Vice President, Solution Architect II
BNY Mellonalmost 2 years ago
Responsibilities
- Lead the definition and high-level design of architectural solutions for a specific platform.
- Develop proof-of-concepts, evaluate alternatives, and guide technology teams in architecture decisions.
- Coordinate architectural solutions and dependencies across pods and platform groups.
- Define and promote reusable architecture designs, methodologies, standards, and patterns.
- Ensure solutions comply with bank policies, technology-domain architecture, regulatory requirements, and industry standards.
- Monitor project and application status, analyze architecture KPIs and KRIs, and maintain alignment with strategic direction.
- Provide architecture consulting and guidance on technology choices, cost, risk, delivery timelines, and enterprise assets.
- Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, architecture, product, and business stakeholders across platforms.
- Identify architectural gaps and emerging industry trends while supporting change-management and design-review processes.
- May recruit, direct, motivate, and develop staff in addition to individual-contributor responsibilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
- At least 12 years of experience in technology and architecture roles involving distributed systems; the posting also describes a minimally expected 15+ years of industry experience for the role’s level of influence.
- Significant financial-services experience within banking, preferably across securities, asset servicing, custody, trading, clearance, treasury, credit, or related domains.
- Seasoned developer or technical lead with expert knowledge of architecture frameworks, technologies, tools, processes, and procedures.
- Experience with multiple data platforms, distributed systems, on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-based environments.
- Experience designing solutions spanning multiple business units or products and handling complex integrations across applications and data types.
- Knowledge of BNY applications, bank standards, infrastructure, and architectural design solutions is preferred.
- Strong communication, stakeholder coordination, problem-solving, and technical decision-alignment skills.
- Experience in securities or financial-services industries and agile development is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs.
- Flexible global resources and tools supporting health, resilience, and financial goals.
- Generous paid leave, including paid volunteer time.
- Hybrid work arrangement in Lake Mary, Florida, or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About BNY Mellon
BNY Mellon is a public, New York–based global financial services company providing investment and wealth management, asset servicing, clearance, collateral, and treasury services to institutions, banks, governments, and individuals. It also offers data and investment operations software, including the Eagle platform, delivered as cloud and managed services. Founded in 1784, it is one of the world’s largest custodian banks and asset servicers.