Senior Vice President, Solution Architect

BNY Mellon • Pittsburgh, PA

9d • $120,000 - $200,000

About The Position

BNY is seeking a Senior Vice President, Solution Architect to join its Foundational Frameworks team in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The role defines and evolves enterprise architecture and solution designs that align with business strategy, architectural principles, and technology standards. It develops scalable, resilient, high-performing solutions for complex business and technology environments, evaluates emerging technologies, and identifies opportunities to maximize technology investments through simplification, reuse, and modernization.

The position partners with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to create architecture solutions that balance business needs, risk, scalability, and performance. It provides architectural guidance throughout the solution lifecycle, ensures decisions align with enterprise standards and security requirements, and influences technology direction across multiple teams through technical leadership and collaboration.

BNY describes its culture as collaborative and focused on employee growth, innovation, and technology in financial services. The company offers competitive compensation and benefits, wellbeing programs, flexible global resources, and paid leaves, including paid volunteer time. Compensation may include eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive award. Eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan and participate in company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans; other benefits may depend on the position offered.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• 10–12 years of experience in technology and architecture roles.
• Leadership and influencing skills.
• Ability to make hard and fast decisions.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for challenging the status quo and developing out-of-the-box ideas.
• Ability to work effectively within a non-hierarchical culture that promotes transparency, trust, and open collaboration.
• Willingness to participate directly in execution and learning and encourage the team to do the same.
• Hands-on development skills, including SCM, CI/CD, and related tooling.
• Ability to communicate a vision and gain others' support.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree.
• Experience in the securities or financial services industry.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve enterprise architecture and solution designs aligned with business strategy, architectural principles, and technology standards.
• Design scalable, resilient, high-performing solutions for complex business and technology environments.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend innovative approaches to address business challenges and opportunities.
• Identify opportunities to maximize technology-investment value through simplification, reuse, and modernization.
• Partner with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to develop architecture solutions balancing business needs, risk, scalability, and performance.
• Provide architectural guidance and technical expertise throughout the solution lifecycle, from strategy through implementation.
• Ensure architecture decisions align with enterprise standards, security requirements, and best practices.
• Influence technology direction across multiple teams through technical thought leadership, collaboration, and architectural decision-making.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Wellbeing programs.
• Flexible global resources and tools.
• Generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time.
• Potential eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive award.
• Eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan.
• Eligible employees may participate in company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans.
• Other benefits, including vacation and sick time, may be available depending on the position offered.

What This Job Offers

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