Director, Architecture Lead
BNY Mellon21 days ago
Responsibilities
- Define, maintain, and communicate target-state architecture for the Global Payments & Trade platform.
- Translate business strategy and platform priorities into architecture roadmaps, standards, reference architectures, and implementation patterns.
- Provide strategic and hands-on architectural leadership across major initiatives, transformation programs, and critical design decisions.
- Establish architecture guardrails across application, integration, data, infrastructure, security, and operational domains.
- Partner with engineering teams to ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, reusable, practical, and aligned with delivery objectives.
- Drive technology simplification, standardization, shared capabilities, and reduction of platform duplication.
- Identify and address legacy constraints, technical debt, architectural risks, and modernization opportunities.
- Lead architecture reviews, design approvals, architectural decision records, exception management, and other governance activities.
- Ensure platform solutions support availability, performance, scalability, security, observability, recoverability, supportability, and operational resilience.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, operations, risk, control, and business stakeholders to balance innovation, resilience, speed to market, and risk management.
- Guide adoption of data-driven and AI/ML-enabled capabilities where appropriate.
- Mentor solution architects, senior engineers, and technical leads.
- Apply payments and treasury domain knowledge to transaction flows, liquidity and cash management, operational controls, client servicing, and regulatory requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
- Significant experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, platform architecture, or senior engineering leadership within large-scale, complex enterprise environments.
- Demonstrated success designing and governing distributed systems and enterprise platforms supporting mission-critical, transaction-intensive workloads.
- Strong experience across application, API, integration, data, cloud infrastructure, security, and operational architecture domains.
- Strong understanding of Payments and Treasury Services technology ecosystems, including payment processing, cash management, transaction workflows, reconciliation, auditability, and operational controls.
- Experience with large-scale modernization, platform transformation, cloud adoption, and legacy rationalization.
- Expertise in modern architecture and engineering practices, including service-oriented architecture, API-led integration, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous messaging patterns.
- Strong knowledge of database technologies, data modeling, data movement strategies, and integration architectures across relational and non-relational platforms.
- Experience with cloud-native architectures, containerized deployment models, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps practices, and software delivery automation.
- Understanding of performance engineering, scalability, operational resilience, disaster recovery, observability, logging, tracing, and production support.
- Strong knowledge of security-by-design principles, including authentication, authorization, encryption, secure integration, and risk management.
- Experience assessing and integrating AI/ML capabilities, including machine learning lifecycle concepts, responsible AI, governance requirements, and GenAI-enabled architectures.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across product, engineering, operations, control, and business organizations without relying solely on direct authority.
- Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Demonstrated success mentoring and developing technical talent across architecture and engineering communities.
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