Senior Director, Technology FinOps

BNY Mellon • Pittsburgh, PA

4d • Onsite

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. Join us and be part of
something extraordinary.

The Senior Director of FinOps will build and lead BNY’s Technology FinOps
capability to drive financial accountability and maximize ROI across the
technology estate. Operating in a dual-report structure to the Engineering Hub
Lead and the CFO, Engineering, this role spans strategy, execution, and
influence—standing up the operating model, recruiting and leading a team, and
embedding cost-conscious decision-making across a complex, multi-cloud,
multi-vendor environment. The initial scope on cloud and AI cost management,
extends into data platform economics, and will expand over time to include
software usage-based contracts. The Director will own the full FinOps
lifecycle—visibility, allocation, optimization, and governance—across all
domains in scope This role is located in New York City

Requirements

• 10+ years in technology finance, cloud engineering, infrastructure operations, or related discipline; at least 3 years leading a FinOps or technology cost management function.
• Proven track record of building a FinOps capability from early maturity to a steady-state operating model in a large enterprise.
• Strong understanding of cloud pricing models, commitment instruments, and consumption-based billing across major providers; experience designing cost allocation models, tagging taxonomies, and chargeback/showback frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority across engineering, finance, procurement, and executive stakeholders; excellent analytical, communication, and executive presentation skills; experience in financial services or a similarly regulated industry; preferred experience with AI or data platform cost governance and unit economics.

Responsibilities

• Strategy and Operating Model: Define and execute the enterprise FinOps strategy aligned with engineering, finance, and business objectives; stand up and operate a hub-and-spoke model with centralized standards and decentralized execution across domain teams.
• Financial Management: Partner with Finance to establish cost taxonomy, allocation rules, and metadata standards to enable showback, chargeback, forecasting, and auditability; enable Finance to deliver transparent cost allocation by business unit, product, application, environment, and owner.
• Cost Optimization: Manage commitment-based spend and optimize coverage versus utilization across providers; lead optimization initiatives such as rightsizing, idle resource cleanup, quota tuning, and license reclamation; own budget guardrails, variance reporting, anomaly detection, and remediation workflows; build forecasting models and track unit economics tied to measurable business outcomes.
• Data and Automation: Partner with the Engineering analytics lead to normalize the spend data model across provider feeds leveraging the FOCUS billing data standard; oversee the cost data pipeline from ingestion through reporting and self-service analytics for Finance and Engineering; partner with Engineering Analytics to deliver enterprise dashboards and enable automated alerting, recommendations, and remediation workflows; ensure data quality, lineage, and auditability across all FinOps data assets.
• Governance, Risk and Compliance: Establish governance cadences including weekly operational reviews, monthly forecast/budget reviews, and quarterly contract/architecture reviews; partner with procurement and legal on contract renewals, vendor rationalization, and commercial optimization.

Benefits

• BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy.
• We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey.
• Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees