Vice President, Credit Engineering Lead
$250,000–$275,000 year
On-siteNew York City, New York, United States
Job Summary
Lead the design, development, and delivery of technology solutions supporting the firm's global credit investment platform. Actively contribute to software development while establishing engineering standards, modern architecture patterns, and software delivery best practices. Lead a team of software engineers accountable for the end-to-end software development lifecycle across credit technology initiatives, including deal origination, underwriting, portfolio monitoring, risk management, and investment analytics. Architect and deploy applications using cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, and modern full-stack development practices. Partner closely with Product Management, Credit Investment Professionals, and broader Investment Technology leadership to deliver scalable, resilient, and high-performing technology solutions.
Required Qualifications
- 9-12 years of progressive software engineering experience delivering enterprise technology solutions
- 4+ years leading software engineering teams, technical organizations, or major technology initiatives
- Demonstrated experience leading end-to-end software delivery within financial services environments
- Experience supporting investment management, asset management, capital markets, banking, or alternative investment platforms
- Proven track record building and operating business-critical applications within regulated environments
- Experience partnering directly with product management, investment professionals, portfolio managers, operations teams, and senior business stakeholders
- Experience leading modernization, platform transformation, organizational change, or cloud adoption initiatives
- Experience mentoring and developing engineering talent
- Advanced Java development expertise
- Advanced React and TypeScript expertise
- Deep expertise with relational and non-relational database technologies
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures
- Strong API and integration design expertise
- Strong knowledge of messaging and streaming technologies
- Experience with cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Experience with Kubernetes and containerized application platforms
- Experience designing highly scalable, highly available enterprise applications
- Deep understanding of software architecture, engineering design patterns, and engineering best practices
- Strong SDLC, CI/CD, automated testing, and DevOps expertise
- Experience defining engineering standards and code quality practices
- Strong troubleshooting, performance optimization, and operational support capabilities
- Ability to balance architecture, delivery, quality, and hands-on development responsibilities
- Hands-on technical leader comfortable contributing code alongside the engineering team
- Strong architecture, system design, and technical decision-making capabilities
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to build alignment across technology, product, investment, and operations teams
- Ability to influence engineering direction through leadership, expertise, and sound judgment
- High level of ownership, accountability, and execution focus
Desired Qualifications
- Experience supporting credit investment, lending, portfolio management, or alternative asset management platforms
- Strong preference for candidates with experience supporting direct lending, private credit, syndicated loans, CLOs, portfolio management, credit risk, or alternative asset management platforms
- Familiarity with DealCloud, or other pipeline management systems, credit systems such as Allvue
- WSO is a big plus
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