Director, Group Delivery Group Lead

BNY Mellon • New York, NY

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Director, Group Delivery Group Lead is an experienced delivery professional on the Data Solutions Services team, located in New York City. The role orchestrates end-to-end delivery across a portfolio of complex products and services, providing strategic direction, governance and oversight of multi-platform roadmaps, delivery plans and execution. It ensures outcomes are delivered on time, within scope and budget, and aligned with business objectives.

The position partners with product, engineering, operations and control functions to drive resilient, scalable and client-centric platforms and services that support BNY’s strategic pillars, including growth, operational excellence, effective risk management and differentiated client experiences. The role models and promotes BNY’s Principles through accountability, collaboration and integrity, while fostering an inclusive culture of continuous improvement, constructive challenge and responsible innovation with a strong risk and control mindset.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in a related discipline, such as Engineering, Business or Information Systems.
• Typically 12–15 years of experience.
• Advanced group-level platform and program delivery skills, including strategy development, portfolio planning, governance, and risk and dependency management across complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives.
• Strong planning, execution and portfolio management capabilities, ideally in data-, technology- or transformation-focused organizations.
• Deep understanding of modern delivery practices, including agile, DevOps, iterative and scaled delivery, and the ability to apply them pragmatically to improve platform performance, resilience, control effectiveness and client outcomes.
• Experience driving end-to-end delivery across cross-functional teams, with practical knowledge of agile delivery methods, backlog and dependency management, milestone tracking and delivery metrics.
• Ability to bring structure to ambiguity, manage competing priorities and support disciplined follow-through across complex initiatives.
• Strong data literacy, including defining KPIs and OKRs, building executive-level reporting, and using analytics and visualization to inform decisions and improve outcomes.
• Ability to influence a matrixed organization and build credibility with senior stakeholders through clear communication, sound judgment and disciplined execution.
• Excellent communication, analytical and executive presentation skills, including the ability to synthesize complex information into clear action plans and practical recommendations.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing high-performing teams, with a focus on coaching, accountability, engagement and talent development.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree.
• Relevant professional certifications in project or program management, such as SAFe, Agile/Scrum or PMP.
• Experience in data-, technology- or transformation-focused organizations.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end planning and execution of complex, multi-platform delivery initiatives, defining integrated delivery strategies, milestones, governance structures and success metrics aligned with business priorities and BNY’s strategic pillars.
• Drive cross-functional coordination among product, engineering, operations and control partners by establishing clear roles, responsibilities and communication routines.
• Oversee delivery risks, issues and dependencies across the group, applying risk and control frameworks and implementing mitigation and contingency plans.
• Optimize delivery practices, processes and tooling by assessing performance, introducing best practices such as agile, DevOps and scaled delivery models, and promoting data-driven decision-making.
• Advise senior stakeholders on prioritization, tradeoffs and investment decisions, linking delivery outcomes to client value, commercial impact and strategic objectives.
• Foster accountability, learning and continuous improvement across the Delivery job family through structured feedback, recognition, responsible experimentation, knowledge sharing and stronger risk and control discipline.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director