Director Technology - Integration Platform Engineering

Gen II Careers•New York, NY

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Gen II is seeking a Director Technology to lead its Integration Platform function. The Data & Integration Platform connects more than 40 systems across Gen II’s fund administration technology estate. The integration function operates an AI-assisted integration factory for building, testing, and deploying adapters using Azure integration services. The Director is accountable for integration delivery and production support across the estate, the engineering team, and the technology, vendor relationships, and delivery infrastructure supporting the function. The Director is the technical owner of the integration platform and holds final accountability for its architecture, standards, and technology choices. The product function owns the platform roadmap; this role owns the function’s delivery capacity, commitments, and engineering direction. The position is primarily strategic and externally focused, working with business stakeholders and technology peers to agree delivery expectations, meet committed service levels, and develop the engineering practice. The Director also retains enough technical depth to contribute to delivery and incident resolution when needed, while building a team that can perform without relying on their direct intervention. AI-assisted engineering is already used across development, testing, and production support, and the Director is expected to advance that practice. The role reports to the Head of Architecture and works with peers in architecture, data, and product, with day-to-day technical leadership provided by a Tech Lead. The function is being established across the UK/EU and US to cover both user bases and the full working day; the Director will build the team, operating standards, and service model. The position has a flexible hybrid arrangement, with an expectation to work in the office 1–4 days per week as needed. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The salary range is $180,000–$220,000, plus a discretionary bonus and comprehensive benefits. Actual salary within the range depends on experience.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
10+ years in technology roles, including at least 3 years line-managing engineering teams; this is a requirement and should be evidenced in role history.
Experience owning an integration function or platform team at director or equivalent level, with accountability for platform architecture and technology as well as delivery and support.
Deep, hands-on experience with Azure integration services, including Function Apps, Logic Apps Standard, API Management, and Service Bus, sufficient to own architecture; must have designed and built integration solutions.
Demonstrable ownership of integration architecture at platform level, including target-state design, pattern libraries, standards, and technology selection, with decisions documented and defended through governance or review.
Sound judgment in non-functional design, including resilience, throughput, security, observability, and API governance, and experience identifying common integration-estate failure modes.
Track record operating a production support function against defined SLAs, including out-of-hours coverage and measurable service improvement.
Experience owning CI/CD and infrastructure as code for a delivery function, including pipelines, automated testing, deployment gates, and Bicep or an equivalent tool.
Established use of AI-assisted engineering in delivery and support, with Claude Code or an equivalent already embedded in team practices.
Credibility with senior stakeholders and ability to uphold positions on scope and feasibility at executive level while maintaining relationships.
Experience owning a software and services budget and vendor relationships.
Experience building a team from a small base rather than inheriting a mature team.
Legally authorized to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

Experience in fund administration, private capital, or broader financial services.
Experience working across US and UK/EU teams and time zones.
Strong C# background.

Responsibilities

Own integration delivery and production support across the estate, including delivery commitments, quality, and business service-level agreements.
Line-manage integration engineering staff and recruit for the open Tech Lead position and a growing team.
Establish team operations in partnership with the Tech Lead, who provides day-to-day technical direction to engineers and supports architecture and standards.
Own the support model, including out-of-hours coverage for critical P1/P2 incidents across US and EU time zones, and turn recurring incidents into lasting fixes.
Proactively report delivery and service performance to technology and business leadership.
Set standards for AI-assisted engineering with Claude Code, including its use for Function App scaffolding, Logic Apps workflows, APIM policies, infrastructure-as-code templates, and documentation.
Drive AI-assisted testing, including generated test cases, scaffolding, and routine test-coverage expansion.
Build AI-enabled support capabilities, including assisted triage and diagnosis, automated root-cause summaries, runbook generation, and progress toward self-healing support.
Establish the time and effort required to deliver adapters and reduce that cost through AI and reusable patterns.
Own integration-platform architecture, including target state, patterns, standards, and technology selection, aligned with cross-domain architecture.
Own CI/CD, automated test execution, deployment gates, and Bicep-based infrastructure as code for the integration estate, including Senior DevOps capability within the function.
Ensure adoption of the pattern library and reusable system wrappers so subsequent adapters for a platform cost materially less to deliver.
Maintain standards for observability, resilience, throughput, security, managed-identity authentication, and API governance through APIM.
Serve as the senior point of contact for integration service and delivery with application owners, operations leadership, and the wider technology estate; ensure new demand is directed through the product function.
Own function capacity and delivery commitments, make realistic commitments, and provide early notice of risks. Work spanning integration and data has a consolidated view and critical path held by product.
Work with product on roadmap and priorities, providing feasibility assessments and technical sequencing while business priority remains a product decision.
Partner with the data platform function so both parts of DIP operate as one platform for consumers, and work with architecture and quality engineering on standards and test automation.
Own tooling selection, platform licensing, and the function’s software and services budget.
Own vendor relationships for integration tooling and third-party platforms, including commercial discussions, service performance, and escalations.
Make and defend build-versus-buy decisions and retire tooling that is not providing value.