Senior Director, Engineering Group Leader

Role Overview

BNY is seeking an experienced Engineering Group Leader to provide end-to-end engineering leadership for Project Crawford, a strategically important government-focused program.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead all engineering activities associated with Project Crawford, including architecture, software engineering, infrastructure, cloud platforms, operations, resiliency, and production support.
• Define and execute the engineering roadmap while ensuring alignment with business objectives, client commitments, regulatory requirements, and enterprise technology standards.
• Establish delivery governance, engineering controls, quality metrics, and operational excellence practices across the program.
• Build and lead high-performing engineering teams while fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Drive innovation through AI-assisted development, intelligent automation, and agentic workflow architectures where appropriate.
• Evaluate and implement emerging technologies that improve engineering productivity, operational efficiency, and delivery quality.
• Act as a senior engineering representative with government stakeholders and regulatory bodies.
• Ensure engineering decisions appropriately balance security, compliance, performance, and business outcomes.
• Provide engineering oversight and governance for third-party technology providers and business subcontractors.
• Manage technical dependencies, delivery risks, integration requirements, and implementation timelines across internal and external teams.
• Establish accountability mechanisms, technical review processes, and performance measurements for subcontractor-delivered work.
• Ensure program compliance with relevant federal and industry security frameworks and standards, including: FedRAMP, NIST 800-53 Rev. 5, and additional government security and operational requirements.

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive software engineering and technology leadership experience.
• Proven success leading large-scale, mission-critical engineering programs with complex stakeholder landscapes.
• Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, platform engineering, and enterprise-scale software delivery.
• Demonstrated experience designing highly resilient systems with strong focus on scalability, availability, geographic redundancy, and data protection.
• Experience leading engineering organizations responsible for regulated or government-related technology programs.
• Strong vendor management experience, including oversight of third-party technology providers and subcontractors.
• Excellent executive communication, relationship management, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Proven ability to influence senior executives, government stakeholders, clients, and cross-functional leadership teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering technology solutions in government-regulated environments.
• Hands-on knowledge of FedRAMP authorization processes and NIST 800-53 Rev. 5 controls.
• Experience with IRS Publication 1075 requirements and implementation practices.
• Experience leveraging LLMs, AI-assisted software development, and agentic workflow platforms in enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with modern DevSecOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), cloud security, and platform engineering practices.
• Leadership Profile

Experience with IRS Publication 1075 controls is highly desirable.

Pay Range

The base salary for this position is expected to be between $136,500 and $265,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base salary if hired will be determined on an individualized basis, including as to experience and market location, and is only part of the BNY total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, short and long-term incentive packages, and Company-sponsored benefit programs.

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