Director, Architecture Lead

BNY Mellon•Pittsburgh, PA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Platform Level Architect – Global Payments & Trade to join our Global Payments & Trade team. This role is located in Pittsburg. In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways: Define, maintain, and communicate the 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 platform initiatives, transformation programs, and critical design decisions. Establish and govern architecture guardrails across application, integration, data, infrastructure, security, and operational domains. Partner with engineering teams to ensure solution designs are scalable, resilient, reusable, practical, and aligned with delivery objectives. Drive technology simplification and standardization through common patterns, shared capabilities, and reduction of platform duplication. Identify and address legacy constraints, technical debt, architectural risks, and modernization opportunities. Ensure platform solutions meet expectations for availability, performance, scalability, security, observability, recoverability, and supportability. Lead architecture governance activities, including architecture reviews, design approvals, architectural decision records, and exception management. Collaborate with product, engineering, operations, risk, control, and business stakeholders to balance innovation, resilience, speed to market, and risk management. Guide the adoption of data-driven solutions and AI/ML-enabled capabilities where appropriate to improve platform efficiency, intelligence, automation, and decision support. Mentor solution architects, senior engineers, and technical leads to strengthen architecture capabilities and engineering excellence throughout the organization. Apply deep Payments and Treasury Services domain knowledge to support critical transaction flows, liquidity and cash management capabilities, operational controls, client servicing, and regulatory requirements. Ensure architecture decisions support high-volume transaction processing, straight-through processing, operational resilience, and service reliability.

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 roles within large-scale, complex enterprise environments.
Demonstrated success designing and governing distributed systems and enterprise platforms supporting mission-critical and transaction-intensive workloads.
Strong experience across multiple architecture domains including applications, APIs, integration, data, cloud infrastructure, security, and operational platforms.
Strong understanding of Payments and Treasury Services technology ecosystems, including payment processing architectures, cash management services, transaction workflows, reconciliation, auditability, and operational controls.
Experience supporting large-scale modernization, platform transformation, cloud adoption, and legacy rationalization initiatives.
Expertise with modern architecture and engineering practices including microservices, 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 strategies, operational resilience, disaster recovery, observability, logging, tracing, and production support considerations.
Strong knowledge of security-by-design principles, including authentication, authorization, encryption, secure integration, and risk management.
Experience assessing and integrating AI/ML capabilities within enterprise platforms, including machine learning lifecycle concepts, responsible AI principles, 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.

Responsibilities

Define, maintain, and communicate the 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 platform initiatives, transformation programs, and critical design decisions.
Establish and govern architecture guardrails across application, integration, data, infrastructure, security, and operational domains.
Partner with engineering teams to ensure solution designs are scalable, resilient, reusable, practical, and aligned with delivery objectives.
Drive technology simplification and standardization through common patterns, shared capabilities, and reduction of platform duplication.
Identify and address legacy constraints, technical debt, architectural risks, and modernization opportunities.
Ensure platform solutions meet expectations for availability, performance, scalability, security, observability, recoverability, and supportability.
Lead architecture governance activities, including architecture reviews, design approvals, architectural decision records, and exception management.
Collaborate with product, engineering, operations, risk, control, and business stakeholders to balance innovation, resilience, speed to market, and risk management.
Guide the adoption of data-driven solutions and AI/ML-enabled capabilities where appropriate to improve platform efficiency, intelligence, automation, and decision support.
Mentor solution architects, senior engineers, and technical leads to strengthen architecture capabilities and engineering excellence throughout the organization.
Apply deep Payments and Treasury Services domain knowledge to support critical transaction flows, liquidity and cash management capabilities, operational controls, client servicing, and regulatory requirements.
Ensure architecture decisions support high-volume transaction processing, straight-through processing, operational resilience, and service reliability.