Senior Director, Engineering – Corporates, Financial Institutions & Sovereigns (Manchester)

Overview

As Senior Director, you will own and shape the engineering organization powering Fitch’s Corporates, Financial Institutions & Sovereigns lines. You’ll lead multiple high-performing full-stack teams, driving bold modernization, greenfield innovation, and AI-native platforms in a complex financial services context. Expect executive collaboration, fast-paced experimentation, and a culture of relentless delivery and learning. You’ll influence platform strategy and craft a future-ready technical vision that scales with Fitch’s analytical workloads.

Pay / Benefits

• genuine mandate to innovate
• executive visibility and strategic influence
• balance of depth and breadth in role
• access to latest AI tools and training budgets
• career acceleration to principal and executive levels
• culture that rewards curiosity and bold ideas

Responsibilities

• Set and execute a bold technical vision for four full-stack engineering teams
• Lead, mentor, and develop team leads and engineers across diverse backgrounds
• Oversee modernization of critical platforms while delivering new systems
• Pursue greenfield opportunities to design and deploy net-new applications
• Champion AI/ML capabilities as integral parts of platforms
• Partner with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to align priorities and delivery

Key requirements

• 18+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• Proven multi-team leadership across full-stack disciplines
• Strong command of modern software architecture, cloud-native platforms, and production-grade delivery
• Production experience with React, Java, and/or Python; deployed on AWS and/or Azure
• Bias for experimentation and driving impactful technical change
• Experience modernizing platforms while delivering new systems
• People leadership and talent development responsibilities
• Cross-functional stakeholder management and executive communication abilities
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, ML, or related field or equivalent expertise

• leadership and people development
• strategic thinking
• cross-functional collaboration
• React
• Java
• Python

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