Director, Engineering

Job Description:

AssetMark is a leading wealth management platform dedicated to empowering independent financial advisors. AssetMark's mission is to enable financial advisors to make a profound difference in the lives of their clients. Over 10,000 advisors partner with AssetMark for our investment offerings, innovative technology, advanced services, and expertise, which they use to delight their clients and grow their businesses.

The Job/What You'll Do:

We are seeking a Director, Engineering, to lead the design and implementation of critical UI Engineering and UX foundational architecture. This senior role involves owning significant UI Engineering capabilities, driving architectural decisions, and establishing technical standards that enable our entire UI engineering organization. You'll work on transformational platform initiatives while mentoring other engineers and ensuring our technology foundation scales with business growth.

We can consider candidates for this position who are able to accommodate a hybrid work schedule and are close to our Charlotte, NC office.

Key Responsibilities

• Thought leadership: Define and execute the technical vision for our UI architecture, championing declarative, configuration-driven approaches that separate presentation logic from backend code.

• Software Development: Lead and mentor a team of senior frontend engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and collaborative problem-solving. Should have hands-on ability to write clean, maintainable code following team standards and best practices, with opportunities to progressively take ownership of feature components. Review code written by other engineers following critical coding, design and security standards

• Collaboration: Partner with Product, Design, and Quality Engineering to align platform capabilities and user experience goals

• Problem Solving: Apply deep analytical thinking to resolve technical challenges and propose innovative solutions. Provide guidance to Engineers for tools and techniques needed for Problem solving.

• Documentation: Help create and maintain clear, comprehensive documentation for code and technical processes that support team knowledge sharing, using GenAI tools and techniques

• Continuous Improvement: Actively participate in code reviews, team meetings, and retrospectives to develop professional and technical skills with a focus on advancing to more complex assignments
   

Architecture & Design:

• Design and implement critical UI Components, features and foundational systems

• Shape overall application architecture through both written specifications and hands-on code implementation

• Build and maintain enhanced UI frameworks that implement AssetMark application specific demands making software development easier for application teams

• Drive AssetMark towards target state UI architecture through strategic technical decisions

• Author technical design documents for complex platform UI Engineering capabilities

Advanced Application Development:

• Create enterprise-scale solutions for Application governance, and service integration

• Implement large-scale refactoring initiatives to improve platform code quality and performance

• Design and implement standardized patterns for UI/ UX, Backend for Frontend (BFF) service integration and cross-application workflows

• Establish and enforce design principles, versioning strategies, and governance models

Technical Leadership & Standards:

• Improve platform development practices and processes across multiple teams

• Teach other engineers effective platform development and code review techniques

• Help establish platform community practices around secure coding, data privacy, and design standards

• Balance technical debt with platform evolution while maintaining enterprise reliability

• Coordinate platform work across multiple development teams and resolve complex technical dependencies

Knowledge, Skills &a