In this role, you'll make an impact in the following ways:
- Lead a portfolio of FDE engagements across business and platform domains; set priorities, allocate engineering capacity, and ensure engagements are scoped to deliver measurable value within time-boxed windows.
- Serve as the senior technical voice in discovery with executive sponsors and business leaders; translate ambiguous, high-stakes opportunities into feasible, production-ready delivery plans.
- Own and evolve the FDE playbook: define discovery-to-production standards, engagement entry and exit criteria, handoff protocols, and working norms that govern how the team operates.
- Drive the reuse-first mandate across the FDE team: establish patterns for when to build, extend, or standardize; ensure field learnings are converted into firm-wide reference architectures and platform contributions.
- Set quality and governance standards for the FDE function: secure-by-default practices, observability, testability, and operational readiness expectations applied consistently across all engagements.
- Define the institutionalization model for forward deployment: ensure every engagement ends with a clear handoff, documented ownership, and a capable owning team — not a dependency on FDE.
- Represent the FDE function to architecture, control, security, compliance, and senior technology leadership; shape firm-wide AI and platform strategy based on production delivery evidence.
- Identify capability gaps and platform investment opportunities surfaced through FDE field work; translate these into actionable recommendations for platform and engineering leadership.
- Build and grow the FDE team: recruit, develop, and retain senior engineers; set a high technical bar and a culture of disciplined, evidence-backed delivery.
- Stay at the frontier of AI, platform engineering, and regulated delivery practices; bring that knowledge back into the function and the broader technology organization
To be successful in this role, we're seeking the following:
- Basic Qualifications Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required; advanced degree is beneficial.
- 14+ years of software development and technical leadership experience, including direct accountability for production systems and cross-functional delivery programs; experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus. Strong foundational understanding of modern AI and agentic application patterns, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic search, and agent-based system design. Hands-on experience building backend services, APIs, and production systems. Experience working across architecture, data, and platform concerns rather than only within a narrow laye.
Preferred Qualifications
- Track record of building or scaling a delivery capability (e.g., solutions engineering, forward deployment, platform engineering) within a large enterprise or regulated environment.
- Demonstrated experience delivering AI, data, or workflow-heavy solutions at scale in regulated environments, with accountability for production outcomes. Strong systems-thinking and architecture judgment across services, data, and infrastructure; able to evaluate and influence technology choices at a divisional level.
- Experience defining and operating delivery standards, playbooks, or center-of-excellence functions.
- Experience balancing speed with governance, security, and operational rigor across a team or portfolio.
- Deep familiarity with reusable platform patterns, internal developer platforms, and productized infrastructure.
Technical Skills
- Strong software engineering skills in one or more of: Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python.
- Experience with APIs, service integration, and secure-by-default engineering practices.
- Ability to work across data, AI, workflow, and platform layers as needed. Comfort using modern AI tooling pragmatically without confusing prototypes for production systems.
- Familiarity with application frameworks and containerization.
Non-Technical Skills
- Exceptional written and verbal communication; able to advise and influence senior business and technology executives.
- Strong strategic and product judgment: knows which opportunities are worth pursuing and which are not.
- Proven ability to lead across matrixed organizations and build alignment without formal authority.
- Structured tradeoff thinking at portfolio scale, balancing risk, speed, and long-term platform health.
- Bias toward action with disciplined follow-through and strong artifact discipline.
People Leadership
- Leads, grows, and retains a team of senior engineers; sets technical standards and delivery culture for the FDE function.
- Develops talent pipelines and mentors engineers toward greater technical and delivery autonomy.
- Influences technology implementation and forward-deployed delivery standards across large IT divisions.
About Us
At BNY, our culture allows us to run our company better and enables employees’ growth and success. As a leading global financial services company at the heart of the global financial system, we influence nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day, our teams harness cutting-edge AI and breakthrough technologies to collaborate with clients, driving transformative solutions that redefine industries and uplift communities worldwide.
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