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BNY Mellon

Head of Engineering - Pipeline Requisition

Pittsburgh, PA

Overview

Note: This is a pipeline requisition and does not represent any one particular job opening. By applying to this pipeline requisition, your interest will be reviewed for JOB TITLE openings based upon your background and disclosed work preference.

Bring your ideas. Make history.
BNY Mellon offers an exciting array of future-forward careers at the intersection of business, finance, and technology. We are one of the world's top asset management and banking firms that manages trillions of dollars in assets, custody and/or administration. Known as the "bank of banks" - 97% of the world's top banks work with us as we lead and serve our customers into the new era of digital.

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With over 238 years of rich history and industry firsts, BNY Mellon has been built upon our proven ability to evolve, lead, and drive new ideas at every turn. Today, we're approximately 50,000 employees across 35 countries with a culture that empowers you to grow, take risks, experiment and be yourself. This is what #LifeAtBNYMellon is all about.

As Engineering lead, you'll be reporting to Issuer Services Chief Information Officer, where you will be responsible for achieving our mission to build a highly scalable, reliable, and efficient Securities Issuance-as-a-Service platform business that unifies traditional and digital financial asset issuance that support multiple types of assets in both private and public markets. A true open platform that is capable of:
  • Orchestrating wide variety of digital services provided (by both internal and 3rd party collaborators) i.e. safekeeping, digital cash, CeFi and DeFi market infrastructure for primary issuance and secondary trading
  • Offering frictionless client experience throughout the whole asset issuance lifecycle
  • Empowering clients to build their businesses upon (think of platform business like Amazon, Netflix etc.)
  • Offering data-driven actionable insights to drive improvements, uncover new opportunities and inform new innovation solutions
In this role, you'll make an impact in the following ways:
  • Engineering and Platform Vision - Define the overall strategic and tactical roadmaps in close collaboration with Business, Strategy and Product Management
  • Executive Leadership - clearly communicate engineering vision and roadmap, collaborate with the rest of the organization for strategic alignment. Deliberate and thoughtful on strategic decision (build vs buy vs partner) in close collaboration with the CDIO. You're empathetic, and love to build high performance world class engineering team
  • Excellent Execution - own and deliver all aspects of the software engineering for the core platform and product vertical solutions in agile manner. You'll partner with the enterprise infrastructure and platform engineering team for optimal infrastructure-as-a-service, enabling best possible developer experience, and reliability engineering (high availability, large scale, end-to-end resiliency). You'll have to be very good at making tradeoffs between commercial outcome, agility, and engineering excellence.
  • Industry Leadership - work with clients, regulators and industry peers to lead conversations to advance our vision, advocate and influence the innovation and development of capital market infrastructure that reduce fragmentation by promoting interoperability and connectivity, resulting into instantaneous access, mobility, and utility of assets.
  • Innovative - A creative mindset to re-imagine the capital market infrastructure, applying fresh approach while being pragmatic in driving adoption
To be successful in this role, we're seeking the following:
  • Proven experience as Engineering Director leading at least 100 members of distributed engineering team
  • Proven experience in building complex and highly resilient platform involved movement of significantly large amount of volume
  • Proven experience at rapid scaling and organizing for scale which include attracting, developing and retaining talents
  • Deep understanding and proven experience in distributed systems and web3 technology stack
  • Track record of being talent magnet and attracting top talents at all levels
  • Advanced degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required
  • 15 + years of experience in systems analysis and program development with related supervisory, management and administrative experience required, at least 6-8 years of experience managing development project teams, experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus..
At BNY Mellon, our inclusive culture speaks for itself. Here's a few of our awards:
  • Fortune World's Most Admired Companies & Top 20 for Diversity and Inclusion
  • Bloomberg's Gender Equality Index (GEI)
  • Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion , Disability: IN - 100% score
  • 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators, Fast Company
  • Human Rights Campaign Foundation, 100% score Corporate Equality Index
  • CDP's Climate Change 'A List'
Our Benefits:

BNY Mellon 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 that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

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

Note: This is a pipeline requisition and does not represent any one particular job opening. By applying to this pipeline requisition, your interest will be reviewed for JOB TITLE openings based upon your background and disclosed work preference

Employer Description:

For over 230 years, the people of BNY Mellon have been at the forefront of finance, expanding the financial markets while supporting investors throughout the investment lifecycle. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments and safeguards nearly one-fifth of the world's financial assets. BNY Mellon remains one of the safest, most trusted and admired companies. Every day our employees make their mark by helping clients better manage and service their financial assets around the world. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, clients count on the people of BNY Mellon across time zones and in 35 countries and more than 100 markets. It's the collective ambition, innovative thinking and exceptionally focused client service paired with a commitment to doing what is right that continues to set us apart. Make your mark: bnymellon.com/careers.

EEO Statement:

BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities/Females/Individuals With Disabilities/Protected Veterans. Our ambition is to build the best global team - one that is representative and inclusive of the diverse talent, clients and communities we work with and serve - and to empower our team to do their best work. We support wellbeing and a balanced life, and offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and employee forums.

Client-provided location(s): Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Job ID: BNY_Mellon-43409
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Health Reimbursement Account
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA
    • HSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
  • Parental Benefits

    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Commuter Benefits Program
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Sabbatical
    • Leave of Absence
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K)
    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Performance Bonus
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Promote From Within
    • Mentor Program
    • Shadowing Opportunities
    • Access to Online Courses
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program