Director, Architecture Lead

Director, Architecture Lead

BNY is a leading global financial services company that empowers its employees to grow and succeed. We leverage cutting‑edge AI and technology to deliver transformative solutions that redefine industries and uplift communities worldwide.

Key Responsibilities

• Define end‑to‑end target and transitional architectures for payments and compliance platforms, integrating SWIFT, ACH, RTP, and related rails.
• Establish and maintain reference architectures, design patterns, and guardrails to meet performance, resiliency (RTO/RPO), security, and compliance objectives.
• Lead architecture reviews, threat modeling, and resiliency assessments; ensure adherence to standards and best practices.
• Rapidly produce high‑quality designs, diagrams, sequence and data flow models, and documentation that are clear, consistent, and actionable.
• Communicate complex topics simply for compliance, business stakeholders, and regulators; engage in deep technical discussions with developers, data engineers, and SREs.
• Translate regulatory requirements such as AML/KYC, data retention, and transaction monitoring into technical designs and control implementation guidance.
• Architect solutions for transaction monitoring, surveillance, and other core compliance capabilities.
• Partner with Financial Crime teams to design detection, investigation, and reporting capabilities; align technology to typologies and risk indicators.
• Ensure designs meet or exceed standards for security, privacy, auditability, traceability, and regulatory expectations.
• Define critical data elements, data models, lineage, mapping, and data quality rules for payments and compliance domains.
• Drive metadata management, master/reference data strategies, and robust data controls across ingestion, processing, storage, and consumption.
• Collaborate with data engineering for scalable pipelines, streaming, and batch processing; ensure data reliability, timeliness, and completeness.
• Work across Compliance Engineering and partner platforms/practices to deliver integrated solutions; facilitate design decisions and trade‑offs.
• Mentor architects and engineers; cultivate a collaborative, high‑performing culture aligned to BNY principles.
• Contribute to roadmap planning, capacity and cost optimization, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software, solution, data, or enterprise architecture with prior hands‑on engineering experience.
• Proven delivery of large‑scale, mission‑critical payment systems and/or financial crime platforms in regulated financial services environments.
• Deep understanding of payment rails and formats (e.g., SWIFT ISO 20022, NACHA/ACH, RTP), messaging, clearing/settlement flows, and exception handling.
• Strong data architecture expertise: relational and distributed databases, schema design, CDE definition, data quality, lineage, mapping, and governance.
• Integration patterns (APIs, event streaming, messaging), microservices, and distributed systems performance and resiliency engineering.
• Security and compliance controls: encryption, key management, identity/authorization, logging/monitoring, auditability, and regulatory reporting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; adept at simplifying complex technical concepts for non‑technical audiences and regulators.
• Effective collaborator and influencer; able to lead design forums, resolve technical conflicts, and drive consensus across teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Relevant cloud (e.g., Azure, AWS), data (e.g., data management/governance), security (e.g., CISSP), or AML/Financial Crime (e.g., CAMS) certifications.
• Proficiency with industry‑standard diagramming and modeling tools (e.g., UML/BPMN, data modeling tools) and CI/CD or Infrastructure‑as‑Code.
• Familiarity with ISO 20022, NACHA rules, SWIFT CSP, NIST/industry security standards, and operational risk/resiliency frameworks.

Success Measures

• High‑quality architectures that meet performance, resiliency, security, and compliance requirements and pass governance reviews.
• Clear, consistent documentation and diagrams enabling efficient delivery and audit readiness.
• Measurable improvements in system reliability, throughput/latency, data quality, and incident reduction.
• Strong cross‑team collaboration and stakeholder satisfaction across Compliance, Engineering, and business functions.

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and pay‑for‑performance philosophy. We provide flexible global resources and programs to support your health, personal resilience, and financial goals, including paid leave, paid volunteer time, and other benefits such as 401(k) participation and medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage for you and eligible dependents. Base salary offered may vary based on location, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Base salary is only part of the total rewards package and may include eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive award.

BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer – Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.