Director, Architecture Lead
BNY Mellon5 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.