Director, Full-Stack Engineer

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation; Broughton; On-site; GBP 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation in Manchester, UK, seeks a Director, Full Stack Engineer to lead end-to-end delivery of scalable, secure full‑stack solutions for the Conventional Trust Platform.

This role emphasizes an AI‑first mindset, modernization, strong engineering leadership, and balancing delivery with architecture, governance, and operational resilience to improve client and business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading full stack software engineering teams in enterprise environments.
• Experience with modern platform architectures, microservices, and API-first design.
• Strong emphasis on AI-enabled development, automation, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of full stack application development across the Conventional Trust Platform.
• Drive platform modernization, improve resilience, and enhance client outcomes.
• Champion engineering best practices, SDLC discipline, and secure coding across teams.

Skills

Full stack leadership

Enterprise environments

AI-first mindset

Microservices

API-first design

Platform modernization

Observability

Secure coding

Job description

solutions. Manage and mentor engineering teams across frontend, backend, APIs, integration layers, and platform services. Drive platform modernization initiatives that improve performance, maintainability, control effectiveness, and time to market. Embed an AI-first engineering approach by identifying opportunities to use AI for developer productivity, process optimization, code quality, testing acceleration, operational insights, and intelligent automation. Partner closely with product, operations, architecture, infrastructure, risk, and business stakeholders to align engineering delivery with platform priorities. Ensure strong SDLC discipline including requirements clarity, design quality, peer review, automated testing, release governance, production validation, and support readiness. Champion engineering best practices in full stack architecture, reusable design patterns, API strategy, observability, and secure coding. Strengthen platform stability and operational resilience by reducing

manual touchpoints, improving exception handling, and enhancing recovery and support processes. Support release planning, prioritization, and execution for strategic enhancements and remediation activities. Translate technical initiatives into business value through improved controls, reduced operational risk, enhanced audit readiness, and better user experience. Foster a culture aligned to BNY principles: Be Client Obsessed, Spark Progress, Own It, Stay Curious, and Thrive Together. Contribute to talent development, succession planning, and high-performance team culture within the engineering organization. To be successful in this role, were seeking the following: Significant experience leading full stack software engineering teams in enterprise environments. Strong hands-on or leadership experience across frontend, backend, APIs, middleware, databases, and cloud/infrastructure-integrated application architecture. Proven ability to lead large-scale platform enhancements, modernization, or

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience in financial services, asset servicing, trust, custody, or adjacent platform-based enterprise domains. Exposure to domain modernization involving workflow controls, exception

Ideal Candidate Profile:

hackajob is partnering directly with BNY Mellon to hire for this role. Were seeking a future team member for the role of Director, Full Stack Engineer to join our Conventional Trust Platform team. This role is located in Manchester. Overview BNY is seeking a Director, Full Stack Development for the Conventional Trust Platform in Manchester, UK. This leader will drive the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of full stack technology solutions that modernize platform capabilities, strengthen operational resilience, and improve client and business outcomes. The role requires an AI-first mindset, combining strong engineering leadership with practical application of AI-enabled development, automation, and data-driven decision-making across the software delivery lifecycle. In this role, youll make an impact in the following ways: Lead the end-to-end delivery of full stack application development across the Conventional Trust Platform, ensuring scalable, resilient, and secure technology, reduction, auditability, and service resilience. Familiarity with event-driven architecture, microservices, API-first design, and modern UI engineering practices. Experience with data-driven engineering management, platform metrics, and operational insight tooling. Understanding of AI governance, responsible AI usage, and practical enterprise adoption patterns.

The ideal candidate is a strong engineering leader who can balance delivery, architecture, people leadership, and platform control needs. They bring an AI-first mindset not as a buzzword, but as a practical operating modelusing AI to improve how teams build, test, support, and evolve software. They are comfortable leading in a complex enterprise setting and can connect engineering execution to operational resilience, modernization, and business impact. 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 worlds 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. Recognized as a top destination for innovators, BNY is where bold ideas meet advanced technology and exceptional talent. Together, we power the future of finance and this is what #LifeAtBNY is all about. Join us and be part of something extraordinary. TPBN1_UKTJ