Director, Architecture Lead

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Platform Level Architect – Global Payments & Trade to join our Global Payments & Trade team. This role is located in Pittsburg.

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

• Define, maintain, and communicate the target-state architecture for the Global Payments & Trade platform.
• Translate business strategy and platform priorities into architecture roadmaps, standards, reference architectures, and implementation patterns.
• Provide strategic and hands-on architectural leadership across major platform initiatives, transformation programs, and critical design decisions.
• Establish and govern architecture guardrails across application, integration, data, infrastructure, security, and operational domains.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure solution designs are scalable, resilient, reusable, practical, and aligned with delivery objectives.
• Drive technology simplification and standardization through common patterns, shared capabilities, and reduction of platform duplication.
• Identify and address legacy constraints, technical debt, architectural risks, and modernization opportunities.
• Ensure platform solutions meet expectations for availability, performance, scalability, security, observability, recoverability, and supportability.
• Lead architecture governance activities, including architecture reviews, design approvals, architectural decision records, and exception management.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, operations, risk, control, and business stakeholders to balance innovation, resilience, speed to market, and risk management.
• Guide the adoption of data-driven solutions and AI/ML-enabled capabilities where appropriate to improve platform efficiency, intelligence, automation, and decision support.
• Mentor solution architects, senior engineers, and technical leads to strengthen architecture capabilities and engineering excellence throughout the organization.
• Apply deep Payments and Treasury Services domain knowledge to support critical transaction flows, liquidity and cash management capabilities, operational controls, client servicing, and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure architecture decisions support high-volume transaction processing, straight-through processing, operational resilience, and service reliability.

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

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• Significant experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, platform architecture, or senior engineering leadership roles within large-scale, complex enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated success designing and governing distributed systems and enterprise platforms supporting mission-critical and transaction-intensive workloads.
• Strong experience across multiple architecture domains including applications, APIs, integration, data, cloud infrastructure, security, and operational platforms.
• Strong understanding of Payments and Treasury Services technology ecosystems, including payment processing architectures, cash management services, transaction workflows, reconciliation, auditability, and operational controls.
• Experience supporting large-scale modernization, platform transformation, cloud adoption, and legacy rationalization initiatives.
• Expertise with modern architecture and engineering practices including microservices, service-oriented architecture, API-led integration, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous messaging patterns.
• Strong knowledge of database technologies, data modeling, data movement strategies, and integration architectures across relational and non-relational platforms.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures, containerized deployment models, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps practices, and software delivery automation.
• Understanding of performance engineering, scalability strategies, operational resilience, disaster recovery, observability, logging, tracing, and production support considerations.
• Strong knowledge of security-by-design principles, including authentication, authorization, encryption, secure integration, and risk management.
• Experience assessing and integrating AI/ML capabilities within enterprise platforms, including machine learning lifecycle concepts, responsible AI principles, governance requirements, and GenAI-enabled architectures.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across product, engineering, operations, control, and business organizations without relying solely on direct authority.
• Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

• Demonstrated success mentoring and developing technical talent across architecture and engineering communities.

   

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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.

BNY assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The expected base salary for this position when employment commences can be found in the Job Info section at the bottom of the posting. 

Base salary offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Base salary is only part of the total rewards package, which may include eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive award. Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan as well as participate in Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and the employee’s eligible dependents. Eligible employees also may receive other benefits (including various paid time off benefits, such as vacation and sick time), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, the employee will be in an “at will” position and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payments or compensation programs) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.