Vice President, Solution Architect II

About the role

The Vice President, Solutions Architect role is available in Lake Mary, FL or Pittsburgh, PA on a hybrid schedule. This role is within the Data Solution and Services Platform team at BNY.

Responsibilities

• Delivery of high-quality architecture and design solutions that comply with bank policies.
• Work with the architecture community, application development teams, infrastructure engineering, and other stakeholders in developing technology and business solutions.
• Strategize and contribute to enterprise level technical initiatives on architecture and design.
• Ensure high quality delivery of the company's architecture and design services.
• Define the target state architecture for domain-specific initiatives.
• Lead research, definition, and implementation of architecture governance and design disciplines for business solutions.
• Define and promote common architecture designs, methodology, standards, and patterns across the enterprise.
• Strive to drive more value out of the bank’s information technology assets.
• Design stable and flexible high-performance solutions, maximizing reuse and avoiding redundancy.
• Provide architecture consulting services on more complex issues throughout the enterprise.
• Contribute to the achievement of multiple teams' objectives.
• Lead the definition and high-level design of an architectural solution for a specific Platform; develop proof-of-concepts and explore alternatives to help pods make architectural decisions; be involved in planning and budgeting activities.
• Synchronize architectural solution(s) across pods and resolve differences and dependencies; manage interdependencies with architectural solutions of Platforms.
• Coordinate with other Platform Group Leads to create reusable and scalable architectural components within the technical roadmap.
• Monitor and report the status of projects and applications within the Platform to ensure alignment with strategic direction from Architecture Lead as well as industry standards and best practices.
• Avoid solutions and designs are compliant with technology domain architecture as defined by the Architecture Lead.
• Agregate and analyze architecture related operational reports, KPIs and KRIs for the Platform.
• Provide guidance to technology teams and business partners in understanding the architectural options and technology choices that account for cost, risk, and time to delivery while leveraging strategic enterprise assets.
• Anticipate architectural issues / gaps and identifies emerging industry trends (i.e. future focused).
• Collaborate/Partner with other Platform Group Leads to ensure smooth navigation of change management tollgates, particularly Permit to Build (architectural design peer review process).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required.
• 12+ years of experience in technology and architecture roles (distributed stack) required; experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus.
• Trading and execution services, Custody Services, CRM, Call Centers, Client Communications systems, Billing Systems, Data lake, Data masters, Data quality management, Infrastructure, Security, Corporate Systems (HR, Legal, Sourcing, Corporate Treasury, Finance), Expertise: Seasoned developer or technical lead with expert knowledge of architecture frameworks, technology, tools, processes and procedures, Knowledge of BNY applications, Bank standards, infrastructure, and architectural design / solutions, Experience working on solutions that span across multiple business units or products, Experience in agile development preferred.

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills with ability to align on complex technical decisions.
• Ability to coordinate across business and tech stakeholders.
• Problem solving.
• Mindset & Behaviors: Passion for changing status quo and driving out-of-the-box ideas, Solution-oriented enabler mindset, Eagerness to 'roll up the sleeves' in execution and learning; pushes the team to do the same.

Skills

• Hands-on experience with multiple data platforms, distributed stack, on-premises, hybrid as well as cloud based.

Benefits

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.