Senior Director, Engineering Group Leader

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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 with significant delivery, operational, regulatory, and control responsibilities. This leader will be accountable for the overall engineering strategy, architecture, execution, quality, resiliency, and ongoing support of technology solutions supporting the program.

The successful candidate will serve as the senior engineering authority for the initiative, partnering closely with executive stakeholders, government officials, business leaders, risk and compliance teams, and third-party vendors to ensure successful program delivery. The role requires a unique combination of deep technical expertise, strong engineering leadership, regulatory awareness, and exceptional stakeholder management skills.

This position is also responsible for maintaining technical governance and accountability for third-party subcontractor dependencies, ensuring that externally delivered components align with BNY engineering standards, security requirements, architectural principles, delivery commitments, and operational readiness expectations.

Given the strategic importance and complexity of Project Crawford, this role is critical to ensuring integrated execution, strong engineering governance, regulatory compliance, and sustained delivery excellence across all program workstreams. This role is located in New York City, NY. 

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership & Delivery

• 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.

Cloud-Native Architecture & Resiliency

• Drive the design and implementation of modern cloud-native platforms and distributed systems.
• Ensure solutions are engineered for: 
  • High availability and reliability
  • Geographic fault tolerance
  • Disaster recovery readiness
  • Scalability and performance at enterprise scale
  • Near-zero recovery objectives and zero-data-loss architectures where required
• Establish engineering standards for resiliency, observability, automation, and operational excellence.

AI & Next-Generation Engineering

• Champion adoption of modern software engineering practices leveraging AI and Large Language Model (LLM) technologies.
• 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.

Government & Regulatory Engagement

• Act as a senior engineering representative with government stakeholders and regulatory bodies.
• Communicate technical concepts effectively to non-technical audiences, including government officials, business executives, and external partners.
• Ensure engineering decisions appropriately balance security, compliance, performance, and business outcomes.