Senior Director, Engineering Group Leader

BNY Mellon • New York, NY

8d • $136,500 - $270,000

About The Position

BNY is seeking a Senior Director, Engineering Group Leader to lead its Structured Finance Engineering organization. The role defines and executes technology strategy for Structured Finance, Structured Debt, Deal Administration, Trustee Services, and related Corporate Trust platforms. The leader modernizes critical platforms, builds engineering excellence, leads global teams, and partners with business, product, operations, risk, clients, and enterprise architecture stakeholders to deliver scalable, resilient solutions.

The position oversees multiple global teams across application development, platform engineering, quality engineering, and production support. It is responsible for strategic roadmaps and transformation, delivery of complex programs, engineering practices and metrics, risk and regulatory controls, budgets and resources, vendor relationships, and workforce planning. The position is located in New York.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 15+ years of software engineering and technology leadership experience in complex enterprise environments.
• 8+ years leading large engineering organizations and managing managers.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale technology transformation initiatives and modernization programs.
• Experience leading globally distributed engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, cloud-native architectures, DevSecOps, CI/CD, observability, and platform engineering.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and align business and technology stakeholders.
• Strong financial management, organizational leadership, and strategic planning experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Structured Finance, Structured Debt, Corporate Trust, Capital Markets, Fixed Income, Asset Servicing, or related financial services domains.
• Understanding of deal administration, trustee services, syndicated loans, structured products, securitization, or debt markets.
• Experience implementing AI-enabled engineering practices and intelligent automation solutions.
• Experience modernizing legacy platforms and migrating complex financial systems to cloud-based architectures.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a multi-year technology roadmap for Structured Finance products, servicing platforms, and client-facing capabilities.
• Lead modernization initiatives involving cloud adoption, API enablement, event-driven architecture, data platforms, AI-enabled workflows, and engineering automation.
• Set technology investment priorities aligned with business growth, operational efficiency, and client outcomes; partner with enterprise architecture on scalable, resilient, maintainable solutions.
• Lead global engineering teams responsible for application development, platform engineering, quality engineering, and production support.
• Build a high-performance engineering culture emphasizing accountability, innovation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
• Develop engineering talent through mentoring, coaching, succession planning, and leadership development; foster use of AI and intelligent tools in engineering.
• Partner with Product, Operations, Corporate Trust leadership, business stakeholders, clients, and internal stakeholders to translate priorities into engineering roadmaps and identify innovation opportunities.
• Align technology investment with business outcomes while balancing feature delivery, modernization, risk reduction, and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee complex strategic programs to support predictable execution, quality outcomes, and business commitments.
• Establish engineering metrics, dashboards, and governance processes; drive Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and SRE practices.
• Improve engineering performance using DORA metrics, operational KPIs, and delivery health indicators.
• Ensure platforms meet enterprise security standards, operational risk requirements, audit expectations, and regulatory obligations.
• Lead risk identification, remediation planning, resiliency testing, incident management, and engineering and technology operations controls.
• Manage multi-million-dollar budgets, resource planning, vendor relationships, and investment prioritization.
• Develop workforce strategies and lead recruitment and retention while building diverse, inclusive, high-performing teams.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits and wellbeing programs.
• Flexible global resources and tools.
• Generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time.
• Potential eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive award.
• 401(k) plan, subject to plan terms and eligibility.
• Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans for eligible employees and dependents.
• Other paid time off benefits, including vacation and sick time, dependent on the position offered.

What This Job Offers

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