Director, Forward Deployed Engineer
BNY Mellon20 hours ago
Manchester, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead a portfolio of forward-deployed engineering engagements across business and platform domains.
- Set priorities, allocate engineering capacity, and scope engagements for measurable delivery within time-boxed windows.
- Serve as the senior technical voice in discovery with executive sponsors and business leaders.
- Translate ambiguous opportunities into feasible, production-ready delivery plans.
- Own and evolve the FDE playbook, including discovery-to-production standards, entry and exit criteria, handoff protocols, and team operating norms.
- Establish reuse-first patterns for when to build, extend, or standardize and convert field learnings into reference architectures and platform contributions.
- Set quality, governance, secure-by-default, observability, testability, and operational-readiness standards across engagements.
- Ensure engagements end with documented ownership, clear handoff, and a capable owning team.
- Represent FDE to architecture, control, security, compliance, and senior technology leadership.
- Shape firm-wide AI and platform strategy and identify capability gaps and platform investment opportunities.
- Build, recruit, develop, and retain a team of senior engineers while setting technical and delivery standards.
- Influence technology implementation and forward-deployed delivery standards across large IT divisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience; an advanced degree is beneficial.
- 14+ years of software development and technical leadership experience with direct accountability for production systems and cross-functional delivery programs.
- Experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus.
- Strong understanding of AI and agentic application patterns, including retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, and agent-based system design.
- Hands-on experience building backend services, APIs, and production systems.
- Experience working across architecture, data, and platform concerns.
- Track record of building or scaling delivery capabilities such as solutions engineering, forward deployment, or platform engineering in a large enterprise or regulated environment.
- Experience delivering AI, data, or workflow-heavy solutions at scale in regulated environments with accountability for production outcomes.
- Strong systems thinking and architecture judgment across services, data, and infrastructure, with the ability to influence technology choices at a divisional level.
- Experience defining and operating delivery standards, playbooks, or center-of-excellence functions.
- Experience balancing speed with governance, security, and operational rigor across a team or portfolio.
- Deep familiarity with reusable platform patterns, internal developer platforms, and productized infrastructure.
- Strong software engineering skills in Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, or Python.
- Experience with APIs, service integration, and secure-by-default engineering practices.
- Familiarity with application frameworks and containerization.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication, strategic and product judgment, matrixed leadership, structured tradeoff thinking, and disciplined follow-through.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
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.