Senior Director, AI-Driven Data Platform Leadership

BNY Mellon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 210,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY Mellon in New York invites applications for Senior Director, Data/AI Engineering Manager. This role leads a strategic engineering function delivering data, AI, and platform capabilities to enable enterprise priorities.

You will shape AI context layer with knowledge graphs, semantic models, and metadata-driven approaches, drive modernization of delivery, and build high-performing teams while ensuring governance, risk controls, and measurable business value at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required; advanced degree preferred.
• Extensive leadership in data, AI, and transformation in financial services or regulated environments.
• Experience leading large matrixed organizations and delivering modernization initiatives.
• Proven ability to build enterprise data and AI capabilities and governance.
• Knowledge of AI context layer concepts including knowledge graphs, semantic models, ontologies, metadata frameworks, lineage, contextual retrieval.

Responsibilities

• Lead a Data/AI Engineering function and set direction for engineering strategy, solution delivery, platform enablement, data interoperability, AI adoption, and organizational performance.
• Define strategic vision and align data/AI priorities with business goals, architectural direction, regulatory expectations, risk requirements, and transformation objectives.
• Build and lead high-performing teams across a large-scale organization and ensure alignment to enterprise priorities.
• Drive scalable, resilient, and well-controlled data and AI engineering platforms to improve data usability and trust.
• Lead development of the AI context layer including knowledge graphs, ontology, semantic modeling, metadata, lineage, and contextual data frameworks.

Skills

Data engineering

AI/ML platforms

Enterprise architecture

Metadata management

Governance

Digital transformation

Knowledge graph

Semantic modeling

Ontology

Metadata frameworks

Lineage

Contextual data

AI-enabled delivery

Automation

Platform engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

BNY Mellon in New York invites applications for Senior Director, Data/AI Engineering Manager. This role leads a strategic engineering function delivering data, AI, and platform capabilities to enable enterprise priorities.

You will shape AI context layer with knowledge graphs, semantic models, and metadata-driven approaches, drive modernization of delivery, and build high-performing teams while ensuring governance, risk controls, and measurable business value at scale.