Senior Vice President, Group Delivery Group Lead

BNY Mellon • Pittsburgh, PA

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About The Position

The Senior Vice President, Group Delivery Lead joins the Foundational Frameworks Platform team in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This role leads end-to-end delivery across multiple agile engineering teams, translating platform strategy and product roadmaps into coordinated execution plans for predictable delivery of enterprise platform capabilities. The position partners across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Quality Engineering, and other disciplines to coordinate planning, dependencies, risks, releases, and delivery governance.

The role provides technical delivery leadership across initiatives involving distributed systems, platform services, APIs, cloud-native technologies, and engineering architecture. It establishes delivery transparency through metrics, flow analytics, and executive reporting, and drives improvements in predictability, backlog health, quality, and outcomes. The Group Delivery Lead also develops Scrum Leads, advances disciplined agile practices and the Platform Operating Model, champions responsible use of AI-enabled delivery practices and automation, and communicates delivery health, risks, options, and recommendations to stakeholders.

Requirements

• 8–12 years of experience leading delivery of large-scale technology initiatives in Agile environments, including coordination across multiple engineering teams and stakeholders.
• Technical fluency with cloud technologies, APIs, distributed systems, DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, the software delivery lifecycle, and enterprise architecture concepts.
• Ability to engage credibly with engineering teams and technical leaders; hands-on software development is not expected.
• Proven experience managing cross-team dependencies, release planning, delivery governance, risk management, and executive stakeholder communications in complex enterprise technology organizations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including experience using delivery metrics, flow measures, forecasting, and data-driven decision-making to improve delivery performance.
• Excellent executive communication, facilitation, and influencing skills, with the ability to build alignment across Product, Engineering, Architecture, and senior business stakeholders.
• Experience with scaled Agile frameworks and leading PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt, and continuous improvement activities.
• Experience leading and developing Scrum Leads or other delivery professionals through coaching, mentoring, performance management, and/or organizational leadership.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery across multiple agile engineering teams, translating platform strategy and product roadmaps into coordinated execution plans.
• Drive PI Planning readiness, cross-team planning, dependency management, risk mitigation, release coordination, and delivery governance.
• Use technical fluency to identify delivery risks, facilitate technical decision-making, and enable execution across complex initiatives.
• Establish delivery transparency using data-driven metrics, flow analytics, and executive reporting.
• Continuously improve predictability, backlog health, quality, and delivery outcomes across the Group.
• Build cross-group partnerships to identify and resolve dependencies, integration challenges, and impediments affecting strategic initiatives.
• Coach and develop Scrum Leads and foster disciplined agile delivery, continuous improvement, operational excellence, and adoption of the Platform Operating Model.
• Champion responsible adoption of AI-enabled delivery practices and automation to improve planning, forecasting, delivery insights, and operational efficiency.
• Communicate delivery health, risks, options, and recommendations through clear, concise, data-driven storytelling to stakeholders at multiple organizational levels.

What This Job Offers

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