VP Lead Engineer, Market Risk Platform — Scale & Cloud

Selby Jennings; New York (NY); On-site; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings partners with a leading global financial institution to build a centralized technology organization, with roles based in New York City or Dallas, TX. You will serve as VP Lead Engineer, tackling distributed systems, large-scale data analytics platforms, and cloud modernization initiatives at scale.

The position offers high visibility, influence over architectural direction, and a hands-on leadership approach in a fast-growing engineering team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building distributed systems or large-scale enterprise platforms.
• Cloud experience (AWS preferred).
• Technical leadership experience while remaining hands-on.
• Strong system design and architecture skills.
• Financial services experience is helpful but not required.

Responsibilities

• Solve complex technical problems at scale across distributed systems and data platforms.
• Contribute to cloud modernization initiatives and platform architecture decisions.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership within a high-visibility engineering team.
• Collaborate with risk, analytics, and business functions to deliver robust systems.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

Technical leadership

System design

Financial services domain

Job description

Selby Jennings partners with a leading global financial institution to build a centralized technology organization, with roles based in New York City or Dallas, TX. You will serve as VP Lead Engineer, tackling distributed systems, large-scale data analytics platforms, and cloud modernization initiatives at scale.

The position offers high visibility, influence over architectural direction, and a hands-on leadership approach in a fast-growing engineering team.