Senior Director, Engineering - Corporates, Financial Institutions & Sovereigns

Senior Director, Engineering – Corporates, Financial Institutions & Sovereigns
Fitch Ratings is looking for a builder, a challenger, and a boundary-pusher to lead the engineering organization responsible for all applications and services powering our Corporates, Financial Institutions, and Sovereigns lines of business. This is not a role for someone who optimizes within the status quo — it's a role for someone who questions it, reimagines it, and has the courage and capability to do something about it.

As Senior Director, you will have executive ownership of four engineering teams comprising a couple of dozen engineers. You'll lead a talented, multidisciplinary group tackling some of the most consequential technology challenges in global financial intelligence — maintaining and evolving the systems that analysts and clients depend on today, while simultaneously building the next generation of platforms from a position of real creative freedom and organizational backing.

This is a role for someone who moves fast, experiments boldly, and doesn't wait for permission to try something new. Someone who has broken things in the pursuit of building something better, who sees constraints as invitations to be clever, and who brings an infectious sense of possibility that raises the ambition of everyone around them. If you've spent time deep in machine learning or AI systems — not just using them, but building them — that's not just a bonus, it's the kind of background that makes this opportunity even more compelling.

But this role goes far beyond any single discipline: it's about leading a culture of relentless innovation across every dimension of how software gets built and delivered.

We'll Count on You To
Challenge the conventional and set a bolder technical vision
Own the strategic direction, execution, and engineering culture of four high-performing full-stack engineering teams. But more than managing what exists — interrogate it. Ask the uncomfortable questions about why things are built the way they are, and lead your teams toward answers that are smarter, faster, and more powerful. Set a technical vision that doesn't just improve the current state but genuinely reimagines what's possible for the platforms powering Fitch's most critical analytical work.

Build, develop, and inspire exceptional people
Lead, mentor, and empower a team of team leads and engineers across a range of technical backgrounds and experience levels. Foster a culture where intellectual curiosity is celebrated, where experimentation is encouraged, and where people feel safe enough to take risks and learn loudly from what doesn't work. Attract and retain engineers who are hungry, inventive, and proud of both the quality of what they ship today and the audacity of what they're building toward.

Reimagine and modernize critical platforms
Oversee the full lifecycle of the applications and services central to Fitch's Corporates, Financial Institutions, and Sovereigns analytical workflows. Balance the discipline of maintaining production-grade systems with the creative ambition to tear down and rebuild what no longer serves the business well. Be the person in the room who asks "what if we started over?" — and who knows when that's exactly the right call.

Drive greenfield innovation without apology
Identify and actively pursue opportunities to design and build net-new applications and platforms that replace or leapfrog legacy approaches. Embrace the blank canvas — and bring the rigor of world-class software delivery with you. This is an organization that wants to see bets placed, experiments run, and lessons learned fast. Be the kind of leader who creates that energy and channels it into things that last.

Push the frontier of AI, ML, and intelligent systems
Go beyond adopting AI tools — define how intelligent systems become structural, load-bearing parts of the platforms your teams own. Whether that's LLM-powered workflows, ML models embedded in analytical processes, agentic automation, or AI-augmented developer tooling, bring the depth to evaluate, architect, and champion these capabilities with real technical conviction. If you've built ML…