Assistant Director, Software Engineering - Public Investments (Public Investments Lead)
About The Position
The Assistant Director, Software Engineering (Tech Lead) owns end-to-end technical quality and delivery execution across UI, services, and data platforms for the Public Investments engineering teams. This hands-on technical leadership role has direct engineer reports and is accountable for technical direction, delivery excellence, and engineering leadership. The role partners closely with engineers, Product Managers, Architects, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and supportable solutions aligned with team objectives. The technical lead sets direction, raises standards, and develops engineering talent through coaching and influence. Informal leadership experience is welcome, and the role offers an opportunity to grow in leadership. Strong experience in the public investments or asset management domain is essential; hands-on experience with large-scale investment management system implementations is preferred.
Requirements
- Strong experience in the public investments or asset management domain.
- Prior experience with one or more Public Investment Management Systems, such as Aladdin Enterprise, Calypso, Bloomberg, or Charles River.
- 8+ years of software and data engineering experience, with strong full-stack and data platform expertise.
- Strong hands-on technical skills, including designing solutions and guiding engineers through code.
- Experience providing technical leadership, formal or informal, and a desire to grow in 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 technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- Hands-on experience with large-scale IMS implementations.
- Experience modernizing legacy applications and data pipelines.
- Experience with platform migration programs and phased cutover strategies.
- Experience defining shared engineering standards across multiple teams.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the hands-on technical lead for large-scale Investment Management System (IMS) implementations, from design through delivery.
- Define and communicate technical direction for the Public Investments team, aligning 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 and REST APIs), and data platforms (dbt and Snowflake), with clear interface contracts and data lineage.
- Work through complex design problems with the team, review code, and provide hands-on guidance.
- Drive technical decomposition and sequencing for initiatives spanning applications, APIs, pipelines, and warehouse models.
- Establish and enforce standards for code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and operational readiness.
- Own technical risk management, identifying architecture, integration, performance, and security risks early.
- Ensure API and data integrations are resilient, well-documented, and reusable across teams.
- Improve data reliability and trust by guiding warehouse model quality, transformation design, and warehouse performance optimization.
- Support production stability by guiding incident response, root-cause analysis, and preventive engineering improvements.
- Lead engineers, including coaching, growth, performance management, and career development.
- Build an engineering culture centered on ownership, quality, learning, and constructive feedback; lead technical and delivery reviews and develop team capability through coaching, pairing, mentorship, and 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 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 clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including under ambiguity.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
