Senior AI Platform Architect & Engineering Leader

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Parental leave

401(k) plan

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Stock purchase plan

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Moody's Digital Content and Innovation team seeks a Director to lead strategy, delivery, and evolution of mission-critical AI platforms and intelligent applications while driving engineering excellence across the organization.

You will define long-term technical roadmaps, grow and organize multiple teams, guide AI-powered solutions using large language models, maintain governance, and partner with product, risk, legal, and compliance to maximize value while ensuring responsible AI.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams with measurable business impact.
• Experience leading multiple teams or groups of teams, including managing engineering managers, technical leads, and staff-level engineers.
• Deep expertise in enterprise AI applications built on large language models, including agents, retrieval augmented generation, orchestration frameworks, model optimization, and evaluation frameworks.
• Experience running AI systems in production at scale, including observability, cost and capacity planning, regression detection, and incident response for AI-powered applications.
• Deep knowledge of cloud-native technologies, serverless architectures, data/inference pipelines, relational/NoSQL and vector databases, and modern software patterns.
• Proven track record of owning multi-year technical strategy and architectural roadmaps, guiding teams from AI prototype through production deployment.

Responsibilities

• 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 with accountability for delivery outcomes across the portfolio.
• Drive architectural decisions, organizational alignment, and integration of AI-powered solutions using LLMs, retrieval augmented generation, orchestration frameworks, and agentic workflows.
• Establish engineering excellence through architecture reviews, code reviews, automated testing, observability, security standards, and ML operations practices.
• Own budget planning and cost management including headcount, cloud infra, model consumption, tooling investments, vendor relationships, and build-versus-buy decisions.
• Partner with product, risk, legal, compliance, and audit stakeholders to maximize customer value and implement responsible AI governance practices.
• Attract, develop, and retain engineering talent through mentoring and succession planning.
• Define and report on key metrics that demonstrate platform adoption, delivery performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Team leadership

TypeScript

Python

C#

Enterprise AI

AI in production

Cloud-native

Data pipelines

Strategy & roadmaps

Education

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

Job description

Moody's Digital Content and Innovation team seeks a Director to lead strategy, delivery, and evolution of mission-critical AI platforms and intelligent applications while driving engineering excellence across the organization.

You will define long-term technical roadmaps, grow and organize multiple teams, guide AI-powered solutions using large language models, maintain governance, and partner with product, risk, legal, and compliance to maximize value while ensuring responsible AI.