Director, Forward Deployed Engineer
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Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required; advanced degree is beneficial.
- 14+ years of software development and technical leadership experience, including direct accountability for production systems and cross-functional delivery programs; experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus.
- Strong foundational understanding of modern AI and agentic application patterns, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic search, and agent-based system design.
- Hands-on experience building backend services, APIs, and production systems.
- Experience working across architecture, data, and platform concerns rather than only within a narrow layer.
Preferred Qualifications
- Track record of building or scaling a delivery capability (e.g., solutions engineering, forward deployment, platform engineering) within a large enterprise or regulated environment.
- Demonstrated experience delivering AI, data, or workflow-heavy solutions at scale in regulated environments, with accountability for production outcomes.
- Strong systems-thinking and architecture judgment across services, data, and infrastructure; able to evaluate and influence technology choices at a divisional level.
- Experience defining and operating delivery standards, playbooks, or center-of-excellence functions.
- Experience balancing speed with governance, security, and operational rigor across a team or portfolio.
- Deep familiarity with reusable platform patterns, internal developer platforms, and productized infrastructure.
Technical Skills
- Strong software engineering skills in one or more of: Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python.
- Experience with APIs, service integration, and secure-by-default engineering practices.
- Ability to work across data, AI, workflow, and platform layers as needed.
- Comfort using modern AI tooling pragmatically without confusing prototypes for production systems.
- Familiarity with application frameworks and containerization.
Non-Technical Skills
- Exceptional written and verbal communication; able to advise and influence senior business and technology executives.
- Strong strategic and product judgment: knows which opportunities are worth pursuing and which are not.
- Proven ability to lead across matrixed organizations and build alignment without formal authority.
- Structured tradeoff thinking at portfolio scale, balancing risk, speed, and long-term platform health.
- Bias toward action with disciplined follow-through and strong artifact discipline.
People Leadership
Leads, grows, and retains a team of senior engineers; sets technical standards and delivery culture for the FDE function.
Develops talent pipelines and mentors engineers toward greater technical and delivery autonomy.
Influences technology implementation and forward-deployed delivery standards across large IT divisions.
About Company
At BNY, our culture speaks for itself, check out the latest BNY news at BNY Newsroom & BNY LinkedIn
Here’s a few of our recent awards:
America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2025
World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2025
“Most Just Companies”, Just Capital and CNBC, 2025
Our Benefits and Rewards:
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.
BNY assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The expected base salary for this position when employment commences can be found in the Job Info section at the bottom of the posting.
Base salary offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Base salary is only part of the total rewards package, which may include eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive award. Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan as well as participate in Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and the employee’s eligible dependents. Eligible employees also may receive other benefits (including various paid time off benefits, such as vacation and sick time), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.
If hired, the employee will be in an “at will” position and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payments or compensation programs) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.
Company
At BNY, our culture allows us to run our company better and enables employees’ growth and success. As a leading global financial services company at the heart of the global financial system, we influence nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day, our teams harness cutting-edge AI and breakthrough technologies to collaborate with clients, driving transformative solutions that redefine industries and uplift communities worldwide.
About BNY
A global financial services platform at the heart of the world's capital markets.
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