Director, Digital Technology Engineering; Remote

Overview

This is a remote role that may only be hired in the following location(s): AZ, NC, TX.

This is a critical leadership role that sits at the intersection of technology strategy, engineering excellence, product partnership, and operational reliability.

We are seeking asenior digital engineering leader with experience building and scaling custom banking platforms inahighly regulated, fast-paced, future focused environment.

We are seeking a highly accomplished Director, Digital Technology Engineering to lead a global organization of approximately 40 software engineering professionals responsible for the development, testing, delivery, and production support of our custom-built Commercial Banking digital platform.

This leader will own the end-to-end technology delivery lifecycle across multiple modules of our web and mobile banking platform, including software engineering design and development, quality engineering, release management, platform integrity, and Tier 4 production support. The role is accountable for ensuring the platform remains scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with long-term business and technology objectives.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise, exceptional people leadership, strong product partnership capabilities, and a passion for engineering excellence. They will play a key role in advancing our digital transformation strategy while operating within a highly regulated, security-first banking environment.

• Lead and develop a global engineering organization of approximately 40 professionals across the United States and India.
• Own end-to-end delivery of multiple commercial banking digital platform capabilities across web, mobile, APIs, and supporting platform services.
• Ensure predictable delivery of business features and strategic initiatives on schedule, within budget, and aligned with business objectives.
• Drive a culture of accountability, innovation, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.
• Build and retain high-performing engineering teams through coaching, mentoring, succession planning, and talent development.

• Establish deep partnerships with Product Management, Business stakeholders, Architecture, Cybersecurity, Risk, Compliance, and Operations teams.
• Help to translate product vision and business priorities into scalable technology solutions and execution plans.
• Partner closely with product leaders to balance feature delivery with technical debt reduction, modernization efforts, and platform sustainability.
• Act as a trusted technology advisor to business and technology leadership teams.

• Own the technology roadmap for assigned platform domains, ensuring architectural integrity and long-term return on technology investments.
• Drive modernization initiatives that improve scalability, resiliency, maintainability, security, and operational efficiency.
• Ensure alignment between engineering delivery, enterprise architecture standards, and strategic technology direction.
• Maintain accountability for platform health, stability, performance, reliability, and technical risk management.

• Champion best practices across software engineering, quality engineering, Dev Sec Ops , CI/CD, observability, and production operations.
• Ensure the platform meets or exceeds all non-functional requirements (NFRs) including performance, scalability, availability, recoverability, observability, and maintainability.
• Establish and monitor engineering KPIs and service level objectives for quality, reliability, delivery predictability, and operational excellence.
• Provide executive-level visibility…