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Senior Vice President - Mainframe Infrastructure Engineer
Overview
BNY is seeking an experienced Senior Vice President, Infrastructure Engineer to join our Mainframe Services organization based in New York, NY or Jersey City, NJ. This role is responsible for the engineering, support, stability, resiliency, and continuous improvement of a large-scale enterprise mainframe environment that supports critical business services across the firm.
The successful candidate will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for maintaining highly available production systems, driving operational excellence, supporting modernization initiatives, and ensuring the reliability of one of the industry's most critical computing platforms.
This position requires deep technical expertise, strong operational leadership, and the ability to work across engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, application support, and infrastructure teams.
Primary Responsibilities
Infrastructure Engineering & Platform Support

• Provide senior-level support and engineering expertise for IBM Mainframe infrastructure and associated technologies.
• Maintain platform stability, availability, performance, and resiliency across production and non-production environments.
• Support system software upgrades, maintenance activities, platform enhancements, and lifecycle management initiatives.
• Perform complex troubleshooting and root cause analysis for infrastructure and platform-related issues.
• Lead recovery efforts during critical incidents and major outage situations.
• Develop and maintain operational procedures, technical documentation, and support standards.

Operational Excellence

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on reliability, efficiency, automation, and risk reduction.
• Support capacity planning, performance tuning, and infrastructure optimization activities.
• Monitor platform health and proactively identify operational risks.
• Partner with service management teams to improve incident, problem, and change management processes.
• Ensure operational readiness for new technologies and platform enhancements.

Technology Strategy & Modernization

• Support long-term technology strategies focused on resiliency, modernization, automation, and operational efficiency.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry best practices.
• Participate in infrastructure transformation initiatives and platform optimization efforts.
• Identify opportunities to improve automation, monitoring, and engineering processes.

Risk & Control Management

• Ensure compliance with enterprise risk management standards and technology controls.
• Support audit activities, regulatory examinations, and control reviews.
• Participate in disaster recovery testing and resiliency exercises.
• Maintain adherence to cybersecurity and operational risk requirements.

Technical Leadership

• Mentor and develop junior and mid-level engineers.
• Provide technical leadership across cross-functional initiatives.
• Partner with senior technology leaders on strategic priorities and operational improvements.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for mainframe infrastructure technologies.

Required Qualifications
Experience

• 12+ years of infrastructure engineering experience within large enterprise environments.
• 8+ years of hands-on IBM Mainframe engineering and support experience.
• Demonstrated experience supporting mission-critical production platforms operating in a 24x7 environment.
• Experience managing complex technical incidents and operational recovery events.
• Experience working within highly regulated financial services or similarly complex industries preferred.

Technical Expertise
Strong experience with several of the following:

• IBM z/OS
• IBM Mainframe Hardware
• JES2 / JES3
• SMP/E
• RACF
• JCL
• REXX
• Sysplex technologies
• Capacity and performance management
• Disaster recovery and resiliency solutions
• Operational automation
• Monitoring and observability tools
• ITIL-based operational processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise mainframe environments.
• Experience with infrastructure modernization initiatives.
• Exposure to DevOps, automation, and platform engineering concepts.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity, resiliency, and operational risk frameworks.
• Experience leading enterprise-wide infrastructure projects.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline required.
• Master's degree preferred.
• Industry certifications are a plus.

Leadership Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Proven ability to influence across technical and business teams.
• Strong focus on operational excellence and customer outcomes.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated commitment to risk management and control discipline.

At BNY, our culture speaks for itself, check out the latest BNY news at:
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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.
About Us
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.
About the Team
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.