Senior Director, Engineering - Risk & Performance

SimCorp; København; Hybrid; DKK 1,200,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global hybrid work policy

Growth and innovation

Self- Direction

Inclusive and diverse culture

Pension and health benefits and bonus

Work-life balance

Empowerment

Involvement in shaping work processes

Job summary

SimCorp, a global FinTech leader, seeks a Senior Director/Director of Engineering to guide technical vision and execution across Risk and Performance domains. You will lead large, distributed teams, drive innovation, and deliver secure, high-quality software in close collaboration with Product, Design and Business stakeholders.

You will own multiple product areas, manage dependencies, and shape long-term engineering strategy to support SimCorp's growth and transformation.

Qualifications

• Experience leading leaders of engineering teams across large product areas.
• Strong track record in aligning engineering with product, design and business goals.
• Deep understanding of engineering principles in FinTech and risk/performance domains.
• Experience using AI tools in the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership as a leader of leaders and their engineering teams—setting clear direction, promoting collaboration and growth, and ensuring alignment with SimCorp's vision and objectives
• Promote a culture of innovation, accountability, and technical excellence—creating an engaging environment that fosters growth, collaboration, and the delivery of premium-quality software
• Align engineering priorities with product strategy, ensuring focus on business-critical initiatives while enabling continuous improvement and scalability across teams
• Collaborate with your engineering peers and optimize systems for effective strategy execution
• Partner with the architecture team to maintain clear technical direction and shape long-term engineering strategies that support scalability and innovation
• Build the right capabilities within teams to meet current and future business needs, with overall responsibility for the health and evolution of multiple products within Risk and Performance
• Enable cross-team and cross-product-area planning and execution across your Risk and Performance area, and manage conflicting priorities and stakeholder expectations
• Communicate, execute, and follow up on executive strategy across your organization
• Stay on top of potential customer incidents and escalations, seeing them through to resolution

Skills

Leadership of leaders

Engineering strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

Investment Management Risk

AI tools in SDLC

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

Job description

SimCorp, a global FinTech leader, seeks a Senior Director/Director of Engineering to guide technical vision and execution across Risk and Performance domains. You will lead large, distributed teams, drive innovation, and deliver secure, high-quality software in close collaboration with Product, Design and Business stakeholders.

You will own multiple product areas, manage dependencies, and shape long-term engineering strategy to support SimCorp's growth and transformation.