Chief Architect, Reference Data & Business Architecture

BNY Mellon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY Mellon in New York seeks a Senior Vice President, Business Data Architect to convert the Reference Data strategy into practical business architecture and engineering-ready requirements. You will model key domains such as Party, Client, Legal Entity, Account, Contract, Product and Instrument, and define data patterns, governance, and lifecycle management.

Collaboration with Product, Operations and Engineering will translate business outcomes into concrete data models and implementations.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Reference Data, Master Data and Information Architecture.
• Experience designing complex party, client, account or relationship models.
• Experience with authoritative-source and lifecycle-management models, global identifiers, entity resolution, golden-record or registry patterns.
• Experience translating business scenarios into engineering-ready requirements.
• Experience partnering with Product, Operations, Architecture and Engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in CS or related discipline; 10–12 years in data management services.

Responsibilities

• Define conceptual and logical models for Party, Client, Legal Entity, Account, Contract, Product, Service, Instrument and related hierarchies.
• Model complex relationships across Asset Servicing.
• Define enterprise identifier, cross-reference, entity-resolution, hierarchy and effective-dating patterns.
• Translate business outcomes and representative scenarios into testable rules and requirements.
• Define authoritative-source, registry and Reference Data distribution patterns.
• Establish ownership and decision rights across Product, Operations, Data, UCM, CRM and servicing platforms.
• Design match, resolve or create rules, including stewardship, controls, exceptions and escalation.
• Develop reusable transition and adoption patterns for additional business domains.
• Use SQL and data profiling to validate relationships, hierarchies, business rules and data-quality assumptions.
• Analyze duplicate, incomplete and conflicting identifiers and trace representative records across systems.
• Develop lightweight prototypes to test architecture hypotheses and accelerate decisions.
• Translate the architecture into functional requirements, mappings, acceptance criteria and controls.
• Partner with Engineering on options, dependencies, sequencing and implementation trade-offs.

Skills

Reference Data

Master Data

Business Data Architecture

Data Modeling

SQL

Data Profiling

Entity Resolution

Stakeholder Management

Leadership

Asset Servicing

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline

Job description

BNY Mellon in New York seeks a Senior Vice President, Business Data Architect to convert the Reference Data strategy into practical business architecture and engineering-ready requirements. You will model key domains such as Party, Client, Legal Entity, Account, Contract, Product and Instrument, and define data patterns, governance, and lifecycle management.

Collaboration with Product, Operations and Engineering will translate business outcomes into concrete data models and implementations.