UTA seeks a Director to lead engineering execution for our enterprise financial systems. This role is responsible for building and scaling the platforms that power payments, invoicing, revenue recognition, and deal execution across the company. You will drive technical strategy, lead system design, and ensure the delivery of reliable, secure, and compliant backend services. This is a hands-on engineering leadership role—focused on execution, architecture, and cross-functional delivery across AWS infrastructure and enterprise systems such as NetSuite, Salesforce, and banking/payment platforms.
The salary range for this role is $250,000 to $300,000 commensurate with experience and skills.
What You Will Do
Platform Engineering & Architecture
- Own the design and development of scalable backend services for payments, revenue recognition, and financial workflows
- Lead end-to-end development of backend services (Node.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL) and frontend applications (React, TypeScript)
- Design APIs, data models, and UI integrations to deliver cohesive financial tools and internal dashboards
- Provide full-stack ownership across key financial systems
- Lead integrations with ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite), Salesforce, treasury tools, and banking/payment providers
- Define service boundaries, reliability SLAs, and domain models aligned with high-volume financial operations
- Architect cloud-native systems on AWS using Lambda, ECS/EKS, RDS, SQS, CloudWatch, and EventBridge
Security Engineering & Compliance
- Embed security-first principles across system design, architecture, and development
- Implement defense-in-depth strategies, including fine-grained IAM, encryption at rest and in transit, and auditable data flows
- Design secure workflows for financial transactions, client data, and third-party integrations
- Partner with InfoSec to ensure alignment with zero-trust models, least-privilege access, and continuous monitoring
- Lead efforts in service hardening, secure CI/CD pipelines, secret management, and proactive risk mitigation
- Ensure all platform components meet internal controls and compliance standards
Leadership & Execution
- Manage and grow a high-performing team of backend and platform engineers
- Drive roadmap execution and delivery of complex, cross-functional initiatives
- Foster a culture of engineering excellence, operational discipline, and ownership
- Serve as the technical escalation point for architectural trade-offs, production challenges, and system design
Collaboration & Technical Execution
- Partner with product managers, architects, external vendors, and finance stakeholders to deliver end-to-end features
- Translate financial and contractual rules into deterministic, reusable service logic
- Drive quality, automation, and performance in domains where accuracy and compliance are essential
What You Will Need
- 10+ years of engineering experience, including 4+ years leading backend/platform teams or delivering complex financial systems
- Expertise in backend engineering with Node.js, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL (or equivalent)
- Strong background in AWS architecture (or other Cloud Architecture)
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
- Experience with event-driven systems and microservice architectures
- Proven track record delivering systems with high audit/compliance requirements
- Familiarity with enterprise platforms like NetSuite, Salesforce, Concur, or Stripe
- Strong understanding of data modeling, transactional workflows, and secure service architecture
- Experience working in compliance-focused environments requiring auditability and financial precision
- Experience with financial systems such as payments, trust accounting, GL integration, and revenue recognition
- Prior exposure to platforms with complex domain logic (e.g., deal tracking, contingent compensation, or booking systems)
- Experience with serverless architecture and Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) patterns
- Understanding of multi-party payments, invoicing workflows, and tax handling (e.g., 1099s, VAT)
- Exposure to platform compliance tools (e.g., Datadog compliance checks, AWS Config, Prisma, or Wiz)
- Understanding of data privacy requirements (e.g., PII, GDPR, CCPA) and secure data flows
What You Will Get
- The unique and exciting opportunity to work at one of the leading global entertainment companies
- Access to the tools, leadership, and resources you will need to create and drive a center of excellence
- The opportunity to do the best work of your career
- Work in an inclusive and diverse company culture
- Competitive benefits and programs to support your well-being
- Experience working in a collaborative environment with room to grow
About UTA
UTA unites ideas, opportunities and talent. The company represents some of the world's most iconic, barrier-breaking artists, creators and changemakers—from actors, athletes and musicians to writers, gamers and digital influencers. One of the most influential companies in global entertainment, UTA's business spans talent representation, content production, as well as strategic advisory and marketing work with some of the world's biggest brands. Affiliated companies include Digital Brand Architects, KLUTCH Sports Group, Curtis Brown Group, and MediaLink. UTA is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Nashville, New York and London.
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UTA unites ideas, opportunities and talent. The company represents some of the world’s most iconic, barrier-breaking artists, creators and changemakers—from actors, athletes and musicians to writers, gamers and digital influencers. One of the most influential companies in global entertainment, UTA’s business spans talent representation and content production, as well as strategic advisory and marketing work with some of the world’s biggest brands. UTA is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Nashville, New York and London
