Senior Director & Head of Investment Engineering - LMI Technology
- Liberty Mutual
- Boston, MA
Job Description
Description
The Company
Liberty Mutual Investments (LMI) is the investment firm for Liberty Mutual Group (Liberty) and is responsible for powering Liberty’s strategy amid profound change in global capital markets. With deep expertise in fixed income, equity, and alternative strategies, LMI invests $120+ billion (as of 12/31/2025) of capital globally, taking a long-term approach across its integrated platform and has a team of over 350 investment, finance, and operations professionals located in Boston, MA, and New York, NY.
LMI has a clear purpose: build enduring businesses side-by-side with our partners, drive economic growth, and generate superior risk-adjusted returns that power Liberty’s strategy and secure its promises. We offer the best of both worlds — the look and feel of a boutique investment firm with the reputation and financial strength of a global leader. As the investment firm of a mutual with long-term capital, LMI has a single client mandate. This gives us the freedom to focus on what we do best.
Our portfolio spans a broad spectrum of public and private investments, and we are committed to expanding our capabilities and our toolkit in support of our mission. We invest across diverse asset classes, financial structures, and industries, including real estate, digital infrastructure, healthcare, renewable energy, and technology—with the aim of creating value and powering innovation. We pride ourselves on our extensive network of mutually beneficial partnerships, and we use our substantial influence, capital, and energy to drive towards a better future. #LMI #LI-LMI
The Position
Liberty Mutual Investments Technology (LMI Technology) is seeking a Senior Director, Head of Investment Engineering, reporting to the Chief Technology Officer. This senior leader will be responsible for engineering strategy, software delivery, data and AI enablement, and talent development across the Investments Technology organization.
Working closely with investment professionals, technology leaders, and strategic partners, this executive will shape the future of engineering within Liberty Mutual Investments, ensuring technology capabilities support a complex global investment portfolio spanning public and private markets.
The ideal candidate combines deep engineering leadership experience with strong investment management domain knowledge and a demonstrated ability to build high-performing teams, drive modernization, and operate effectively within a highly regulated environment.
Responsibilities
Technology Strategy & Delivery
- Define and execute engineering strategy aligned Liberty Mutual’s strategic technology priorities and ins service of LMI’s objectives.
- Lead delivery of technology solutions supporting investment management, trading, operations, risk management, and data capabilities.
- Establish engineering standards and practices that promote quality, scalability, resiliency, and operational excellence.
- Advance technology efforts through cloud technologies, platform engineering, automation, and AI-enabled software development.
Engineering Leadership
- Build, lead, and develop an engineering organization through a team of senior leaders, fostering a culture of accountability, technical excellence, innovation, and continuous learning.
- Lead organizational strategy, talent development, succession planning, delivery excellence, and high-performance engineering culture.
- Partner with business and technology leaders to identify opportunities where technology can drive business value and competitive advantage.
- Guide strategic technology decisions, including build-versus-buy evaluations and key vendor partnerships.
- Monitor industry and technology trends to inform future investment and engineering priorities.
Governance & Operational Excellence
- Ensure engineering practices align with regulatory, cybersecurity, operational risk, and audit requirements
- Promote disciplined execution while balancing innovation, speed, and risk management.
- Drive reliability, resiliency, and operational excellence across critical investment platforms.
Qualifications
- Significant experience leading software and data engineering organizations within enterprise environments, experience with AWS and Snowflake preferred.
- Proven track record building and developing high-performing engineering teams and leadership organizations.
- Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, cloud technologies (AWS), platform architecture, and AI-enabled development.
- Experience working with a mix of vendor applications and custom builds and experience with Blackrock Aladdin, E-Front, and/or Simcorp Dimension.
- Deep knowledge of investment workflows, asset classes, portfolio management, trading, research, and investment operations.
- Experience supporting multiple asset classes, with strong preference for candidates who bring expertise in fixed income, private markets, alternatives, private credit, or private equity.
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate and implement enterprise technology platforms and strategic vendor solutions.
- Strong executive presence with the ability to influence senior business and technology leaders.
- Experience operating within highly regulated environments that require strong governance and controls.
- Demonstrated success managing multi-million dollar technology budgets and delivering ROI.
- Experience building and leading high-performing, geographically distributed, and diverse teams.
- Demonstrates strong AI literacy and uses AI-enabled tools to enhance speed, accuracy, and insight generation while maintaining sound judgment and compliance with governance standards.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
About Us
Pay Philosophy: The typical starting salary range for this role is determined by a number of factors including skills, experience, education, certifications and location. The full salary range for this role reflects the competitive labor market value for all employees in these positions across the national market and provides an opportunity to progress as employees grow and develop within the role. Some roles at Liberty Mutual have a corresponding compensation plan which may include commission and/or bonus earnings at rates that vary based on multiple factors set forth in the compensation plan for the role.
At Liberty Mutual, our goal is to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, supported, and can thrive. We build an environment that welcomes a wide range of perspectives and experiences, with inclusion embedded in every aspect of our culture and reflected in everyday interactions. This comes to life through comprehensive benefits, workplace flexibility, professional development opportunities, and a host of opportunities provided through our Employee Resource Groups. Each employee plays a role in creating our inclusive culture, which supports every individual to do their best work. Together, we cultivate a community where everyone can make a meaningful impact for our business, our customers, and the communities we serve.
We value your hard work, integrity and commitment to make things better, and we put people first by offering you benefits that support your life and well-being. To learn more about our benefit offerings please visit: https://www.libertymutualgroup.com/about-lm/careers/benefits
Liberty Mutual is an equal opportunity employer. We will not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, disability, veteran's status, pregnancy, genetic information or on any basis prohibited by federal, state or local law.
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