Job DescriptionWe're seeking a future team member for the role of
Senior Director, Data/AI Engineering Manager to join our team. This role is located in
New York and will lead a strategic engineering function supporting enterprise and business priorities through modern data, AI, and platform capabilities.
This leader will operate at the intersection of
business, data, AI, technology, architecture, risk, governance, and transformation. They will be expected to strengthen engineering and solutioning capabilities, drive execution excellence, and identify opportunities to improve data accessibility, context management, interoperability, controls, and business value through
AI-enabled platforms, knowledge graph capabilities, intelligent automation, and AI-led engineering practices.
A core part of this role will be shaping and scaling the firm's
AI context layer, including
knowledge graph, semantic, and metadata-driven capabilities that improve how data, systems, processes, and business concepts are connected, understood, governed, and used across the organization. This leader will also drive
AI-led engineering and solutioning, enabling teams to modernize delivery, accelerate development, improve design quality, and unlock new business capabilities through practical application of AI.
This is an opportunity to lead a strategically important function at BNY, helping shape the future of
data and AI engineering while building high-performing teams and delivering measurable impact at scale. This role is located in New York City, NY.
In this role, you'll make an impact in the following ways:
Lead a critical
Data/AI Engineering function, setting direction for engineering strategy, solution delivery, platform enablement, data interoperability, AI adoption, and organizational performance.
Define and execute the strategic vision for the function, aligning
data and AI engineering priorities with business goals, architectural direction, regulatory expectations, risk requirements, and long-term transformation objectives.
Build and lead high-performing teams across a large-scale organization, ensuring strong organizational design, leadership capability, workforce planning, and alignment to enterprise priorities.
Drive the design and implementation of scalable, resilient, and well-controlled
data and AI engineering platforms that improve data usability, discoverability, accessibility, and trust across critical business domains.
Lead development of the
AI context layer, including
knowledge graph, ontology, semantic modeling, metadata, lineage, and contextual data frameworks that connect enterprise data, business concepts, and workflows to improve intelligence, reuse, and decision support.
Establish engineering patterns and architectural standards for integrating structured and unstructured data, metadata, semantic relationships, and contextual services into enterprise AI and data solutions.
Partner across Business, Technology, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Architecture, and other stakeholder groups to align investments, priorities, and execution plans with strategic data and AI objectives.
Advance
AI-led engineering and solutioning by identifying and scaling practical use cases for AI across software development, architecture, workflow orchestration, intelligent automation, solution design, and platform productivity.
Drive modernization of engineering practices through automation, reusable frameworks, platform thinking, and AI-assisted delivery approaches that improve speed, quality, resiliency, and operating leverage.
Lead the design and evolution of
data and AI governance-aligned engineering capabilities, ensuring strong controls around context management, data usage, explainability, traceability, security, and operational oversight.
Translate emerging AI and data engineering opportunities into executable roadmaps, target-state architectures, and prioritized investments that deliver measurable business value.
Oversee delivery of strategic programs across the function, ensuring strong execution discipline, governance routines, issue remediation, dependency management, performance tracking, and continuous improvement.
Lead risk, control, and operational oversight across the function, ensuring strong governance, resiliency, regulatory awareness, and disciplined execution in a highly controlled environment.
Manage budgets, resource allocation, and investment priorities in support of strategic plans and sustainable business performance.
Recruit, develop, and retain strong talent while fostering an inclusive, accountable, and high-performance culture grounded in collaboration, curiosity, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Represent the organization in senior leadership forums, translating complex
data, AI, engineering, and transformation priorities into clear business value, strategic tradeoffs, and actionable outcomes.
Build trusted relationships with internal stakeholders and senior leaders, serving as a strategic partner who can navigate complexity, solve problems, and drive alignment across a matrixed organization.
To be successful in this role, we're seeking the following:
Bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience is required; advanced degree preferred.
Significant experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry, with strong exposure to
data engineering, AI/ML platforms, enterprise architecture, metadata, governance, or digital transformation.
Extensive experience in a senior leadership role leading large-scale
data, AI, engineering, platform, or solution delivery functions in complex enterprise environments.
Proven ability to lead large, matrixed organizations, including demonstrated success in people leadership, organizational design, and leadership development.
Strong track record of delivering transformation and modernization initiatives at scale, including platform engineering, process redesign, operating model improvement, automation, and control adoption.
Demonstrated experience building and scaling
enterprise data and AI capabilities, including modern data platforms, contextual data services, metadata-driven solutions, or knowledge-centered architectures.
Experience with
AI context layer concepts, such as
knowledge graphs, semantic models, ontologies, metadata frameworks, lineage, graph-based relationships, or contextual retrieval patterns, and how they can be applied to enterprise business and technology use cases.
Demonstrated experience applying
AI-enabled capabilities to improve engineering productivity, solution quality, workflow efficiency, interoperability, decision-making, or business outcomes.
Deep understanding of operational risk, controls, governance, and regulatory expectations in highly regulated environments.
Strong business and stakeholder leadership skills, with the ability to influence across business, technology, architecture, risk, compliance, operations, and senior leadership teams.
Experience managing budgets, workforce planning, and strategic investment prioritization.
Proven ability to establish and maintain trusted business partnerships across a matrixed organization.
Strong judgment, problem-solving capability, and execution discipline in a dynamic environment with evolving priorities.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience leading enterprise or domain-level
data engineering programs, including data pipelines, data platforms, metadata, lineage, semantic services, and stewardship-aligned engineering models.
Strong understanding of the role of
contextual data architecture in supporting AI, analytics, operations, controls, search, decision support, and client outcomes.
Experience with
knowledge graph, graph-based data modeling, semantic technologies, or entity relationship frameworks in enterprise-scale environments.
Familiarity with
AI solution architecture, including retrieval patterns, contextual grounding, model integration, workflow orchestration, and responsible AI implementation considerations.
Experience leading organizations through operating model transformation in support of growth, resiliency, scalability, and stronger governance.
Familiarity with modern data platforms, API-enabled architecture, cloud-based engineering patterns, governance tooling, and AI-enabled developer productivity practices.
Passion for building an
AI-first, data-informed, engineering-led, and continuously improving organization.
About UsAt 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 TeamAt 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.
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