Director, Group Delivery Group Lead

BNY Mellon • New York, NY

1d • $130,000 - $225,000

About The Position

The Director, Group Delivery Group Lead is an experienced delivery professional who orchestrates end-to-end delivery across a portfolio of complex products and services. The role provides strategic direction, governance, and oversight of multi-platform roadmaps, delivery plans, and execution, ensuring outcomes are delivered on time, within scope, within budget, and aligned with business objectives. The position partners closely with product, engineering, operations, and control functions to build 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. It fosters an inclusive culture of continuous improvement, empowers teams to challenge constructively and innovate, and maintains 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 within data, technology, or transformation-focused organizations.
• Deep understanding of modern delivery practices, such as 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 experience 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.
• 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.
• Certifications or experience in agile or product delivery frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end planning and execution of complex, multi-platform delivery initiatives by defining integrated delivery strategies, milestones, governance structures, and success metrics aligned with business priorities and BNY’s strategic pillars.
• Drive cross-functional coordination across product, engineering, operations, and control partners by establishing clear roles, responsibilities, and communication routines that promote collaboration, transparency, and adherence to BNY’s Principles.
• Oversee delivery risk, issue, and dependency management across the group using risk and control frameworks; identify obstacles and implement mitigation and contingency plans to support stable, resilient, and compliant platforms.
• Optimize delivery practices, processes, and tooling across the Delivery group by assessing performance, introducing best practices such as agile, DevOps, and scaled delivery models, and promoting data-driven decision-making.
• Provide group-level delivery thought leadership and subject matter expertise, advising senior stakeholders on prioritization, tradeoffs, and investment decisions, and 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, sharing best practices, and strengthening risk and control discipline.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Wellbeing programs.
• Flexible global resources and tools.
• Paid leaves, including paid volunteer time.
• Potential eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive award.
• Eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan.
• Eligible employees may participate in company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans.
• Eligible employees may receive paid time off benefits, such as vacation and sick time.

What This Job Offers

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