Senior Vice President, Group Delivery Lead Manager

Archer; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY is seeking a Senior Vice President, Group Delivery Lead in Pittsburgh, PA, to lead end-to-end delivery across multiple agile teams within the Loans Enablement Platform. You will drive planning readiness, manage dependencies, and ensure governance while partnering with Product, Engineering, Architecture, and Quality Engineering.

You will communicate delivery health and risks to executives, mentor Scrum Leads, and promote a disciplined agile delivery culture that leverages AI-enabled practices

Qualifications

• 10+ years leading delivery of large-scale tech initiatives within Agile environments.
• Engage credibly with engineering teams and technical leaders on cloud, APIs, distributed systems, DevSecOps, CI/CD, and enterprise architecture.
• Proven experience managing cross-team dependencies, release planning, governance, risk management, and executive communications.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with data-driven decision making.
• Excellent executive communication, facilitation, and influencing across Product, Engineering, Architecture, and senior stakeholders.
• Experience with scaled Agile frameworks and PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt, and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring Scrum Leads and delivering leadership to delivery teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, IT, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery across multiple agile engineering and product teams, translating strategy into coordinated execution plans.
• Drive PI Planning readiness, cross-team planning, dependency management, risk mitigation, release coordination, and delivery governance.
• Understand distributed systems, platform services, APIs, cloud-native technologies, and architecture to identify risks and enable execution.
• Establish data-driven transparency with metrics, flow analytics, and executive reporting to improve predictability.
• Build partnerships to resolve cross-platform dependencies and impediments impacting strategic initiatives.
• Coach and develop Scrum Leads while promoting disciplined agile delivery and Platform Operating Model adoption.
• Champion AI-enabled delivery practices and automation to improve planning, forecasting, and operational efficiency.
• Influence stakeholders with clear, data-driven storytelling on health, risks, and options.

Skills

Executive communication

Cross-team coordination

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decision making

Agile delivery leadership

PI Planning leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Job description

Archer is collaborating with BNY to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

We're seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Vice President, Group Delivery Lead to join our Loans Enablement Platform team. This role is located in Pittsburgh, PA.

In this role, you'll make an impact in the following ways:

• Lead end-to-end delivery across multiple agile engineering and product teams, translating platform strategy and product roadmaps into coordinated execution plans that drive predictable delivery of enterprise platform capabilities.
• Drive PI Planning readiness, cross-team planning, dependency management, risk mitigation, release coordination, and delivery governance while partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Quality Engineering, and other disciplines as needed.
• Operate as a delivery leader capable of understanding distributed systems, platform services, APIs, cloud-native technologies, and engineering architecture sufficiently to identify delivery risks, facilitate technical decision making, and enable effective execution across complex initiatives.
• Establish delivery of transparency through data-driven metrics, flow analytics, and executive reporting while continuously improving predictability, backlog health, quality, and delivery outcomes across the Group.
• Build strong partnerships across groups to proactively identify and resolve cross-platform/cross-group dependencies, integration challenges, and impediments impacting strategic initiatives.
• Coach and develop Scrum Leads while fostering disciplined agile delivery practices, continuous improvement, operational excellence, and adoption of the Platform Operating Model.
• Champion the responsible adoption of AI-enabled delivery practices and automation to improve planning, forecasting, delivery insights, and operational efficiency.
• Influence stakeholders at multiple organizational levels by communicating delivery of health, risks, options, and recommendations through clear, concise, data-driven storytelling.

To be successful in this role, we're seeking the following:

• 10+ years of experience leading delivery of large-scale technology initiatives within Agile environments, including experience coordinating work across multiple engineering teams and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated technical fluency with modern software engineering practices including cloud technologies, APIs, distributed systems, DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, software delivery lifecycle, and enterprise architecture concepts. While not expected to perform hands‑on software development, the successful candidate must be able to engage credibly with engineering teams and technical leaders.
• Proven experience managing cross-team dependencies, release planning, delivery governance, risk management, and executive stakeholder communications within complex enterprise technology organizations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience using delivery metrics, flow measures, forecasting, and data-driven decision making to improve delivery performance.
• Excellent executive communication, facilitation, and influencing skills with the ability to build alignment across Product, Engineering, Architecture, and senior business stakeholders.
• Experience working within scaled Agile frameworks and leading PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt, and continuous improvement activities.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing Scrum Leads or other delivery professionals through coaching, mentoring, performance management, and/or organizational leadership.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

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.