Director, Architecture Lead
BNY Mellon7 months ago
Responsibilities
- Define end-to-end target and transitional architectures for payments and compliance platforms integrating SWIFT, ACH, RTP, and related payment rails.
- Establish reference architectures, design patterns, guardrails, and technical controls supporting performance, resiliency, security, privacy, auditability, and compliance.
- Lead architecture reviews, threat modeling, resiliency assessments, governance forums, and technical decision-making.
- Produce clear architecture designs, diagrams, sequence models, data-flow models, and actionable documentation for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Translate AML/KYC, data-retention, transaction-monitoring, and other regulatory requirements into technical designs and control guidance.
- Architect transaction-monitoring, surveillance, detection, investigation, and reporting capabilities for financial-crime programs.
- Define critical data elements, data models, lineage, mappings, data-quality rules, metadata strategies, master/reference data, and data controls.
- Collaborate with data engineering on scalable streaming and batch pipelines and ensure data reliability, timeliness, and completeness.
- Mentor architects and engineers, facilitate cross-functional trade-offs, contribute to roadmaps and cost optimization, and promote operational excellence.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software, solution, data, or enterprise architecture, including prior hands-on engineering experience in application development, integration, or data engineering.
- Proven delivery of large-scale, mission-critical payment systems and/or financial-crime platforms in regulated financial-services environments.
- Deep understanding of SWIFT, ISO 20022, NACHA/ACH, RTP, messaging, clearing and settlement flows, and exception handling.
- Strong data-architecture expertise covering relational and distributed databases, schema design, critical data elements, data quality, lineage, mapping, and governance.
- Experience with APIs, event streaming, messaging, microservices, distributed systems, performance, and resiliency engineering.
- Knowledge of encryption, key management, identity and authorization, logging and monitoring, auditability, and regulatory reporting controls.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to business stakeholders and regulators.
- Ability to lead design forums, resolve technical conflicts, influence stakeholders, and drive consensus across teams.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.
- Relevant Azure or AWS, data-management or governance, security such as CISSP, and AML or financial-crime certifications such as CAMS are preferred.
- Experience with UML, BPMN, data-modeling tools, documentation frameworks, CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code is beneficial.
- Familiarity with ISO 20022, NACHA rules, SWIFT CSP, NIST and industry security standards, and operational risk and resiliency frameworks is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, benefits, wellbeing programs, flexible global resources, generous paid leaves, and paid volunteer time.
- Programs and resources support employee health, personal resilience, financial goals, and family needs.
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.