VP, Full-Stack Engineering — Lead Secure, Scalable Systems

BNY Mellon; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY Mellon in London is seeking a Full Stack Engineer to join our software leadership team. This hands-on VP role focuses on end-to-end delivery, secure and scalable systems, and overseeing distributed architectures in an agile setting.

You will partner with product and business stakeholders to drive modernization, cloud adoption, and a culture of engineering excellence across the lifecycle—build, test, deploy, monitor, and iterate.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of software engineering teams building distributed systems and microservices in agile environments (Scrum/Kanban).
• Deep Java experience (Spring) and architectural patterns for scalable, observable, testable systems; strong API design.
• Strong DevOps practices: CI/CD (GitLab), automated testing (JUnit/Spock), code reviews, telemetry/observability (Splunk, AppDynamics), containers (Docker), and cloud.
• Hands-on AI development using modern tools and IDEs (e.g., Windsurf) and experience integrating AI into product workflows.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder influence; ability to simplify complexity, evidence-based decisions and drive continuous improvement.
• Groovy/Spock and JavaScript/TypeScript with Angular for full-stack contexts preferred.
• Financial services background with risk and controls in regulated environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop inclusive, high-performing engineering teams; set clear objectives, coach talent, and foster succession planning.
• Own end-to-end delivery for critical software: requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, observability, and reliability.
• Raise engineering excellence and resilience: best practices and automation across code, testing, microservices/APIs, performance, and infrastructure; secure-by-design with threat modeling, logging/monitoring, incident playbooks, and disaster recovery.
• Partner with product, design, and operations to translate outcomes into measurable technical plans; guide architecture modernization, integrations, cloud/container adoption, and technical debt remediation.
• Represent engineering in program reviews and governance forums; ensure compliance, risk management, and operational excellence—aligned to BNY’s principles and strategic pillars.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Microservices

Agile/Scrum

Java/Spring

API design

DevOps

CI/CD

Testing

Observability

Docker

Angular

AI development

Communication

Tools

GitLab

IntelliJ

Windsurf

Docker

Splunk

AppDynamics

Job description

BNY Mellon in London is seeking a Full Stack Engineer to join our software leadership team. This hands-on VP role focuses on end-to-end delivery, secure and scalable systems, and overseeing distributed architectures in an agile setting.

You will partner with product and business stakeholders to drive modernization, cloud adoption, and a culture of engineering excellence across the lifecycle—build, test, deploy, monitor, and iterate.