Director of AI Forward Deployment

BNY; Manchester; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits and rewards

Job summary

BNY is seeking a senior leader to drive Forward Deployment Engineering (FDE) engagements across business and platform domains. You will set priorities, allocate engineering capacity, and ensure production-ready delivery within time-boxed windows.

You will be the senior technical voice in discovery with executives, translating ambiguous opportunities into feasible delivery plans and evolving the FDE playbook with clear entry/exit criteria and governance standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent work experience; advanced degree is beneficial.
• 14+ years of software development and technical leadership experience, including production systems and cross-functional delivery programs; experience in securities or financial services is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of FDE engagements across business and platform domains; set priorities and allocate engineering capacity.
• Serve as the senior technical voice in discovery with executive sponsors and business leaders; translate opportunities into delivery plans.
• Own and evolve the FDE playbook: standards, entry/exit criteria, handoff protocols, and team operating norms.
• Drive a reuse-first mandate across the FDE team; establish patterns to build, extend, or standardize; capture learnings as firm-wide reference architectures.
• Define quality and governance standards for the FDE function: security-by-default, observability, testability, and operational readiness.

Skills

Java

TypeScript/JavaScript

Python

APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related discipline

Job description

BNY is seeking a senior leader to drive Forward Deployment Engineering (FDE) engagements across business and platform domains. You will set priorities, allocate engineering capacity, and ensure production-ready delivery within time-boxed windows.

You will be the senior technical voice in discovery with executives, translating ambiguous opportunities into feasible delivery plans and evolving the FDE playbook with clear entry/exit criteria and governance standards.