Senior Director, Fellow, Enterprise Architect

2 months ago

Base Salary

$137k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

Define and maintain reusable, executable architecture patterns, including reference implementations, IaC modules, code scaffolds, policy-as-code, and CI/CD templates.
Modernize architecture governance through lightweight guardrails, controls, decision workflows, and automated compliance mechanisms.
Integrate architecture practices into epics, code reviews, pipelines, automated gates, and other software development lifecycle workflows.
Author and maintain technology standards, reference architectures, and decision frameworks.
Evaluate and pilot AI-assisted tools for pattern recommendation, design validation, risk identification, and documentation generation.
Create safe and compliant AI-assisted architecture usage patterns and measure their benefits.
Deliver playbooks, workshops, and enablement materials to scale adoption across teams.
Define and track KPIs covering cycle time, defect prevention, policy adherence, pattern reuse, cloud/resource cost efficiency, and security posture.
Establish architecture decision records, rationales, and lineage connecting business outcomes, technical choices, controls, and implementation artifacts.
Advise platform and product strategies to align architecture with business priorities, operational resilience, and cost optimization.
Partner with platform leads, product owners, engineers, and risk/compliance teams to drive adoption and continuous improvement.

15-plus years of experience in enterprise, solution, or platform architecture roles.
Demonstrated impact delivering large-scale distributed systems in regulated environments.
Expertise in cloud-native architecture across AWS, Azure, or GCP; microservices; APIs; event-driven designs; data platforms; security architecture; and reliability engineering/SRE.
Experience making architecture executable through infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, CI/CD, automated quality and security gates, and reference implementations.
Strong fluency across the SDLC and agile delivery, including product thinking, backlog grooming, sprint ceremonies, and hands-on partnership with engineering teams.
Practical experience designing risk-aware, lightweight governance processes and implementing controls through automation.
Exposure to AI/ML in engineering workflows, including GenAI-assisted design, coding assistants, architectural validation, model risk, data protection, and auditability.
Excellent communication and influencing skills, including the ability to explain complex concepts, build consensus, and drive adoption across platforms and practices.

The position is located in New York City.
BNY offers competitive compensation, benefits, wellbeing programs, flexible global resources, and tools supporting employees’ health, resilience, and financial goals.
Benefits include generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, and company-sponsored benefit programs.

10,000+ employees