Managing Director, Engineering Fellow

The Engineering Fellow is an executive-level technical leadership role at MSCI, reporting to the Chief Technology Officer. This role is responsible for the end-to-end technology strategy, architectural blueprint, and engineering excellence at MSCI. The position blends high-level business strategy with hands-on technical governance to deliver highly scalable, secure, and AI-native financial platforms used by clients across the globe.

• Technology Strategy & Architecture
• Architectural Blueprinting: Define and drive the long-term, durable technical architecture for all Product and Business lines at MSCI.
• AI-Native Transformation: Spearhead the integration of advanced technologies like Generative AI and machine learning directly into core products and client experiences to benefit clients.
• Cloud & Platform Evolution: Oversee the migration, scaling, and cost optimization of high-availability cloud-native solutions.
• Technical Governance: Establish design systems, guardrails, and quality frameworks to evaluate solution designs, identify capability gaps, and manage architectural risks.
• Engineering & Operational Excellence
• Developer Velocity: Champion Agentic Engineering, infrastructure improvements and developer tools that eliminate engineering friction, fostering "speed as a habit" across global teams.
• Resiliency & Scalability: Ensure zero-downtime, sub-second latency, and robust disaster recovery capabilities for critical products.
• Data Privacy & Compliance: Work closely with security teams to ensure systems are fully compliant with global regulations and data privacy laws.
• Leadership & Talent Management
• Talent Stewardship: Act as a primary mentor and coach for the organization's highest technical talent, including Distinguished Engineers, Principal Engineers, and Enterprise Architects.
• Boundaryless Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional executive stakeholders-including Product Management, Experience Design (XD), and Data Science-to align technology investments with business growth targets.
• M&A Integration: Drive technical due diligence and lead the architectural integration of acquired platforms and third-party independent software vendor (ISV) ecosystems into MSCI Product lines.
• Experience: 15+ years of software product development experience with a strong track record of delivering enterprise-grade platforms at scale.
• Leadership: 3-5+ years in an executive-level leadership role managing and coaching globally distributed engineering and architecture teams.
• Technical Expertise: Deep expertise across the entire full-stack software development lifecycle-specifically cloud infrastructure, distributed data stores, transactional APIs, financial security compliance, and AI/ML data frameworks.
• Education: Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or an equivalent technical field (an MBA or relevant advanced engineering degree is highly preferred).
• Domain Expertise: Knowledge of Financial Services is preferred.