Vice President, Solutions Architect

At BNY, our culture empowers you to grow and succeed. As a leading global financial services company at the center of the world’s financial system we touch nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day around the globe, our 50,000+ employees bring the power of their perspective to the table to create solutions with our clients that benefit businesses, communities and people everywhere.

We continue to be a leader in the industry, awarded as a top home for innovators and for creating an inclusive workplace. Through our unique ideas and talents, together we help make money work for the world. This is what #LifeAtBNY is all about.

We welcome you to apply! When applying to this general posting, our expert BNY Talent Acquisition Team may also review your resume for consideration across other open roles within the company.

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President, Solution Architect to join our Data Solution and Services Platform team. This role is in Lake Mary, FL or Pittsburgh, PA – (HYBRID)

The ideal candidate must have significant financial services experience within the banking industry, specifically in one or more of the following domains:

• Asset Servicing: Global Custody, Fund Accounting, Middle-Office Solutions
• Issuer Services: Depository Receipts, Global Capital Markets
• Clearance and Collateral Management: Securities Clearance, Equity, Fixed Income
• Markets: Global Markets Trading, Liquidity and Finance, or Buy-Side Trading Solutions
• Structured Debt: Asset-back securities, collateral debt
• Credit Services: Securities-backed Lending, Credit Solutions
• Treasury Services: Liquidities Management, Trade Finance and Processing, Clearing and Settlement

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

• Delivery of high-quality architecture and design solutions that complies with bank policies.
• Work with the architecture community, application development teams, infrastructure engineering, and other stakeholders in developing technology and business solutions.
• Strategize and contribute to enterprise level technical initiatives on architecture and design.
• In addition to the individual contributor primary responsibilities shown below, may also have managerial responsibilities such as recruits, directs, motivates and develops staff, maximizing their individual contribution, their professional growth and their ability to function effectively with their colleagues as a team.
• Ensure high quality delivery of the company’s architecture and design services. Defines the target state architecture for domain-specific initiatives.
• Lead research, definition and implementation of architecture governance and design disciplines for business solutions. Defines and promotes common architecture designs, methodology, standards, and patterns across the enterprise.
• Strive to drive more value out of the bank’s information technology assets. Designs stable and flexible high-performance solutions, maximizing reuse and avoiding redundancy.
• Provides architecture consulting services on more complex issues throughout the enterprise.
• contributes to the achievement of multiple teams’ objectives.
• Primary Responsibilities in a group leadership role as a Solution Architect:
  • Lead the definition and high-level design of an architectural solution for a specific Platform; develop proof-of-concepts and explore alternatives to help pods to make architectural decisions; be involved in planning and budgeting activities
  • Synchronize architectural solution(s) across pods and resolve differences and dependencies; manage interdependencies with architectural solutions of Platforms
  • Coordinate with other Platform Group Leads to create reusable and scalable architectural components within the technical roadmap 
  • Monitor and report the status of projects and applications within the Platform to ensure alignment with strategic direction from Architecture Lead as well as industry standards and best practices
  • Ensure solutions and designs are compliant with technology domain architecture as defined by the Architecture Lead
  • Aggregate and analyze architecture related operational reports, KPIs and KRIs for the Platform
  • Provide guidance to technology teams and business partners in understanding the architectural options and technology choices that account for cost, risk, and time to delivery while leveraging strategic enterprise assets
  • Anticipate architectural issues / gaps and identifies emerging industry trends (i.e. future focused)
  • Collaborate/ Partner with other Platform Group Leads to ensure smooth navigation of change management tollgates, particularly Permit to Build (architectural design peer review process)
  • The Candidate is expected not only to drive Architecture Decisions within Group but also expected to Operate across Platforms, collaborating with Engg leads/Product Leads driving Commercial, Resiliency Outcomes
  • The Candidate is expected to bring a level of expertise that only is gathered from long industry experience (minimally 15+ years) to influence solutioning
  • This role is expected to provide the solution architecture for the group by collaborating with multiple teams such as engineering, architecture, infrastructure etc., and bring Technology Acumen and Gravitas that can only be found with years of Industry Experience in Solutioning across varied Technology Ecosystems.
  • Target State Architecture for DSS includes complex integrations across multiple consumer applications and types of data. It involves cutting-edge technologies or emerging trends as well as high levels of regulatory compliance and security requirements. We are looking for a seasoned architect who has hands on experience with multiple data platforms, distributed stack, on-premises, hybrid as well as cloud based.

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required.
• 12+ years of experience in technology and architecture roles (distributed stack) required; experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus.
  • Trading and execution services
  • Custody Services
  • CRM, Call Centers, Client Communications systems
  • Billing Systems
  • Data lake, Data masters, Data quality management
  • Infrastructure, Security
  • Corporate Systems (HR, Legal, Sourcing, Corporate Treasury, Finance)
• Expertise:
  • Seasoned developer or technical lead with expert knowledge of architecture frameworks, technology, tools, processes and procedures
  • Knowledge of BNY applications, Bank standards, infrastructure, and architectural design / solutions 
  • Experience working on solutions that span across multiple business units or products
  • Experience in agile development preferred
• Individual Skills:
  • Strong communication skills with ability to align on complex technical decisions 
  • Ability to coordinate across business and tech stakeholders
  • Problem solving
• Mindset & Behaviors:
  • Passion for changing status quo and driving out-of-the-box ideas
  • Solution-oriented enabler mindset
  • Eagerness to ‘roll up the sleeves’ in execution and learning; pushes the team to do the same

At BNY, our culture speaks for itself. Here’s a few of our awards:

• America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2024
• World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2024
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Corporate Equality Index, 100% score, 2023-2024
• Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion, Disability: IN – 100% score, 2023-2024
• “Most Just Companies”, Just Capital and CNBC, 2024
• Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, Top performing company for Sustainability, 2024
• Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index (GEI), 2023

Our Benefits and Rewards:

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.