Director, Infrastructure Engineering Manager

BNY Mellon•Pittsburgh, PA

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

At BNY, our culture allows us to run our company better and enables employees’ growth and success. As a leading global financial services company at the heart of the global financial system, we influence nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day, our teams harness cutting-edge AI and breakthrough technologies to collaborate with clients, driving transformative solutions that redefine industries and uplift communities worldwide. Recognized as a top destination for innovators, BNY is where bold ideas meet advanced technology and exceptional talent. Together, we power the future of finance – and this is what #LifeAtBNY is all about. We’re seeking Chief Desktop Architect professional to join our Workplace Technology Desktop Engineering team in New York City or Pittsburgh. The Chief Desktop Architect is the strategic technology leader responsible for defining and executing the long-term vision for BNY’s end-user computing environment. While Desktop Engineering provides day-to-day engineering execution and operational delivery, this role focuses on enterprise architecture, innovation, resiliency, and future-state technology strategy across desktop, laptop, and virtual workplace platforms. This position is critical to safeguarding the organization's operational stability, cyber resilience, regulatory compliance, and service availability. The Chief Desktop Architect provides architectural oversight for platform modernization, vulnerability management, system hardening, lifecycle planning, disaster recovery readiness, and technology risk reduction across a highly interconnected global environment. Through strategic governance and technology direction, the role ensures desktop services remain secure, resilient, recoverable, and aligned with business objectives. A key responsibility of the role is shaping BNY’s future AI endpoint strategy. The Chief Desktop Architect will define and drive the vision for executing AI workloads locally on enterprise laptops and desktops, reducing reliance on cloud-based inferencing and the associated costs, latency, privacy concerns, and token consumption of large language models. This includes leading architectural decisions around next-generation AI-capable devices, edge computing, on-device inferencing, and emerging endpoint technologies that enhance performance while strengthening data protection and operational efficiency. By establishing the strategic roadmap for workplace technology, the Chief Desktop Architect serves as a vital risk-control and innovation function—protecting service continuity, accelerating technology transformation, strengthening organizational resiliency, and reducing the likelihood and impact of infrastructure disruptions across the enterprise. At BNY, our culture speaks for itself, check out the latest BNY news at: BNY Newsroom BNY LinkedIn Here’s a few of our recent awards: America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2025 World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2025 “Most Just Companies”, Just Capital and CNBC, 2025

Requirements

Strategic technology leader
Experience in enterprise architecture, innovation, resiliency, and future-state technology strategy
Expertise in desktop, laptop, and virtual workplace platforms
Knowledge of platform modernization, vulnerability management, system hardening, lifecycle planning, disaster recovery readiness, and technology risk reduction
Understanding of AI endpoint strategy, AI workloads on enterprise laptops and desktops, edge computing, on-device inferencing, and emerging endpoint technologies
Ability to reduce reliance on cloud-based inferencing and associated costs, latency, privacy concerns, and token consumption of large language models.

Responsibilities

Defining and executing the long-term vision for BNY’s end-user computing environment.
Focusing on enterprise architecture, innovation, resiliency, and future-state technology strategy across desktop, laptop, and virtual workplace platforms.
Providing architectural oversight for platform modernization, vulnerability management, system hardening, lifecycle planning, disaster recovery readiness, and technology risk reduction.
Ensuring desktop services remain secure, resilient, recoverable, and aligned with business objectives.
Defining and driving the vision for executing AI workloads locally on enterprise laptops and desktops.
Leading architectural decisions around next-generation AI-capable devices, edge computing, on-device inferencing, and emerging endpoint technologies.
Establishing the strategic roadmap for workplace technology.