Senior Vice President, Cloud Platform Engineering – Cloud Nerve Center

BNY; New York (NY); On-site; USD 260,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY is seeking a Senior Vice President to lead the Wealth Services Platform Cloud Nerve Center, establishing production environments, patterns, and operational capabilities for cloud migrations at scale. Drive secure, cost-efficient outcomes across security, resiliency, automation, and FinOps while coordinating with architecture, cyber, and risk teams.

The role centers on creating cloud-first standards, reusable blueprints, and migration playbooks, with accountability to senior stakeholders and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or equivalent professional experience.
• Extensive leadership experience in cloud, platform, infrastructure, SRE, or production engineering within a regulated enterprise.
• Deep expertise in a major public cloud platform, cloud networking, identity, security, containers, infrastructure as code, observability, and automation.
• Strong knowledge of multi-region resiliency, active-active architecture, disaster recovery, cloud edge technologies, private connectivity, and traffic management.
• Demonstrated experience with managed identity, zero-trust controls, FinOps, large-scale migrations, and complex production change.
• Executive communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to translate technical decisions into business, client, and risk outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own the Cloud Nerve Center roadmap and translate modernization priorities into measurable engineering outcomes.
• Lead traffic management, web application protection, private connectivity, and zero-trust controls for WSP cloud applications.
• Establish multi-region, active-active, recovery, observability, capacity, and incident-readiness standards for critical services.
• Deliver reusable landing zones, infrastructure-as-code modules, migration playbooks, and operational-readiness standards.
• Improve cost transparency and savings through autoscaling, rightsizing, allocation, forecasting, and cloud-efficiency standards.
• Ensure cloud capabilities meet cybersecurity, regulatory, audit, data-protection, and operational-control requirements.
• Align senior stakeholders, mentor technical leaders, and foster accountability, automation, reuse, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Cloud leadership

Executive communication

Cloud platform expertise

SRE & production

Multi-region resiliency

FinOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform / IaC

Akamai

Cloud security

Job description

Job Description

BNY is seeking a Senior Vice President to lead the Wealth Services Platform Cloud Nerve Center. This leader will establish the production environment, engineering patterns, and operational capabilities needed to migrate WSP applications to the cloud securely, efficiently, and at scale, with accountability across security, resiliency, connectivity, modernization, automation, and FinOps.

BNY is seeking a Senior Vice President to lead the Wealth Services Platform Cloud Nerve Center. This leader will establish the production environment, engineering patterns, and operational capabilities needed to migrate WSP applications to the cloud securely, efficiently, and at scale, with accountability across security, resiliency, connectivity, modernization, automation, and FinOps. The role will deliver cloud-first standards, reusable blueprints, and repeatable migration patterns while aligning application engineering, architecture, cyber, infrastructure, SRE, risk, finance, and external partners around secure, resilient, and cost-efficient outcomes. The role is located in Jersey City, NJ or New York City, NY.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy and execution: Own the Cloud Nerve Center roadmap and translate modernization priorities into measurable engineering outcomes.
• Cloud security and edge: Lead traffic management, web application protection, private connectivity, managed identity, and zero-trust controls for WSP cloud applications.
• Resiliency and operations: Establish multi-region, active-active, recovery, observability, capacity, and incident-readiness standards for critical services.
• Migration and modernization: Deliver reusable landing zones, infrastructure-as-code modules, migration playbooks, and operational-readiness standards that accelerate data center exits.
• FinOps: Improve cost transparency and savings through autoscaling, rightsizing, allocation, forecasting, and cloud-efficiency standards.
• Risk and governance: Ensure cloud capabilities meet BNY cybersecurity, regulatory, audit, data-protection, and operational-control requirements.
• Leadership: Align senior stakeholders, mentor technical leaders, and foster accountability, automation, reuse, and continuous improvement.

Key Initiatives and Outcomes

• Deliver secure cloud edge and traffic-management capabilities for WSP cloud applications.
• Enable the four-nines resiliency target for TIAA-supported services through measurable architecture and operational controls.
• Establish resilient private-line cloud connectivity for USAA.
• Improve application security and resiliency through managed identity and service-to-service authentication patterns.
• Reduce application cloud spend through autoscaling, rightsizing, demand management, and cloud-efficiency standards.
• Strengthen trading platform resiliency through third-region, active-active, recovery, and failover capabilities.
• Improve cloud edge continuity by implementing Akamai as an alternate content delivery network.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or equivalent professional experience.
• Extensive leadership experience in cloud, platform, infrastructure, SRE, or production engineering within a regulated enterprise.
• Deep expertise in a major public cloud platform, cloud networking, identity, security, containers, infrastructure as code, observability, and automation.
• Strong knowledge of multi-region resiliency, active-active architecture, disaster recovery, cloud edge technologies, private connectivity, and traffic management.
• Demonstrated experience with managed identity, zero-trust controls, FinOps, large-scale migrations, and complex production change.
• Executive communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to translate technical decisions into business, client, and risk outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud transformation experience in financial services or another highly regulated environment.
• Experience with Akamai or comparable edge-security platforms, data center exits, hybrid-cloud modernization, and private connectivity.
• Relevant cloud, security, Kubernetes, architecture, SRE, or FinOps certifications.
• Experience leading senior engineers, vendors, budgets, and multi-year platform roadmaps.

Leadership and Impact

The successful candidate will combine enterprise leadership with strong technical credibility, making disciplined trade-offs across security, resiliency, delivery speed, and cost. Success will be measured through migration velocity, availability, recovery performance, risk reduction, adoption of reusable patterns, cost savings, and delivery against client commitments.

About Us

At BNY, our culture allows us to run our company better and enables employees' growth and success. As a leading global financial services company at the heart of the global financial system, we influence nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day, our teams harness cutting-edge AI and breakthrough technologies to collaborate with clients, driving transformative solutions that redefine industries and uplift communities worldwide. Recognized as a top destination for innovators, BNY is where bold ideas meet advanced technology and exceptional talent. Together, we power the future of finance - and this is what is all about. Join us and be part of something extraordinary.

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Our Benefits And Rewards

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter. BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans. BNY assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The expected base salary for this position when employment commences can be found in the Job Info section at the bottom of the posting. Base salary offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Base salary is only part of the total rewards package, which may include eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive award. Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan as well as participate in Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and the employee’s eligible dependents. Eligible employees also may receive other benefits (including various paid time off benefits, such as vacation and sick time), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, the employee will be in an "at will" position and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payments or compensation programs) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.