Director, Group Delivery Lead Manager
About The Position
BNY is seeking a Loans Enablement Platform Delivery Lead to drive execution across a complex portfolio of initiatives. This hybrid Release Train Engineer / Program Manager-type role translates strategic priorities into coordinated delivery plans, aligns cross-functional teams, and helps improve predictability, transparency, and speed. The Delivery Lead partners with product, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to manage dependencies, remove blockers, support planning and release readiness, and ensure delivery aligns with business priorities, controls, and platform outcomes. The position is located in New York City. The role requires strong delivery discipline, structured problem solving, sound judgment, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, matrixed environment. It leads end-to-end delivery across the Loans Enablement Platform, supports planning and execution, maintains reporting and governance, and promotes continuous improvement across teams. BNY describes itself as a global financial services company and highlights a culture focused on employee growth, innovation, and technology. It offers competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs, along with paid leaves that include paid volunteer time. Eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan and participate in company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans. Other benefits, including paid time off, may depend on the position offered. The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award, subject to applicable plan terms.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in program management, delivery leadership, release train engineering, project management, business transformation, or product operations.
- Demonstrated success leading complex cross-functional initiatives across business and technology teams.
- Strong experience coordinating delivery in agile environments, including planning, dependency management, execution tracking, and risk management.
- Experience driving initiatives across multiple stakeholders in a matrixed organization.
- Strong program and project management skills, including the ability to bring structure to ambiguity and drive execution forward.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to deliver clear updates and influence a wide range of stakeholders.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and prioritization skills.
- Proven ability to identify risks, remove blockers, and drive accountability for results.
- Experience using delivery tools such as JIRA and producing delivery reporting and status materials.
- Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and bias for action.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree, PMP, Scrum, SAFe, or similar certification.
- Experience working in a Release Train Engineer, Delivery Lead, or hybrid PM/RTE capacity.
- Experience with PI Planning, cross-team synchronization, release coordination, and dependency management.
- Experience supporting complex delivery with outcome-focused execution.
- Loans or broader financial services experience.
- Experience supporting platform modernization, transformation, or large-scale operating model change.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of key initiatives across the Loans Enablement Platform.
- Translate strategic priorities and roadmaps into executable delivery plans with milestones, risks, dependencies, and decision points.
- Drive PI readiness, planning, execution tracking, and cross-team synchronization to support predictable delivery.
- Coordinate product, engineering, operations, and business teams to manage interdependencies and maintain alignment on priorities and outcomes.
- Identify, escalate, and help resolve delivery risks, impediments, and sequencing conflicts.
- Support release readiness and integrated execution, aligning teams on scope, timing, dependencies, and production preparedness.
- Partner with stakeholders to align demand to capacity and support disciplined prioritization and sequencing of work.
- Establish and maintain delivery reporting, dashboards, and metrics that provide transparency into progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes.
- Promote strong JIRA hygiene, delivery governance, and audit-ready evidence in line with enterprise standards and controls.
- Improve delivery ways of working by reducing friction, strengthening execution discipline, and driving continuous improvement across teams.
- Prepare clear, concise updates and executive-level communications for senior stakeholders.
- Foster accountability, collaboration, and momentum across a broad cross-functional delivery community.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits and wellbeing programs.
- 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.
- Paid leaves, including paid volunteer time; other paid time off benefits may depend on the position offered.
- Flexible global resources and tools for employees’ life journeys.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
