Associate Director, Software Engineering

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering.

Principal responsibilities:

• Own the technical direction, architecture and engineering roadmap for the financial-planning platform in partnership with Product, Business and Architecture teams.
• Lead by example through hands-on design, development, code review, debugging and resolution of complex production issues.
• Design and deliver scalable, secure and resilient microservices and AI capabilities, including APIs, event-driven integration, AI agents, tool use, retrieval and orchestration.
• Apply AI and agentic workflows across requirements, development, testing, documentation and release processes to improve delivery speed, quality, automation and cost efficiency.
• Establish engineering and AI-development standards covering automated testing, CI/CD, evaluation, guardrails, observability, security and responsible use of AI.
• Own delivery from requirements clarification to production, managing priorities, dependencies, technical debt, risks and stakeholder expectations.
• Coach engineers, build a strong engineering culture and create reusable patterns and guidelines that help other teams adopt emerging technologies effectively.

Requirements:

• Deep hands-on expertise in either Java or Python, with substantial experience designing and delivering production-grade software.
• Proven technical leadership experience, including setting technical direction, leading complex delivery and developing engineers in a global team environment.
• Practical experience with generative AI or agentic systems, such as LLM integration, RAG, tool use, orchestration, evaluation and guardrails.
• Experience applying AI-enabled development practices to achieve measurable improvements in engineering productivity, quality or automation.
• Strong knowledge of microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, distributed systems, PostgreSQL, automated testing and CI/CD.
• Ability to translate business requirements into incremental production outcomes and clearly communicate technical options, risks and trade-offs to business and technology stakeholders.
• A growth mindset and the ability to evaluate emerging technologies, turn experiments into production capabilities and balance innovation with security, resilience and regulatory controls.
• Excellent written and spoken English.