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COO for Engineering / Head of Engineering Hub 

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. 

The COO for Engineering / Head of Engineering Hub is responsible for shaping and driving the strategic, operational, and organizational agenda for Engineering across BNY, leading the enterprise capabilities that enable a high-performing, modern engineering organization. The role serves as a critical partner to the Head of Engineering and leadership team, helping define direction, improve organizational effectiveness, and ensure the engineering franchise operates with clarity, discipline, and scale.

Theperson in this role is accountable for translating Engineering's priorities into execution through strong operating rhythms, governance, analytics, enablement, and cross-functional coordination. The role combines enterprise strategy, transformation leadership, and business operations accountability, ensuring Engineering is positioned to deliver against business priorities while continuously improving how it operates, develops talent, adopts technology, and drives engineering excellence.

This includes leading the Engineering Hub's broad mandate across engineering strategy, leadership enablement, analytics and insights, digitalization, AI-for-Engineering adoption, engineering learning, communications, talent and location strategy execution, and strategic technology partnerships. The role is central to building the operating model, management discipline, and enterprise connectivity needed to scale a more effective, data-driven, and forward-looking Engineering organization.

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

• Act as a trusted advisor to the Head of Engineering and leadership team, helping shape priorities, improve focus, and strengthen organizational effectiveness.
• Define and drive the strategic direction for Engineering across BNY, translating business needs into clear priorities, measurable goals, and execution plans.
• Lead the Engineering 2.0 transformation agenda, including strategic planning, governance, execution oversight, and progress reporting.
• Establish and run leadership team rhythms, including strategic planning processes, agenda-setting, decision tracking, follow-through, and management routines that improve execution discipline.
• Improve the Engineering operating model by clarifying priorities, decision rights, accountability, and cross-functional interfaces across teams.
• Oversee enterprise engineering strategy, analytics, and insight generation to improve transparency, decision-making, prioritization, and performance management.
• Advance digitalization and process improvement across Engineering to simplify workflows, improve execution, and strengthen internal effectiveness.
• Drive AI-for-Engineering adoption and other strategic enablement efforts that improve productivity, insight, and delivery outcomes across the engineering organization.
• Strengthen the Engineering Practice through guardrails, frameworks, standards, learning, communications, and community-building that promote consistency and engineering excellence.
• Lead engineering talent and location strategy execution in partnership with senior stakeholders across Engineering, People, and the broader enterprise.
• Manage strategic technology partnerships and the broader partner ecosystem to accelerate delivery, improve outcomes, and optimize value realization.
• Partner with CIOs, Engineering leaders, ESO, SPIN, AI Hub, Finance, People, Enterprise Sourcing, and other key stakeholders to align Engineering priorities with enterprise needs.
• Support the broader Engineering franchise through scalable capabilities across business management, workforce management, vendor management, engineering finance, processes and tooling, discipline learning, and organizational enablement.
• Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, transparency, innovation, and continuous improvement across the Engineering organization.

Required Qualifications:

• The successful candidate will bring significant experience leading enterprise technology strategy, engineering transformation, business operations, or chief of staff / COO-style leadership functions within a complex organization. 

• They will be equally comfortable operating at the strategic and execution levels, advising senior leaders, driving cross-functional alignment, improving management discipline, and building scalable capabilities that strengthen organizational performance.

This is a high-impact enterprise leadership role for an executive who can help shape Engineering's long-term direction, strengthen the leadership operating model, improve execution and organizational effectiveness, and build the capabilities, partnerships, and management discipline required for a modern engineering organization to perform at scale.

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

• Fortune World's Most Admired Companies & Top 20 for Diversity and Inclusion

• Bloomberg's Gender Equality Index (GEI)

• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, 100% score Corporate Equality Index

• Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion, Disability: IN - 100% score

• 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators, Fast Company

• CDP's Climate Change 'A List'

• Forbes Blockchain 50

Our Benefits:

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 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.

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.

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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.

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.