Senior Director, Payments Platform Engineering

BNY; New York (NY); On-site; USD 320,000 - 860,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid volunteer time

401(k) + benefits

Paid time off

Annual discretionary incentive award

Job summary

BNY is seeking a Managing Director, Engineering Group Leader for our Payments Platform Engineering in New York. You will define and execute the engineering strategy for mission-critical payments, oversee architecture, modernization, delivery, resiliency, and production stability across wires, ACH, Zelle, and related services.

You will partner with product, operations, risk, compliance, cybersecurity, and regulators to deliver secure, resilient end-to-end payment solutions; drive AI-enabled

Qualifications

• 15+ years of technology leadership experience in financial services/payments or regulated environments.
• Deep payments technology, transaction processing, and API ecosystems expertise.
• Proven modernization, resiliency engineering, and production platform leadership.
• Experience guiding audits, risk, compliance, cybersecurity, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Exceptional executive communication and global-team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the engineering strategy for the payments platform, overseeing architecture, modernization, delivery, resiliency, and production stability.
• Lead the transformation toward a scalable, secure, high-availability platform with low latency.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across distributed systems, APIs, data platforms, and production readiness.
• Partner with product, operations, risk, compliance, cybersecurity, sanctions, and business leaders to deliver secure end-to-end solutions.
• Drive AI-enabled practices and intelligent automation to improve delivery and reliability.
• Lead and develop large global engineering organizations with a culture of accountability and excellence.
• Engage executives, governance bodies, auditors, and regulators to align modernization priorities.
• Establish and track outcomes across availability, resiliency, throughput, latency, and technical debt reduction.

Skills

Technology leadership

Payments technology

Distributed systems

APIs

Cloud & hybrid architecture

Executive communication

AI in engineering

Global team building

Regulatory risk liaison

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Job description

BNY is seeking a Managing Director, Engineering Group Leader for our Payments Platform Engineering in New York. You will define and execute the engineering strategy for mission-critical payments, oversee architecture, modernization, delivery, resiliency, and production stability across wires, ACH, Zelle, and related services.

You will partner with product, operations, risk, compliance, cybersecurity, and regulators to deliver secure, resilient end-to-end payment solutions; drive AI-enabled