Senior Director, Engineering Group Leader @ BNY Mellon

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We are seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Director, Engineering Group Leader to lead our Structured Finance Engineering organization. This role will be responsible for defining and executing the technology strategy supporting Structured Finance, Structured Debt, Deal Administration, Trustee Services, and related platforms across the Corporate Trust business.

This position requires a highly collaborative technology leader who can drive engineering excellence, modernize critical platforms, lead high-performing global teams, and partner closely with business, product, operations, and risk stakeholders to deliver scalable, resilient, and innovative solutions. Role is located in New York.

In This Role, You'll Make an Impact By:

Technology Strategy & Transformation

• Define and execute the multi-year technology roadmap supporting Structured Finance products, servicing platforms, and client-facing capabilities.
• Lead modernization initiatives focused on cloud adoption, API enablement, event-driven architecture, data platforms, AI-enabled workflows, and engineering automation.
• Establish technology investment priorities that align with business growth objectives, operational efficiency goals, and client outcomes.
• Partner with enterprise architecture teams to ensure technology solutions support long-term scalability, resiliency, and maintainability.

Engineering Leadership

• Lead multiple global engineering teams responsible for application development, platform engineering, quality engineering, and production support.
• Build a high-performance engineering culture centered on accountability, innovation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
• Develop engineering capabilities through mentoring, coaching, succession planning, and leadership development.
• Foster an AI-enabled engineering culture that leverages automation, generative AI, and intelligent tooling to accelerate software delivery and improve productivity.

Product & Business Partnership

• Partner closely with Product, Operations, Corporate Trust leadership, and business stakeholders to translate strategic priorities into actionable engineering roadmaps.
• Drive alignment between technology investments and business outcomes, balancing feature delivery, technical modernization, risk reduction, and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with clients and internal stakeholders to identify opportunities for innovation and enhanced client experiences.

Delivery Excellence

• Oversee delivery of complex strategic programs, ensuring predictable execution, quality outcomes, and achievement of business commitments.
• Establish engineering metrics, dashboards, and governance processes to improve transparency and execution effectiveness.
• Drive adoption of Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.
• Continuously improve engineering performance through DORA metrics, operational KPIs, and delivery health indicators.

Risk, Controls & Regulatory Management

• Ensure technology platforms comply with enterprise security standards, operational risk requirements, audit expectations, and regulatory obligations.
• Lead proactive risk identification, remediation planning, resiliency testing, and incident management activities.
• Drive strong governance and control frameworks across engineering and technology operations.

Financial & Organizational Leadership

• Manage multi-million-dollar budgets, resource planning, vendor relationships, and investment prioritization.
• Develop workforce strategies that align talent needs with business objectives.
• Lead recruitment and retention efforts while building diverse, inclusive, and high-performing teams.

To Be Successful In This Role, We're Seeking:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 15+ years of software engineering and technology leadership experience within complex enterprise environments.
• 8+ years of experience leading large engineering organizations and managing managers.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale technology transformation initiatives and modernization programs.
• Experience leading globally distributed engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, cloud-native architectures, DevSecOps, CI/CD, observability, and platform engineering.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and drive alignment across business and technology stakeholders.
• Strong financial management, organizational leadership, and strategic planning experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within Structured Finance, Structured Debt, Corporate Trust, Capital Markets, Fixed Income, Asset Servicing, or related financial services domains.
• Understanding of deal administration, trustee services, syndicated loans, structured products, securitization, or debt markets.
• Experience implementing AI-enabled engineering practices and intelligent automation solutions.
• Experience modernizing legacy platforms and migrating complex financial systems to cloud-based architectures.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related field.

Leadership Success Profile

The successful candidate will demonstrate

• Strategic and visionary leadership
• Strong engineering and architectural depth
• Business and client-centric thinking
• Execution excellence and operational rigor
• People leadership and talent development
• Data-driven decision making
• AI-first mindset and continuous learning orientation
• Effective stakeholder influence across executive leadership teams