Senior Vice President, Mainframe Engineer

BNY Mellon•Pittsburgh, PA

About The Position

The Senior Vice President will join the Mainframe Engineering team in New York, NY. The role provides advanced application software development services and technical support to internal business groups, resolves highly complex problems affecting the corporation’s ability to conduct business, and uses deep technology knowledge to establish and influence broad-based technology strategy for large IT divisions. The position requires direct mainframe experience, strategic thinking, relationship building, and the ability to lead complex projects and programs while communicating effectively with clients, teams, business units, and stakeholders.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
9–11 years of diverse experience in multiple areas of information technology.
Direct mainframe experience.
Experience in diverse mainframe technical environments.
Experience in one or more mainframe infrastructure, hardware, system programming technologies, and/or application development.
Ability to build relationships and demonstrate a strategic mindset to drive the team toward successful outcomes.
Communication skills to lead at the client, team, and business-unit levels.
Experience leading complex projects and programs.
Experience with tooling, utilities, and data transport.
Experience with architecture and design principles.
Ability to navigate complex technical topics and communicate them with clarity, brevity, and impact.

Nice To Haves

Experience in the securities or financial services industry.
Alternative experience demonstrating high learning agility to acquire mainframe technology knowledge and apply previous experience to achieve operational outcomes.

Responsibilities

Consult with internal business groups to provide advanced application software development services or technical support.
Resolve highly complex problems that affect the corporation’s ability to conduct business.
Program well-designed, testable, and efficient code.
Analyze, design, and develop tests and test-automation suites.
Develop flowcharts, layouts, and documentation to satisfy requirements and solutions.
Maintain software functionality and currency, including technical debt and gain.
Participate actively in code reviews.
Integrate software components into a fully functional software system.
Apply security and privacy principles.
Use in-depth knowledge of various technologies to establish and influence broad-based technology strategy for large IT divisions.
Lead complex projects and programs.
Communicate complex technical topics clearly and effectively, and influence internal and external stakeholders at multiple levels.
Manage up, down, and across organizations, clients, and functions.