delivery platform. Drive reliability, scalability, security, developer experience, CI/CD and release systems, telemetry, and organizational growth while partnering across engineering and product.

Lead and scale a multidisciplinary Platform Engineering organization owning cloud infrastructure, developer experience, SRE, and DevSecOps. Define technical strategy, run CI/CD and monorepo systems, drive AI-assisted and agentic development adoption, ensure reliability and cost-efficiency, and recruit and develop engineering leaders while partnering with product, security, and stakeholders.

Responsible for the health and stability of production applications, leading incident management, operational controls, and team development within WM Technology.

Lead and scale FanDuel's cloud and outpost infrastructure foundation. Define infrastructure strategy, standards, SLOs/SLIs, disaster recovery, cost governance, and operational discipline. Manage vendor relationships, cloud spend, capacity planning, incident response, and regulatory compliance. Build and mentor an infrastructure team, partner with platform and product leaders, and drive automation to improve reliability, resilience, and operational maturity across Kubernetes, networking, and cloud provisioning.

Lead and optimize BDG's data infrastructure, driving the development of scalable data pipelines and enhancing storage and reporting systems while fostering a culture of innovation.

Lead platform engineering strategy, roadmap, and execution for hybrid on-prem and AWS environments. Manage platform services, AWS architecture, IaC (Terraform), CI/CD (GitLab), observability, security, cost optimization, and incident response. Build and grow a distributed team, enable follow-the-sun operations with Bangalore, and partner with Product, Ops, Security, and Finance to ensure reliable, scalable, and compliant platform delivery.

Lead multiple platform engineering teams to build scalable, high-volume SaaS infrastructure for security products. Drive technical roadmap, SRE and developer-experience best practices, integrate AI tooling, hire and coach managers, measure engineering performance, and partner with product and architecture to deliver iterative customer value.

Lead design and development of high-performance fixed income calculation engines and services. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, drive architecture and technical excellence, mentor engineers, modernize systems, and implement end-to-end data lineage, reconciliation, anomaly detection, reproducibility, auditability, and versioning across analytics models and data pipelines within an Agile product-focused environment.

Lead and scale a North American Solutions Engineering team to drive presales strategy, technical win rates, and customer outcomes. Partner with Sales, Product, and Engineering to design solutions, coach engineers, adopt AI-enabled practices, and support enterprise deals while managing hiring, processes, and cross-functional collaboration.

The Director of Engineering provides strategic leadership, oversees AI-enabled systems development, fosters team culture, and collaborates with stakeholders to align technical roadmaps with business goals.

Lead and transform the agency's engineering function across software, QA, Salesforce, data engineering, infrastructure, and cybersecurity. Own the multi-year roadmap and modernization from legacy .NET to cloud-native Python, establish engineering standards and CI/CD/DevOps practices, build a Salesforce engineering team, mature a shared data platform, oversee vendors, implement AI use cases in production, and develop managerial capability and workforce reskilling.

Lead an engineering domain (Consumer, B2B, or Backend), owning technical direction, delivery, system health, architecture, and team development. Translate business needs to technical plans, manage cross-team dependencies, ensure production readiness and incident response, and hire and mentor engineers to deliver scalable, reliable software.

Lead Forward Deployed Engineering to scale customer implementations of Accrete's AI platform from discovery to production. Build operating models, delivery standards, staffing plans, and playbooks; manage and mentor teams; partner with Product, Engineering, Research, and customers to ensure secure, reliable, and scalable deployments with measurable impact.

Lead Duolingo's New Subjects engineering pillar (Math, Music, Chess). Co-lead product and technical strategy, manage multiple directors and 100+ engineers, drive AI/LLM-powered features and Unity-based gameplay, ensure reliability and developer productivity, hire and develop leadership, and partner with Product, Design, Learning, and AI to deliver high-impact, experiment-driven products.

Lead and manage the Electrical Design Engineering team for 30+ facilities, deliver HV/MV/LV electrical designs for capital projects and operations, develop standards, lead FEED/FEL, manage external engineering partners, mentor SMEs, and drive reliability, risk assessments, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Lead and deliver large Transportation, Highway, and Bridge projects in the NY/NJ metro area. Serve as client liaison with NYCDOT, manage design-build and alternative delivery projects, drive business development, oversee project financials and CAM responsibilities, mentor staff, and develop long-term business and succession plans to grow the Highway/Bridge practice.

Lead engineering for enterprise application platforms, provide technical and strategic leadership, own architecture and delivery, build and coach teams, enforce engineering standards, drive cloud-native modernization, manage vendors, and ensure production reliability and security for 24/7 mission-critical systems.

Lead multiple engineering teams responsible for mobile foundation and core web services for Disney+ and Hulu. Drive technical vision, org-level OKRs, cross-functional initiatives, platform investments (observability, release safety, developer tooling), and managerial development. Partner with product and business leaders to remove bottlenecks and operationalize engineering standards and policies.