Director of Engineering, Client Analytics & Experience

This Director of Engineering role at Clearwater Analytics leads a team in developing high-quality software for major technology firms and financial institutions. Responsibilities include ensuring team success, growth, and output, providing mentorship, participating in Agile development, and driving feature enhancements. The role requires extensive experience in software development, front-end technologies, Fintech/Capital Markets, cloud platforms, and project management, focusing on scalable distributed systems and best engineering practices. This leadership position involves strategic decision-making and influencing company policies.

Must Have

• Lead a team in developing quality software.
• Ensure team success and output.
• Provide training and mentorship.
• Participate in Agile development.
• 10+ years in software development.
• 2+ years in a leadership role.
• 5+ years in Front-End development.
• 5+ years in Fintech or Capital Markets.
• Expertise in software engineering best practices.
• Experience with architecture and code reviews.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Proficiency in software design documentation.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Background in scalable distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Successfully managed projects end-to-end.

Good to Have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Proficiency in HTML5, CSS, JavaScript.
• Experience in full system design and architecture.
• Experience developing and designing public facing API.
• Experience with database scaling and design.

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team to develop quality software that is used by some of the world’s largest technology firms, fixed income asset managers, and security traders on Wall Street
• Responsible for ensuring a team’s success, growth, and output
• Providing training, guidance, and mentorship to individuals on the team
• Participating in Agile meetings to contribute with development strategies and product roadmap
• Producing tremendous feature enhancements and reacting quickly to emerging technologies
• Encouraging collaboration and stimulating creativity
• Providing leadership and expertise to our ever-growing workforce
• Develops corporate and/or organizational policies and authorizes their implementation.
• Detailed knowledge of company allows for innovative concepts and promoting new ideas.
• Provides direction to senior managers in various areas, groups, and/or operations.
• Recognized as an influential leader.
• Consistently works with abstract ideas or situations across functional areas of the business.
• Through assessment of intangible variables, identifies and evaluates fundamental issues, providing strategy and direction for major functional areas.
• Requires in-depth knowledge of the functional area, business strategies, and the company’s goals.
• Erroneous decisions will have a long-term effect on the company's success.
• Interacts internally and externally with executive level management, requiring negotiation of extremely critical matters. Influences policymaking.
• Directs and controls the activities of one or more functional areas, divisions, product groups or service areas through senior managers who have overall responsibility for the successful operation of those assigned areas.

Requirements:

• Over 5 years of experience in Front-End development
• Over 10 years of professional experience in software development, including 2+ years in a leadership role.
• 5+ years of experience in Fintech or Capital Markets, with a strong understanding of Private Markets preferred.
• Well-versed in best practices of professional software engineering throughout the entire software development life cycle.
• Experienced in providing technical guidance and feedback on architecture, code reviews, and best practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient in contributing to software design documentation, including presentations and sequence diagrams.
• Ability to clearly present complex technical designs in a straightforward manner.
• Experienced in working with both relational and NoSQL databases.
• Background in building highly scalable distributed software systems.
• Professional experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Successfully managed projects from requirements scoping through to launch.

Desired Experience or Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Proficiency using modern web development technologies and techniques, including (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript)
• Experience in full system design and architecture
• Experience developing and designing a public facing API
• Experience with database scaling and design

Welcome

Thank you for your interest in a career with Clearwater!

About us

Clearwater Analytics (NYSE: CWAN) is transforming investment management with the industry’s most comprehensive cloud-native platform for institutional investors across global public and private markets. While legacy systems create risk, inefficiency, and data fragmentation, Clearwater’s single-instance, multi-tenant architecture delivers real-time data and AI-driven insights throughout the investment lifecycle. The platform eliminates information silos by integrating portfolio management, trading, investment accounting, reconciliation, regulatory reporting, performance, compliance, and risk analytics in one unified system. Serving leading insurers, asset managers, hedge funds, banks, corporations, and governments, Clearwater supports over $8.8 trillion in assets globally. Learn more at www.clearwateranalytics.com.

Don’t meet every single requirement?

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the job description, we encourage you to still apply! You may be just what we're looking for.