Senior Director, Engineering – Corporates, Financial Institutions & Sovereigns Fitch Ratings is looking for a builder, a challenger, and a boundary-pusher to lead the engineering organization responsible for all applications and services powering our Corporates, Financial Institutions, and Sovereigns lines of business.

As Senior

Director, you will have executive ownership of four engineering teams comprising a couple of dozen engineers. You'll lead a talented, multidisciplinary group tackling some of the most consequential technology challenges in global financial intelligence — maintaining and evolving the systems that analysts and clients depend on today, while simultaneously building the next generation of platforms from a position of real creative freedom and organizational backing. Someone who has broken things in the pursuit of building something better, who sees constraints as invitations to be clever, and who brings an infectious sense of possibility that raises the ambition of everyone around them.

If you've spent time deep in machine learning or AI systems — not just using them, but building them — that's not just a bonus, it's the kind of background that makes this prospect even more compelling.

But this role goes far beyond any single discipline: it's about leading a culture of relentless innovation across every dimension of how software gets built and delivered. We'll Count on You ToChallenge the conventional and set a bolder technical vision Own the strategic direction, execution, and engineering culture of four high-performing full-stack engineering teams. Set a technical vision that doesn't just improve the current state but genuinely reimagines what's possible for the platforms powering Fitch's most critical analytical work.

Build, develop, and inspire exceptional people Lead, mentor, and empower a team of team leads and engineers across a range of technical backgrounds and experience levels. Foster a culture where intellectual curiosity is celebrated, where experimentation is encouraged, and where people feel safe enough to take risks and learn loudly from what doesn't work. Attract and retain engineers who are hungry, inventive, and proud of both the quality of what they ship today and the audacity of what they're building toward.

Reimagine and modernize critical platforms Oversee the full lifecycle of the applications and services central to Fitch's Corporates, Financial Institutions, and Sovereigns analytical workflows. Balance the discipline of maintaining production-grade systems with the creative ambition to tear down and rebuild what no longer serves the business well. Drive greenfield innovation without apology Identify and actively pursue opportunities to design and build net-new applications and platforms that replace or leapfrog legacy approaches.

Embrace the blank canvas — and bring the rigor of world-class software delivery with you. Whether that's LLM-powered workflows, ML models embedded in analytical processes, agentic automation, or AI-augmented developer tooling, bring the depth to evaluate, architect, and champion these capabilities with real technical conviction.



Influence across a complex and interconnected stakeholder landscape Act as a strategic partner to a broad and diverse set of stakeholders — including senior leadership, analytical teams, operations, and business relationship management — whose workflows and outcomes depend directly on the platforms your teams own.

Navigate a rich ecosystem of technical interdependencies, partnering with peer engineering teams whose systems integrate with, depend on, or are shaped by what your teams build. Build organizational credibility through consistent delivery, clear technical vision, and the ability to bring bold ideas to life in ways that earn trust across the business. 18+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with substantial time in senior technical leadership roles overseeing multiple teams and disciplines ~ a track record of building high-performing, inventive engineering cultures at meaningful scale ~ Deep technical credibility and hands-on instinct — strong command of modern software architecture, cloud-native platforms, and production-grade application delivery; Full-stack engineering expertise — proven background with contemporary enterprise technology stacks, including React, Java, and/or Python in production environments, deployed across AWS and/or Azure ~ A bias for experimentation and innovation — a demonstrable history of pushing technical boundaries, challenging inherited assumptions, and driving teams toward approaches that are meaningfully better — not just incrementally improved ~ comfort making bold architectural decisions in both constrained legacy and open greenfield environments ~ People leadership and talent development — demonstrated ability to attract, grow, and retain exceptional engineers and engineering leaders; a builder of teams as much as systems, with a genuine investment in the growth of the people around you ~ Cross-functional stakeholder management — proven ability to partner effectively across analytical, operational, and business-facing teams as well as peer technical organizations; Executive communication — the ability to translate bold technical vision for non-technical audiences, build trust through delivery, and make complex ideas land clearly at every level of the organization ~ Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related technical field — or equivalent expertise demonstrated through impact An ML or AI engineering background — if you've spent meaningful time building machine learning systems, training models, designing intelligent pipelines, or architecting AI-native applications, that depth is genuinely exciting for this role and will shape how you lead, what you build, and the kind of talent you attract Deep cloud-native expertise — hands-on mastery of AWS and/or Azure, Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, microservices architecture,



and sophisticated CI/CD and deployment pipelines for large-scale application delivery the ability to move between engineering credibility and strategic vision without losing altitude AI-native delivery leadership — direct experience implementing AI-augmented development lifecycles, intelligent testing pipelines, or AI-assisted tooling that materially raises the quality and velocity of engineering teams Transformation and platform modernization leadership — a history of successfully reimagining complex, production-critical platforms while maintaining delivery continuity and rallying teams around a compelling future state Financial services domain knowledge — familiarity with analytical workflows, credit ratings processes, or how technology creates leverage in financial decision-making Technical thought leadership — contributing to open source, speaking at industry events, publishing engineering content, or establishing technical direction that influences well beyond your immediate team Executive visibility and strategic influence — direct access to senior leadership, the platform to shape engineering direction across consequential lines of business, and the opportunity to leave a lasting mark on how global financial intelligence is delivered The intersection of depth and breadth — lead a capable, experienced engineering organization while simultaneously running a bold innovation agenda; this role sits at a genuinely rare intersection of operational accountability and creative freedom training and conferencebudgets; Career acceleration at scale — high visibility to the most senior leaders at Fitch, a clear path to principal and executive roles, and the opportunity to define what AI-driven financial technology looks like in practice Our global network of colleagues comes together to accomplish things greater than they ever could alone. We are building incredible things at Fitch and we invite you to join us on our journey.

About Fitch Group Fitch

Group is a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries.

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FOR TORONTO ROLES ONLY: Expected base pay rates for the role will be between 250,000 CAD and 325,000 CAD. Actual salaries will be determined on an individualized basis and may vary based on factors including but not limited to education, training, experience, past performance, and other job-related factors. Base pay is one part of Fitch’s total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, long-term incentives, and other benefits sponsored by Fitch. #

📌 Senior Director, Engineering - Corporates, Financial Institutions & Sovereigns (Toronto)
🏢 Fitch Ratings
📍 Toronto