Director, Software Engineering

Encino Building #2, 5707 Southwest Parkway, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Posted Thursday, December 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM

Kestra Holdings offers industry-leading wealth management platforms for independent wealth management professionals nationwide. Kestra is dedicated to empowering independent financial professionals—including traditional and hybrid RIAs—to grow their businesses and deliver exceptional client service. We combine advanced business management technology with personalized consulting to provide unmatched scale, efficiency, and support. Our advisor-focused culture is built on innovation and advocacy, enabling advisors to offer comprehensive securities and investment advisory solutions to their clients.

Lead with Purpose. Partner with Impact.

As Director, Software Engineering in Kestra’s Advisor Platform Architecture & Engineering, you’ll lead a manager‑of‑managers organization to deliver the Advisor Platform. You’ll set the technical roadmap and engineering standards, remove obstacles to team performance, and partner across Product, Design, and Operations. Anchored in Kestra’s core values of Make it Happen, Serve, and One Team, you’ll make data‑driven decisions that elevate speed, quality, reliability, and cost of ownership—while fostering innovation, inclusion, and continuous learning.

• Set and execute the engineering strategy for the Advisor Platform; translate business goals into a technical roadmap, operating mechanisms, and measurable outcomes (OKRs/KPIs).
• Lead and develop a manager of managers organization, hire, coach, and retain diverse teams; build succession plans; cultivate an inclusive, high-performance culture.
• Own delivery excellence across the SDLC; standardize Agile/Dev Ops practices (CI/CD, testing, observability, incident/postmortems) to improve reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Make accountable, data driven decisions on resourcing, budget, portfolio priorities, and sequencing; optimize total cost of ownership for platform components.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards and controls (secure coding, data protection, change management, access governance) and carry governance accountability for quality, security, and maintainability.
• Influence peer leaders and senior stakeholders across Product, Design, Data, Operations, Security, and Compliance; provide clear narratives and metrics to guide tradeoffs and decisions.
• Maintain deep domain awareness of wealth management regulations and client sensitivities (e.g., data privacy, suitability, fiduciary obligations); partner with Compliance to keep standards current.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risk; lead incident response and root cause remediation; ensure all solutions adhere to internal standards and applicable regulatory guidelines.
• Drive architecture and modernization initiatives (cloud/platform evolution, build vs buy, legacy remediation) that increase scalability, resilience, and speed of delivery.
• Engineering leadership at scale:
  Proven track record leading manager of managers organizations and developing high performing teams (hiring, coaching, succession, inclusion).
• Modern SDLC & delivery excellence:
  Deep familiarity with Agile, Dev Ops, CI/CD, testing/automation, observability, incident response/postmortems, and reliability practices.
• Architecture & cloud:
  Proven experience designing and delivering large‑scale, cloud‑native platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) with strong governance (security, reliability, observability) and cost‑of‑ownership optimization.
• Security & risk:
  Strong knowledge of secure coding, compliance, and risk management within technology organizations; able to embed controls throughout the SDLC.
• Stakeholder influence:
  Demonstrated ability to collaborate across matrixed environments and influence senior stakeholders using clear narratives and data.
• Operational judgment:
  Strong analytical/problem solving skills with hands on experience in incident management and issue resolution; comfort making data driven trade offs across scope, schedule, and quality.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent…