The Investment Growth value stream powers user engagement, digital account opening, asset movement, and advisor-client scheduling experiences across our wealth management platform. These capabilities directlyimpactconversion, onboarding, funding, and long-term client retention.

We are seeking a transformational Director of Engineering to lead multiple product-aligned engineering teams in India. This leader will scale engineering excellence across cloud-native Java platforms, elevate Agile and release maturity, and strengthen Site Reliability Engineering discipline — while delivering secure, compliant financialsystems atscale.

This role blends strategic leadership, operational rigor, and technical depth. You will lead managers and engineering teams, deliver high-priority enterprise initiatives, and elevate execution maturity across the value stream.

Key Responsibilities

Organizational Leadership
• Lead multiple engineering teams, including managing managers
• Build and scale a high-performing engineering organization in India
• Develop technical bench strength and succession plans
• Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, and engineering excellence

Technical Strategy & Architecture
• Define and execute technical strategy aligned to business growth objectives
• Drive cloud-native architecture strategy across Java/Spring Boot microservices
• Guide modernization of legacy systems toward event-driven, resilient architectures
• Ensure scalable, secure, highly available system designs
• Oversee complex third-party and vendor integrations
• Partner closely with Product, Architecture, Risk, and Compliance stakeholders

Agile Maturity & Delivery Excellence
• Elevate Agile execution maturity across multiple teams
• Improve planning discipline, estimation quality, and cross-team dependency management
• Strengthen “definition of done,” quality gates, and engineering standards
• Drive measurable improvements in delivery predictability and throughput

Site Reliability Engineering & Operational Resilience
• Build and mature Site Reliability Engineering practices
• Improve observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response
• Drive improvements in reliability, uptime, MTTR, and production stability
•EstablishSLAs, SLOs, and error budgetsappropriate forfinancial systems
• Embed reliability engineering into development lifecycle practices

Operational Accountability
• Own end-to-end engineering outcomes across roadmap delivery and production health
• Balance innovation and experimentation with regulatory and operational rigor
• Report progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly to senior leadership

Required Qualifications
• 10+ years of engineering leadership experience, including significant people management
• Proven experience managing managers and scaling multi-team organizations
• Proven experience partnering across Business, Product, and Architecture to deliver technical solutions that drive business outcomes
• Strong background in financial services, fintech, or wealth management
• Deep experience building and scaling systems on AWS
• Strong technical foundation in Java and distributed architectures
• Demonstrated experience leading complex vendor integrations
• Experience operating in regulated environments with strong security and compliance requirements
• Proven track record improving Agile delivery maturity across multiple teams
• Experience establishing structured release management processes in multi-team environments
• Experience implementing or leading SRE practices, including observability and incident management
• Demonstrated ability to improve engineering performance metrics (e.g., deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR)

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with digital account opening or onboarding systems
• Experience with asset movement systems (ACH, ACAT, journals)
• Experience building experimentation platforms for growth optimization
• Experience leading engineering transformation initiatives in high-growth environments