Director, Engineering Group Leader

Director, Engineering Group Leader

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.

Recognized as a top destination for innovators, BNY is where bold ideas meet advanced technology and exceptional talent. Together, we power the future of finance – and this is what #LifeAtBNY is all about. Join us and be part of something extraordinary.

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Director, Engineering Group Leader to join our GLOBAL PAYMENTS & TRADE team. This role is located in Pune.

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways: 

Core Responsibilities (Leadership, Delivery, Architecture)

• Own end-to-end delivery for Java/Spring portfolios, ensuring reliability, scalability, security, and regulatory/enterprise compliance.
• Define and drive the architecture roadmap (domain boundaries, microservices, eventing, APIs, data), balancing modernization with legacy interoperability.
• Lead AI integration strategy (inference services, RAG pipelines, vector search, guardrails) with observability, auditability, and performance at scale.
• Govern solution design reviews, threat modeling, performance benchmarks, production readiness; own go/no-go decisions and operational excellence metrics.

Local Talent & People Management (Pune site leadership)

• Lead and grow high-performing teams; attract, hire, onboard; build succession pipelines; foster diversity and inclusion.
• Mentor and coach managers, tech leads, and senior engineers; set expectations and career paths aligned to capability maturity.
• Drive performance management and upskilling in Java, AI integration, data engineering, and platform reliability.
• Cultivate ownership, accountability, safe experimentation, and outcome-orientation; recognize and reward impact.

Technical Skills & Experience (Required)

• Java ecosystem expert: Spring Boot/Cloud, microservices, reactive programming, API design (REST/GraphQL), concurrency, JVM performance tuning.
• AI integration: model endpoints (REST/gRPC), embeddings/vector stores, RAG, guardrails, latency/token budgeting, MLOps collaboration.
• RDBMS expertise: schema/index design, query optimization, transactions/locking, partitioning; PostgreSQL/Oracle/SQL Server; data modeling/governance.
• Middleware and cloud-native delivery: API gateways, OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS/TLS, Kafka, async patterns, containers (Docker), Kubernetes, secrets/config, observability.

Engineering Excellence & Controls

• DevSecOps leadership: CI/CD (Maven/Gradle), test automation (unit/integration/contract/performance), SAST/DAST, dependency management, SBOM, patching.
• Observability/SRE: OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Grafana, alert design, runbooks, incident response, capacity planning, performance benchmarking.
• Security and compliance: secure coding, encryption at rest/in transit, key management, data classification, access controls, audit readiness.
• Data practices: lineage, cataloging, retention, responsible data use in AI-enabled workflows.

Leadership & Behavioral Competencies

• Strategic thinking: translate business objectives into actionable architecture/roadmaps and measurable engineering outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication: executive updates, risk articulation, and decision-making with clear trade-offs.
• Proven leadership of multi-squad execution, prioritization, and portfolio governance; comfortable with ambiguity and changing priorities.
• Talent magnet and culture builder; invests in mentorship, feedback, continuous learning; bias for action and cross-team collaboration.
• 12–18+ years in software engineering with 5+ years leading managers/tech leads across multiple squads.
• Proven delivery of complex, high-availability Java platforms in regulated enterprise environments.
• Hands-on architecture leadership integrating AI services for data-intensive, low-latency systems; Bachelor’s/Master’s in CS/Engineering or equivalent.
• Experience with vector databases, feature stores, or model serving platforms.
• Background in financial services or other regulated industries.
• Familiarity with enterprise API management, secrets vaulting, and policy-as-code; exposure to multi-region HA/DR and performance engineering.
• Reliability: SLO attainment, incident rates, MTTR/MTTD.
• Delivery & Quality: lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate; test coverage, defect density, vulnerability closure times.
• Efficiency & People: cost-to-serve, capacity utilization, throughput/latency; engagement scores, retention of high performers, internal mobility/upskilling.

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following: 

Experience and Qualifications

Preferred Experience

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

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• 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.