Vice President, Solution Architect II

BNY•Warsaw, FL

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

BNY is seeking a Vice President, Solution Architect to join its Data Solution and Services Platform team in Lake Mary, Florida, or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in a hybrid role. The position focuses on delivering architecture and design solutions that comply with bank policies, defining target-state architecture for domain-specific initiatives, and contributing to enterprise technical initiatives. The role works with architecture, application development, infrastructure engineering, business partners, and other stakeholders to deliver stable, flexible, high-performance solutions that maximize reuse and avoid redundancy. The Solution Architect will lead architecture for a specific platform, develop proof-of-concepts, assess alternatives, coordinate architecture across pods, manage interdependencies, and help shape technical roadmaps. The role also monitors projects and applications for alignment with strategic direction and industry practices, supports architecture governance, advises on technology choices and tradeoffs, and collaborates across platforms to support commercial and resiliency outcomes. Depending on the assignment, the role may include recruiting, directing, motivating, and developing staff. The target-state architecture for Data Solution and Services involves complex integrations across consumer applications and data types, emerging technologies, and significant regulatory and security requirements. BNY seeks an experienced architect with hands-on experience across multiple data platforms and distributed systems, including on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. Relevant financial services experience, particularly in banking and the listed business domains, is emphasized.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
12+ years of experience in technology and architecture roles involving distributed stacks.
At least 15 years of industry experience is expected for the cross-platform architecture and solutioning responsibilities described in the posting.
Expert knowledge of architecture frameworks, technology, tools, processes, and procedures.
Knowledge of BNY applications, bank standards, infrastructure, and architectural design and solutions.
Experience delivering solutions that span multiple business units or products.
Hands-on experience with multiple data platforms and distributed stacks across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
Strong communication skills and ability to align stakeholders on complex technical decisions.
Ability to coordinate across business and technology stakeholders.
A solution-oriented, execution-minded approach, including willingness to work hands-on and encourage the team to do the same.
Ability to challenge the status quo and drive innovative ideas.

Nice To Haves

Significant financial services experience in the banking industry, especially in Asset Servicing, Issuer Services, Clearance and Collateral Management, Markets, Structured Debt, Credit Services, or Treasury Services.
Experience in the securities or financial services industry.
Experience with trading and execution services, custody services, CRM, call centers, client communications systems, billing systems, data lakes, data masters, data quality management, infrastructure, security, or corporate systems.
Experience in agile development.

Responsibilities

Deliver high-quality architecture and design solutions that comply with bank policies.
Collaborate with architecture, application development, infrastructure engineering, and other stakeholders to develop technology and business solutions.
Contribute to enterprise-level technical initiatives involving architecture and design.
Define target-state architecture for domain-specific initiatives.
Lead research, definition, and implementation of architecture governance and design disciplines for business solutions.
Define and promote common architecture designs, methodologies, standards, and patterns across the enterprise.
Design stable, flexible, high-performance solutions that maximize reuse and avoid redundancy.
Provide architecture consulting for complex issues across the enterprise.
Lead the definition and high-level design of an architectural solution for a specific platform, develop proof-of-concepts, explore alternatives, and participate in planning and budgeting.
Synchronize architectural solutions across pods, resolve differences and dependencies, and manage interdependencies with other platform solutions.
Coordinate with other Platform Group Leads to create reusable and scalable architectural components within the technical roadmap.
Monitor and report project and application status within the platform to ensure alignment with strategic direction, industry standards, and best practices.
Ensure solutions and designs comply with technology-domain architecture defined by the Architecture Lead.
Aggregate and analyze architecture-related operational reports, KPIs, and KRIs for the platform.
Guide technology teams and business partners in evaluating architecture options and technology choices based on cost, risk, delivery time, and use of strategic enterprise assets.
Anticipate architecture issues and gaps and identify emerging industry trends.
Partner with other Platform Group Leads to navigate change-management tollgates, including Permit to Build architectural design peer review.
Drive architecture decisions within the group and collaborate across platforms with engineering and product leads to support commercial and resiliency outcomes.
Collaborate with engineering, architecture, infrastructure, and other teams to provide solution architecture for the group.
Where applicable, recruit, direct, motivate, and develop staff.