Platform Architect _pipeline
BNY Mellon7 months ago
Base Salary
$137k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve platform architecture strategy, technical governance, blueprints, modernization strategies, and roadmaps for Custody, Wealth, and Asset Management platforms.
- Translate business priorities and regulatory requirements into scalable, secure, resilient, high-performing architectures.
- Partner with business, product, engineering, operations, data, and other stakeholders to improve platform design, data flow, interoperability, and operational efficiency.
- Guide hands-on delivery through prototyping, design validation, code reviews, technical troubleshooting, and implementation decisions.
- Architect cloud-native applications, containerized platforms, infrastructure automation, distributed systems, API-first integrations, event-driven architectures, and scalable batch and real-time processing.
- Design data models, integration and transformation pipelines, metadata and lineage strategies, data quality and governance capabilities, and analytics-ready platforms.
- Identify and shape governed AI and GenAI use cases such as knowledge retrieval, intelligent workflows, summarization, classification, and productivity improvements.
- Mentor engineers and junior architects and communicate architecture decisions to technical and non-technical audiences.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline is required; an advanced degree is preferred but not required.
- Significant experience in platform and solution architecture, distributed systems design, and engineering within financial services or similarly complex regulated industries.
- Demonstrated delivery experience in Custody, Wealth, and/or Asset Management and a track record leading architecture for complex enterprise platforms and transformation initiatives.
- Hands-on expertise with Azure and/or AWS, including compute, storage, networking, managed services, cloud-native application design, Kubernetes or container platforms, infrastructure as code, deployment automation, and security or identity integration.
- Experience designing and delivering microservices, event-driven systems, API-first platforms, highly available and resilient architectures, scalable batch and real-time processing solutions, and integration or modernization approaches.
- Strong data architecture and engineering background covering data modeling, integration and transformation pipelines, metadata and lineage, data quality, and governance.
- Practical exposure to AI and GenAI, including enterprise workflow integration, retrieval-augmented generation, LLM-enabled search, summarization, classification, responsible AI, and model governance across structured and unstructured data.
- Ability to mentor engineers and junior architects, communicate architecture decisions clearly, and influence strategic technology decisions through technical expertise and delivery focus.
Benefits
- Competitive base compensation and performance-based compensation programs, along with company-sponsored benefits.
- Generous paid leave programs, including paid volunteer time.
- Flexible global resources and tools supporting health, personal resilience, financial goals, and family needs.
- The position is located in New York City.
Tech Stack
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.