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Skills and Competencies
10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years leading multi-team engineering organizations.
Deep hands-on expertise across Python, Java, C#, and modern front-end frameworks such as React or Angular.
Strong architectural experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including cloud-native design, distributed systems, and scalable application patterns.
Proficiency in building and governing microservices architectures, orchestration frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code, and cloud-security best practices.
Demonstrated success overseeing multi-squad engineering delivery with a focus on quality, reliability, and operational excellence.
Strong understanding of SQL/NoSQL databases, event-driven workflows, and modern data integration patterns.
Ability to guide modernization initiatives, including deconstructing legacy monoliths into modular, scalable platforms.
Proven capability in talent development, coaching, and shaping high-performing engineering cultures.
Experience driving cross-functional alignment with Product, Platform Engineering, CloudOps, Security, and Data teams.
Adept at defining and governing engineering health metrics—quality, reliability, velocity, cost—while ensuring compliance and lifecycle rigor.
Comfortable navigating ambiguity, leading change management, and driving cloud transformation at scale.

Education
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline—or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities
Lead and scale multiple engineering squads building cloud-native, full-stack applications for high-impact business domains.
Define and execute the modernization strategy, shaping long-term architectural evolution and cloud adoption roadmaps.
Drive end-to-end engineering excellence across microservices, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and platform capabilities.
Oversee delivery quality, system reliability, security posture, and operational maturity across mission-critical applications.
Partner closely with Product, Platform, CloudOps, Security, and Data teams to enable consistent planning, prioritization, and technical alignment.
Establish and elevate engineering standards across testing, CI/CD, DevSecOps, observability, documentation, and governance.
Mentor senior, staff, and mid-level engineers, cultivating a high-performance culture rooted in technical depth, collaboration, and accountability.
Lead organizational capability-building through operating model improvements, process governance, and lifecycle management.
Manage portfolio-level trade-offs—including budgeting, sequencing, and build-versus-buy decisions—to maximize value and delivery velocity.
Clarify and govern OKRs and engineering health metrics, ensuring transparency and alignment to business goals.
Drive architectural rigor and security-by-design principles across all systems.
Lead change management initiatives to support scaling, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Influence decision-making across technical and non-technical stakeholders through clear communication and strategic storytelling.
Guide teams through complex technical challenges while proactively managing risks and ensuring regulatory and compliance readiness.
Promote platform resilience and cloud transformation strategies aligned to business outcomes and risk appetite.

About the team
This senior leadership role sets the engineering vision and drives the end-to-end modernization and cloud transformation agenda for Moody's Casualty and Financial Lines. Overseeing multiple full-stack squads, the Director ensures architectural rigor, platform resilience, security-by-design, and operational excellence across mission-critical systems. The role aligns technology outcomes to business strategy, regulatory expectations, and risk appetite while stewarding portfolio prioritization, budget trade-offs, and build-versus-buy decisions to maximize value and velocity.
Beyond technical direction, the Director strengthens organizational capability-establishing operating models and standards, improving cross-functional planning with Product, Platform, CloudOps, Security, and Data partners, and developing diverse, high-performing teams. The role clarifies OKRs and engineering health metrics (quality, reliability, velocity, cost), governs lifecycle and compliance processes, and leads change management so squads can scale, innovate, and deliver with confidence.

Moody’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Candidates for Moody's Corporation may be asked to disclose securities holdings pursuant to Moody’s Policy for Securities Trading and the requirements of the position. Employment is contingent upon compliance with the Policy, including remediation of positions in those holdings as necessary.