About the role
What will you do at BNY?
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 Senior Vice President,
Principal Full Stack Engineer to join our Performance Product Engineering team.
This role is located in Boston, MA.
In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:
Note on scope: Our platform operating model separates organizational leadership
from technical leadership by design. Managers focus on people, delivery
execution, and team effectiveness. This role provides leadership for the
technical system, shaping architecture, defining standards, and setting
direction across multiple teams and platforms. The two leadership functions work
in close partnership, each bringing a distinct and complementary form of
accountability. If you are the person that a large engineering organization
consistently relies on to make critical architectural decisions, and you're
looking for a role where that influence is formally recognized, this opportunity
is for you.
This is the senior technical leadership role for Performance Product
Engineering, an organization of ~100 engineers building the performance
measurement and attribution calculation platform underneath our wealth
management and asset servicing products. You will operate as the solution
architect for the organization: setting technical direction across teams, owning
the cross-cutting design decisions that no single team can make alone, and
partnering directly with the Director of Engineering as the org's principal
technical voice. You will write code on the hardest parts of the system. As your
scope expands, the focus shifts from individual execution to organizational
outcomes. Your success will be measured by the results the entire organization
achieves through your influence, direction, and technical leadership.
* Own the architecture end to end. Define and evolve the target-state design
for the calculation platform: data model, computation engine, orchestration,
APIs, and the interfaces our client-facing applications depend on. Make the
build/buy/refactor calls and defend them in writing.
* Work across every team in the org. Lead cross-team design reviews, establish
the patterns teams build against, and personally take on the integration
problems that fall between teams and would otherwise go unowned.
* Be the technical partner to leadership. Sit with the Director of Engineering
and product leadership before roadmap commitments are made, not after.
Translate business intent into a technical strategy, and translate technical
constraints into terms leadership can act on.
* Prototype and prove out new technology. We are actively investing in AI and
ML, both in the product surface and in how we build. You will lead evaluation
and adoption: what's real, what's hype, what we pilot, and what we take to
production.
* Raise the engineering bar. Mentor senior engineers and tech leads. Set
standards for design documentation, testing, performance, and correctness in
a domain where a wrong number is a client-reportable event.
To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:
* 10+ years building and operating production software, with real depth on at
least one side of the stack and genuine credibility on the other.
* Demonstrated architectural ownership of a system used by multiple teams. You
have defined the design others built against, and lived with the
consequences.
* Strong background in data-intensive, distributed, or high-throughput systems.
Correctness and performance both matter here at scale.
* A track record of technical influence without formal authority. You have
changed the direction of an organization through a design document, a
prototype, or a well-argued review.
* Comfort with ambiguity and legacy. Much of this work is evolving a system
that is already running and cannot stop running.
* Financial services, capital markets, or investment performance/attribution
domain experience is a strong plus, not a requirement. We can help you build
domain expertise. What matters most is the judgment and leadership you bring
to the role.
Where this role can lead: This is a growing space with an expanding scope. For
those who want to deepen their impact as individual contributors, it offers
broader architectural ownership across adjacent platforms and a path toward our
most senior technical roles. For those interested in management, there is an
opportunity to build and lead a team in the areas you've already helped shape.
Several of our current leaders followed that path. Management is an option, not
an expectation, and remaining an individual contributor is not a constraint. In
either case, the scope, impact, and influence of the role continue to expand.
Technology: Python and modern JVM languages. Polars and columnar compute.
Snowflake and cloud data platforms. Azure and Kubernetes. Workflow
orchestration. Angular/TypeScript front ends. CI/CD and infrastructure as code.
Applied AI and LLM tooling. Exploring Rust. We care more about how you reason
about systems than about which of these you have used.
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.
At BNY, our culture speaks for itself, check out the latest BNY news at BNY
Newsroom [https://www.bny.com/corporate/global/en/about-us/newsroom.html] & BNY
LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/bnyglobal/posts/? feedView=all]
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.
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