Senior Director, Fellow, Solution Architect
BNY Mellon4 months ago
Jersey City, NJ, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$137k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve platform architecture strategy, roadmaps, blueprints, target-state designs, and modernization strategies for Custody, Wealth, and Asset Management platforms.
- Lead architecture reviews and provide technical governance across solution design, delivery, security, resiliency, and platform evolution.
- Partner with business and product stakeholders to improve workflows, platform design, data flow, interoperability, and operational efficiency in regulated financial environments.
- Remain hands-on through prototyping, design validation, code reviews, technical troubleshooting, implementation guidance, and reference implementations.
- Design APIs, system integrations, event-driven architectures, data patterns, cloud deployment models, observability, and resilient distributed systems.
- Design and support cloud-native application deployment on Azure and/or AWS, including containerization and infrastructure automation.
- Architect data platforms, data pipelines, metadata strategies, and analytics-ready systems supporting transactional and analytical workloads.
- Identify and shape governed AI/GenAI use cases such as knowledge retrieval, intelligent workflows, summarization, classification, and operational productivity improvements.
- Drive engineering excellence, legacy modernization, automation, testing, reliability, security-by-design, performance optimization, and operational readiness.
- Collaborate with architects, engineers, platform leads, data teams, security teams, SRE teams, and business leaders while mentoring engineers and junior architects.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline; an advanced degree is preferred but not required.
- 15+ years of experience in architecture and engineering roles within financial services or similarly complex regulated industries.
- Demonstrated experience delivering technology solutions in Custody, Wealth, and/or Asset Management.
- Strong experience in platform architecture, solution architecture, distributed systems, microservices, service-oriented architectures, event-driven systems, API-first platforms, high-availability systems, and scalable batch and real-time processing.
- Strong software engineering background with the ability to participate in hands-on technical work and guide complex implementations.
- Hands-on experience with Azure and/or AWS, cloud-native application design, Kubernetes or container platforms, infrastructure as code, deployment automation, security and identity integration, and cloud operational design.
- Strong understanding of data architecture and engineering patterns, including data modeling, data integration and transformation pipelines, metadata and lineage, data quality, governance, and transactional and analytical workloads.
- Practical exposure to AI/GenAI integration, retrieval-augmented generation, knowledge retrieval, LLM-enabled search, summarization, classification, assistant use cases, responsible AI, model governance, and secure enterprise adoption.
- Track record of leading architecture for complex enterprise platforms and transformation initiatives while balancing strategic design with practical implementation.
- Experience working in Agile or product-centric delivery environments and engaging stakeholders across business, operations, and technology teams.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs.
- Flexible global resources and tools supporting health, personal resilience, and financial goals.
- Generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time.
- Additional compensation may include commission, discretionary bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and company-sponsored benefits.
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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.