Senior Director of Software Engineering - Backend & AI

ams while frequently overseeing employee populations across multiple platforms, divisions, and lines of business

• Acts as the primary interface with senior leaders, stakeholders, and executives, driving consensus across competing objectives

• Manages multiple stakeholders, complex projects, and large cross-product collaborations

• Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams

• Champions the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ year of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise and more broadly across the organization

• Hands on expertise in large-scale engineering delivery, platform modernization, or technology transformation, including leadership of senior engineers/leads.

• Experience developing or leading large or cross-functional teams of technologists

• Demonstrated prior experience influencing across highly matrixed, complex organizations and delivering value at scale

• Experience leading complex projects supporting system design, testing, and operational stability

• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent

• Extensive practical cloud native experience

• Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Deep mainframe modernization experience (batch/online workloads, scheduling chains, DB2/VSAM concepts, integration/messaging) and proven patterns to retire mainframe dependencies safely.
• Experience building self-service adoption enablement to reduce friction for consumer teams.
• Experience implementing automated parity validation (dual-run strategies, output comparisons, reconciliation, drift detection) and evidence-based shutdown readiness.
• Experience with governance models for large transformations (architecture authority, risk forums, release/change management cadence, KPI-driven execution).
• Partner management experience for tooling and delivery assurance.
• Experience working at code level