Senior Director of Security Engineering

What you'll do

• Direct the centralized engineering organization that builds and owns all CTC Architecture software products.
• Organize software engineers into product-aligned pods covering threat modeling, automation, and quality platforms.
• Own technical architecture decisions across the portfolio and serve as the escalation point for production incidents.
• Allocate pooled engineering capacity based on the annual Operating Plan, portfolio priority, and risk reduction.
• Establish engineering standards, operating models, and delivery practices consistently across all pods.
• Manage hiring, performance, staffing, and career development for the combined software engineering team.
• Define and track delivery, quality, and adoption metrics to tie engineering investment to measurable outcomes.
• Provide engineering sign-off on release readiness alongside CTC Architecture domain leads.

What we're looking for

• Formal training or certificate with 15+ years of experience building and shipping software at enterprise scale.
• Experience leading software engineering teams, including performance management, staffing, and career development.
• Track record of delivering and operating a platform or tool that other engineering teams depend on, ideally incorporating AI/ML.
• Experience leading a centralized or shared-services engineering team that serves multiple product owners and manages finite capacity.
• Track record of standing up or restructuring an engineering organization, including operating models and delivery standards.
• Command of modern software delivery at scale, including architecture, SRE, DevOps, quality engineering, and production operations.
• Experience partnering with product management on roadmaps, business cases, and investment decisions.
• Working knowledge of secure-by-design engineering and financial-services regulatory expectations.
• Prior experience leading an internal platform, product engineering, or security tooling organization at a large enterprise (preferred).
• Hands-on familiarity with AI/LLM systems in production, including evaluation, guardrails, and model governance (preferred).
• Experience integrating engineering teams that previously reported into separate leaders (preferred).
• Familiarity with pooled capacity models and experience setting hiring, leveling, or development standards for senior technical talent (preferred).
• CISSP, CISM, advanced cloud architecture certifications, or comparable senior credentials (preferred).