Director of AI Platforms & Enterprise Software

PassFort; New York (NY); On-site; USD 192,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Moody's is seeking a Director to lead AI platform strategy and the evolution of intelligent applications within its Digital Content and Innovation group. You will guide multi-year architecture, scale AI systems in production, and drive engineering excellence across teams of engineering managers and staff engineers.

You will own the budget, cloud infrastructure decisions, and partner with product, risk, and legal teams to ensure responsible AI governance and measurable business impact.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams and delivering complex, large-scale, multi-team initiatives with measurable business impact.
• Experience leading multiple teams or groups of teams, including managing engineering managers, technical leads, and staff-level engineers with accountability for delivery outcomes across a portfolio.
• Strong technical depth in TypeScript, Python, C#, or similar technologies, with the ability to engage credibly in architecture and code reviews, challenge design decisions, and assess technical risk.
• Deep expertise in enterprise AI applications built on large language models, including agents, retrieval augmented generation, orchestration frameworks, model optimization, and evaluation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, delivery, and evolution of mission-critical AI platforms and intelligent applications while driving engineering excellence across the Digital Content and Innovation organization.
• Define and execute long-term technical strategies while owning the multi-year architecture and technology roadmap for AI platforms and applications.
• Lead, grow, and organize multiple engineering teams, including engineering managers, technical leads, and staff-level engineers, with accountability for delivery outcomes across the portfolio.
• Drive architectural decisions, organizational alignment, and integration of AI-powered solutions using large language models, retrieval augmented generation, orchestration frameworks, and agentic workflows.
• Establish engineering excellence through architecture reviews, code reviews, automated testing, observability, security standards, operational excellence, and machine learning operations practices.
• Own budget planning and cost management, including headcount, cloud infrastructure, model consumption, tooling investments, vendor relationships, and build-versus-buy decisions.
• Partner with product, business, risk, legal, compliance, and audit stakeholders to maximize customer value and implement responsible AI governance practices.
• Attract, develop, and retain engineering talent through mentoring, succession planning, performance coaching, and the cultivation of future engineering leaders.
• Define and report on key metrics that demonstrate platform adoption, delivery performance, reliability, cost efficiency, and measurable business impact.

Skills

Engineering leadership

AI/ML architecture

TypeScript/Python/C# depth

Production AI systems

Cloud-native / serverless

Observability / MLOps

Multi-team leadership

Roadmap & strategy

Education

Bachelor\'s or Master\'s in CS/Eng/AI

Job description

Moody's is seeking a Director to lead AI platform strategy and the evolution of intelligent applications within its Digital Content and Innovation group. You will guide multi-year architecture, scale AI systems in production, and drive engineering excellence across teams of engineering managers and staff engineers.

You will own the budget, cloud infrastructure decisions, and partner with product, risk, and legal teams to ensure responsible AI governance and measurable business impact.