Director, AI Platforms & Engineering

Moody's; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 192,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Parental leave

Paid time off

401(k) with company match

Life, disability & accident insurance

Employee stock purchase plan

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Moody's is seeking a Director-level leader to strategize, deliver, and evolve mission-critical AI platforms and intelligent applications across the Digital Content and Innovation organization.

You will define long-term technical roadmaps, grow multiple engineering teams, and drive AI-powered solutions at scale, with governance and cost management as priority. The role emphasizes accountable leadership and measurable business impact.

Qualifications

• 12+ years software engineering with 5+ years leading teams and multi-team initiatives.
• Experience leading multiple teams including managers and staff engineers.
• Strong depth in TypeScript, Python, C#, or similar.
• Deep expertise in enterprise AI apps on LLMs, agents, RAG, orchestration.
• Experience running AI systems in production at scale.
• Knowledge of cloud-native, serverless, event-driven architectures, and data/inference pipelines.
• Track record owning multi-year technical strategy and roadmaps.
• Leadership in responsible AI governance and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute long-term technical strategies and multi-year roadmaps for AI platforms.
• Lead and grow multiple engineering teams with accountability for delivery.
• Drive architectural decisions, alignment, and AI-powered solution integration.
• Establish engineering excellence through reviews, testing, observability, and security.
• Own budget planning, cloud infra, tooling, and vendor relationships.
• Partner with product, risk, legal, compliance, and audit stakeholders.
• Mentor and develop engineering leaders; manage succession planning.
• Define and report metrics on adoption, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Skills

Leadership

AI architectures

Cloud-native

TypeScript / Python / C#

AI production systems

Data & DBs

Roadmaps

Responsible AI

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering/AI

Tools

None

Job description

Moody's is seeking a Director-level leader to strategize, deliver, and evolve mission-critical AI platforms and intelligent applications across the Digital Content and Innovation organization.

You will define long-term technical roadmaps, grow multiple engineering teams, and drive AI-powered solutions at scale, with governance and cost management as priority. The role emphasizes accountable leadership and measurable business impact.