Senior Vice President, Solution Architect

Responsible for the delivery of high-quality architectural solutions, while ensuring compliance with company policies.

Strategize and contribute to enterprise level technological initiatives on architectures, patterns and standards.

Integrate architecture with SDLC: Embed architects and patterns into developer workflows (epics, code reviews, pipelines, automated gates) to enable “governance by design” and reduce late-stage rework.

Define and implement architecture and design in accordance with architecture principles. Adheres to established architecture methodologies and standards and ensures compliance with company policy.

Identify organization-wide initiatives and make recommendations for the use of technology. Works closely with senior management to educate and to articulate resource requirements necessary to promote architecture goals.

Perform enterprise planning and designing solutions for emerging business and complex technology environments. Identifies and recommends ways to drive more value out of the company's technology assets.

Design stable and flexible high-performance solutions, maximizing reuse and avoiding redundancy. Works with other stakeholders in optimizing architecture solutions. Contribute to the achievement of multiple teams' objectives

Champion AI-assisted design: Evaluate and pilot AI-driven tools for pattern recommendation, design validation, risk identification, and documentation generation; define safe, compliant usage patterns and measurable benefits.

Oversee architecture activities of the organization to assure the strategic goals of the organization are met. Work toward architecture and design solutions. Influence strategic roadmaps: Consult on platform and product strategies, ensuring architectural choices align with business priorities, operational resilience, and cost optimization.

Foster a culture of excellence: Model BNY principles—Be Client Obsessed, Spark Progress, Own It, Stay Curious, and Thrive Together—through collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement.

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline, or equivalent work experience required. Advanced degree preferred.

10-12 years of experience in technology and architecture roles required; experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus. Expertise in modern architecture domains: cloud-native (AWS/Azure/GCP), microservices, APIs, event-driven designs, data platforms, security architecture, and reliability engineering (SRE).

Proven experience making architecture executable: IaC (e.g., Terraform), policy-as-code (e.g., OPA), CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions/Jenkins/Azure DevOps), automated quality/security gates, and reference implementations.

Leadership and influencing skills 

Ability to make hard and fast decisions

Problem solving

Passion for changing status quo and driving out-of-the-box ideas

Non-hierarchical, transparent, trusting, trustworthy

Eagerness to ‘roll up the sleeves’ in execution and learning; pushes the team to do the same

Able to communicate vision and get others on board

Exposure to AI/ML in engineering workflows: understanding of GenAI-assisted design, coding assistants, architectural validation, and responsible AI considerations (model risk, data protection, auditability).

Excellent communication and influence: able to translate complex concepts for diverse audiences, build consensus, and drive adoption across platforms and practices.