Senior Vice President, Cloud Platform Engineering – Cloud Nerve Center
About The Position
BNY is seeking a Senior Vice President to lead the Wealth Services Platform Cloud Nerve Center. This leader will establish the production environment, engineering patterns, and operational capabilities needed to migrate WSP applications to the cloud securely, efficiently, and at scale, with accountability across security, resiliency, connectivity, modernization, automation, and FinOps. The role will deliver cloud-first standards, reusable blueprints, and repeatable migration patterns while aligning application engineering, architecture, cyber, infrastructure, SRE, risk, finance, and external partners around secure, resilient, and cost-efficient outcomes. The role is located in Jersey City, NJ or New York City, NY.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or equivalent professional experience.
- Extensive leadership experience in cloud, platform, infrastructure, SRE, or production engineering within a regulated enterprise.
- Deep expertise in a major public cloud platform, cloud networking, identity, security, containers, infrastructure as code, observability, and automation.
- Strong knowledge of multi-region resiliency, active-active architecture, disaster recovery, cloud edge technologies, private connectivity, and traffic management.
- Demonstrated experience with managed identity, zero-trust controls, FinOps, large-scale migrations, and complex production change.
- Executive communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to translate technical decisions into business, client, and risk outcomes.
Nice To Haves
- Cloud transformation experience in financial services or another highly regulated environment.
- Experience with Akamai or comparable edge-security platforms, data center exits, hybrid-cloud modernization, and private connectivity.
- Relevant cloud, security, Kubernetes, architecture, SRE, or FinOps certifications.
- Experience leading senior engineers, vendors, budgets, and multi-year platform roadmaps.
Responsibilities
- Own the Cloud Nerve Center roadmap and translate modernization priorities into measurable engineering outcomes.
- Lead traffic management, web application protection, private connectivity, managed identity, and zero-trust controls for WSP cloud applications.
- Establish multi-region, active-active, recovery, observability, capacity, and incident-readiness standards for critical services.
- Deliver reusable landing zones, infrastructure-as-code modules, migration playbooks, and operational-readiness standards that accelerate data center exits.
- Improve cost transparency and savings through autoscaling, rightsizing, allocation, forecasting, and cloud-efficiency standards.
- Ensure cloud capabilities meet BNY cybersecurity, regulatory, audit, data-protection, and operational-control requirements.
- Align senior stakeholders, mentor technical leaders, and foster accountability, automation, reuse, and continuous improvement.
Benefits
- Highly competitive compensation
- Benefits and wellbeing programs
- Access to flexible global resources and tools
- Generous paid leaves
- Paid volunteer time
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Basic life insurance
- 401(k) plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
