Director, Software Development Engineering

About Envestnet

Envestnet is an adaptive WealthTech company that is redefining the future of wealth management by helping advisors meet the moment with its comprehensive technology, actionable insights, and industry leading support. Backed by over 25 years of experience and approximately $7.0 trillion in platform assets, Envestnet is trusted by over one third of financial advisors across leading banks, wealth managers, brokerages, and RIAs.

The Team You'll Join

On the Tamarac development team, we build one of the industry's most advanced portfolio management and trading platforms for RIAs. We tackle complex engineering challenges every day from large-scale data ingestion and analytics to deep system integrations, high-performance trading algorithms, and a robust full-stack web experience used by thousands of advisors. As we continue to scale the platform—supporting 50+ million trades annually—we're modernizing our architecture to meet growing demand while delivering innovative, advisor-focused features. Our engineers collaborate across disciplines to build AI-powered insights, enhance cross-platform capabilities, and design resilient, cloud-native systems. This is a rare opportunity to join us in shaping the technical roadmap of a leading trading platform—driving how we scale, evolve, and deliver capabilities that elevate both the advisor and client experience, with real-world impact from day one.

How You'll Contribute

Envestnet is seeking a Director, Software Development Engineering to lead teams building scalable technology foundations that support high-quality product delivery. This role will guide engineering leaders and teams working with cloud platforms, shared services, developer enablement capabilities, reliability practices, data governance, modern delivery methods, and AI-enabled engineering workflows.

• Defines engineering strategy and execution model for a major domain.
• Owns end-to-end delivery outcomes across multiple teams, including roadmap execution and customer impact.
• Translates business objectives into multi-quarter engineering plans and measurable outcomes.
• Establishes domain-level architecture direction in partnership with senior technical leaders.
• Drives regulatory compliance and data governance within the domain.
• Manages budget, headcount planning, and organizational design for the function.
• Implements performance frameworks using KPIs (availability, latency, cost efficiency, quality trends).
• Influences prioritization and trade-offs across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
• Leads organizational transformation initiatives (e.g., platform modernization, cloud migration, platform consolidation).
• Builds leadership bench strength through structured succession planning.
• Drives adoption of agentic coding practices across engineering teams as a strategic lever to increase productivity and reduce time-to-delivery throughout the SDLC.

What You'll Need to Bring

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including experience leading managers, technical leads, or multiple engineering teams across a major domain.
• Experience driving adoption of agentic coding practices or AI-enabled engineering workflows to improve productivity, quality, and time-to-delivery across the SDLC.
• Experience establishing domain-level architecture direction in partnership with senior technical leaders, including platform modernization, cloud migration, or platform consolidation initiatives.
• Experience driving regulatory compliance, data governance, security, and quality practices within an engineering domain.
• Experience establishing and managing engineering KPIs, including availability, latency, cost efficiency, quality trends, delivery predictability, and customer impact.
• Experience managing budget, headcount planning, organizational design, hiring strategy, performance management, and succession planning for engineering teams.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence prioritization and trade-offs across engineering, product, and business leaders.
• Experience building leadership bench strength and inspiring high-performing teams through structured coaching, development, and accountability.
• Strong technical background with .NET, xUnit, Reqnroll, RESTful APIs, and API management solutions such as Apigee.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Redis, and ElastiCache.
• Experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, ELB, ASG, API Gateway, Lambda, RDS, EKS, CloudWatch, SQS.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, DevOps practices, automation, agile delivery, Scrum, and test-driven development.

Pay

This role offers a base salary range of $202,600 to $253,300. The range listed represents a good-faith estimate of base salary compensation for this position and does not include incentive compensation, equity or benefits. Individual pay will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, education, certifications, and geographic location, in accordance with applicable pay transparency laws. This role is eligible for an additional incentive component as part of the total rewards package.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Paid time off (PTO)
• 401k company match
• Paid parental leave
• Education reimbursement
• Disability coverage
• Mental health & wellness support