Assistant Director, Software Engineering - Public Investments

About the Job

The Assistant Director, Software Engineering (People Leader) owns end-to-end technical quality and delivery execution across UI, services, and data platforms. This role is accountable for technical direction, delivery excellence, and people leadership for the Public Investments engineering teams.

• Define and communicate technical direction for Public Investments team, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, security, and delivery standards.
• Translate product and business outcomes into pragmatic technical designs and implementation plans.
• Lead solution design across front end (React), backend services (Node.js, REST APIs), and data platforms (dbt, Snowflake) with clear interface contracts and data lineage.
• Drive technical decomposition and sequencing for initiatives spanning applications, APIs, pipelines, and warehouse models.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards for code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and operational readiness.
• Own technical risk management, including early identification of architecture, integration, performance, and security risks.
• Ensure API and data integrations are resilient, well-documented, and reusable across teams.
• Improve data reliability and trust by guiding data warehouse model quality, transformation design, and warehouse performance optimization.
• Support production stability by guiding incident response, root-cause analysis, and preventive engineering improvements.

• Serve as direct people leader for engineers, responsible for coaching, growth, performance management, and career development.
• Build a strong engineering culture centered on ownership, quality, learning, and constructive feedback.
• Lead regular technical and delivery reviews, fostering a healthy review and mentorship culture.
• Develop team capability through coaching, pairing, and intentional skills development.
• Partner with Engineering Management on hiring, onboarding, and succession planning.
• Set clear expectations and accountability for technical excellence, delivery outcomes, and operational readiness.

• Partner closely with Product Managers to balance delivery speed, quality, and long term maintainability.
• Coordinate cross team dependencies and release readiness for shared components, platforms, and data pipelines.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and other investment delivery teams' Technical Leads to align standards, patterns, and roadmaps.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, providing clarity under ambiguity.

• Product Manager for Public Investments team
• Engineering Manager and Software/Data Engineers
• Enterprise Architecture
• Other investments delivery teams' Technical leads

• Prior experience with one or more Public Investment Managements Systems (e.g. Aladdin Enterprise, Calypso, Bloomberg, Charles River, etc.)
• 8+ years of software and data engineering experience, with strong full-stack and data platform expertise.
• Prior experience leading engineers directly (or demonstrated readiness to step into people leadership).
• Proven technical leadership across multiple teams or complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong experience building modern web applications with React.
• Strong experience building backend services and designing REST APIs.
• Strong experience with data warehousing best practices.
• Experience with database performance tuning, cost-aware design, and data governance controls.
• Experience designing secure, scalable, and observable systems in enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and elevate engineering maturity.
• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience in investment services domains.
• Experience modernizing legacy applications and data pipelines.
• Experience with platform migration programs and phased cutover strategies.
• Experience defining shared engineering standards across multiple teams.

• Strong systems thinking and sound technical judgment under ambiguity.
• Ability to balance immediate delivery goals with long-term architectural sustainability.
• Ability to influence without formal authority and create alignment across teams.
• Ownership mindset with high standards for reliability, security, and engineering quality.
• Act as a force multiplier by developing people, not just individual output.

Accountability:
Holds self and their direct reports