Senior Director, Engineering – Corporates, Financial Institutions & Sovereigns

Overview

Senior Director, Engineering leads four full-stack teams delivering critical applications for Fitch’s Corporates, Financial Institutions & Sovereigns lines. You will shape a bold technical vision, modernize platforms, and drive greenfield innovation while maintaining reliable production systems. You’ll champion a culture of relentless experimentation and cross-functional collaboration, including ML/AI, to advance global financial intelligence. This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on technical credibility in a fast-moving, high-stakes environment.

Pay / Benefits

• executive visibility
• backing to innovate and rebuild platforms
• opportunity to shape AI-driven fintech platforms
• continuous learning and access to latest AI tools/frameworks
• career acceleration to principal/executive levels
• culture that rewards curiosity and bold ideas

Responsibilities

• Set and own the technical vision and strategic direction for four high-performing full-stack teams
• challenge existing architectures and practices to create faster, smarter platforms
• oversee end-to-end lifecycle of central applications and services for analytical workflows
• lead, mentor, and develop team leads and engineers across technical backgrounds
• drive modernization of legacy platforms while delivering new systems
• pursue greenfield opportunities to design and build new applications and platforms
• advocate and implement AI/ML capabilities as core, not peripheral, components
• partner with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to align delivery with business goals

Key requirements

• 18+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with multi-team leadership
• leadership of team leads and engineers across full-stack disciplines
• deep technical credibility in software architecture, cloud-native platforms, and production-ready delivery
• full-stack expertise with React, Java, and/or Python in production
• experience on AWS and/or Azure
• bias toward experimentation and innovation
• modernization and greenfield delivery experience
• talent development and cross-functional collaboration
• strong executive communication skills

• strategic influence
• mentorship and talent development
• risk-taking with accountability
• React
• Java
• Python

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