Vice President, Technical Product Specialist and App Delivery II - BNY Mellon

Overview

Vice President, Technical Product Specialist & App Delivery II

At BNY, our culture empowers you to grow and succeed. As a leading global financial services company at the center of the world’s financial system we touch nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day around the globe, our 50,000+ employees bring the power of their perspective to the table to create solutions with our clients that benefit businesses, communities and people everywhere.    

We continue to be a leader in the industry, awarded as a top home for innovators and for creating an inclusive workplace. Through our unique ideas and talents, together we help make money work for the world. This is what #LifeAtBNY is all about.

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President, Technical Product Specialist & Application Delivery II to join our Execution Services-Markets Engineering team. This role is located in Pittsburgh, PA – Hybrid

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

• Deliver new functionality to allow the FX Product team to provide improved solutions to our clients, and to our FX Sales/Trading users
• Deliver new automated technology solutions to improve the scalability of the FX post trade processing platforms and increase the level of STP (straight through processing for FX Trading & Operations teams
• Enhance, transform, and simplify the FX Post Trade technology platform
• Take ownership of deliverables from analysis, design, build and test, through L3 production support.
• Become an active participant in technical discussions across the wider FX technology team to define and agree the future strategic architecture
• Be able to document requirements in Jira and Confluence.

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

• Significant experience of working on a 3rd party vendor platform Wall Street Systems (plus)
• Hands on experience of Databases (inc. SQL), Middleware solutions (For example: MQ, Kafka or Rest) and Systems Integration testing.
• Hands-on experience of vendor systems and knowledge of the FX trade life cycle
• Self-starter who can work directly with users to gather requirements and implement solutions, working with internal development teams and a 3rd party platform vendor
• Strong analysis and problem-solving skills.
• An effective communicator, and the ability to converse effectively with non-technical users
• Experience of working in software development or change team environment and Agile methodology.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required, advanced degree is preferred.
• 8-10 years of experience in a systems SCM environment, experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus.

Acts as Technical Product Specialist & Application delivery, responsible for defining the overall technical direction of the FX post trade operating environment.  Defines business & functional specifications, designs and implements solutions in support of our business strategies. Standardizes the use of tools, technology and/or business expertise in relationship to agile methodologies. Assists in defining standards, processes, and procedures for the use of technology within the department. Defines and approves the process for metrics collection and analysis across all applications. Analyses data and produces progress reports for strategic projects. 

Makes recommendations to improve efficiencies and outcomes. Interacts directly with clients and senior management regarding project activities, production stability, SLAs, and status of upgrades on the application (vendor/in-house). Responsible for defining the installation and upgrade strategy for vendor products and identifying obstacles in making vendor software products fully operational within BNY environment. Reviews customizations made to core product to ensure impact on future portability. Contributes to the achievement of Software Configuration/Release Management objectives.

At BNY, our culture speaks for itself. Here’s a few of our awards: 

• America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2024
• World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2024
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Corporate Equality Index, 100% score, 2023-2024
• Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion, Disability: IN – 100% score, 2023-2024
• “Most Just Companies”, Just Capital and CNBC, 2024
• Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, Top performing company for Sustainability, 2024
• Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index (GEI), 2023

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.

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.