Vice President, Full-Stack Engineer II

Vice President, Full-Stack Engineer II

Bring your ideas. Make history.

BNY Mellon offers an exciting array of future-forward careers at the intersection of business, finance, and technology. We are one of the world's top asset management and banking firms that manages trillions of dollars in assets, custody and/or administration.

Known as the "bank of banks" - 97% of the world's top banks work with us as we lead and serve our customers into the new era of digital. With over 240 years of rich history and industry firsts, BNY Mellon has been built upon our proven ability to evolve, lead, and drive new ideas at every turn. Today, we're approximately 50,000 employees across 35 countries with a culture that empowers you to grow, take risks, experiment and be yourself. This is what #LifeAtBNYMellon is all about.

We're seeking a future team member in the role of Vice President, Full-Stack Engineer II to join our Securities Finance Technology team. This role is located in Pittsburgh, PA - HYBRID.

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

• Consults with internal business groups to provide appropriate application software development services or technical support. May also be responsible for requirements gathering and BRD/SRD preparation.

• Build and develop solutions to meet our business needs by leveraging the latest technologies and best software engineering practices.

• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing systems. Ensure software is updated with latest features.
  
  Participate in deployment process following all change controls.
  
  Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements in existing systems and platforms. Provide recommendations for continuous improvement.

• Demonstrate teamwork. Leverage existing products/functionality and promote reuse.
  
  Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices. Collaborate closely with all the other members of the team to take shared responsibility for the overall efforts that the team has committed to.

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

• The job holder should have strong hands-on experience in technical design, development, implementation, and documentation of cross-functional, multi-platform application systems.

• Must have thorough and demonstrable knowledge on below skills:

Core Java (and related tools such as Visio Studio/IntelliJ, etc), Core Spring Framework, RScript/Python, webservices, Linux commands and scripting, relational databases, GIT, frontend framework such as Angular, etc.

• Additional requirements include intermediate understanding of security principles, and architecture design principles.
  
  Programming well-designed, testable, efficient code. Analyze, design and develop tests and test-automation suites.

• Contributes to the achievement of area objectives.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required. 

• 7-9 years of experience in software development required; experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus.

• Familiarity with Kafka, AWS (S3), etc.

Consults with internal business groups to provide appropriate application software development services or technical support. Provides application software development services or technical support in more complex situations.

May also be responsible for requirements gathering and BRD/SRD preparation. Has thorough knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle. Conducts reviews of the test Plan and test Data. May allocate/ coordinate work within a team/project.

The job holder leads the technical design, development and documentation of cross-functional, multi-platform application systems.

They should analyze, define and document requirements for data, workflow, and logical processes and interfaces with other systems.

They should also ensures that expected application performance levels are achieved by coordinating, coding, testing, implementation and documentation. Must have thorough and demonstrative knowledge on or both the user-side frontend of a website, as well as the backend, server-side that powers the user-side. Additional requirements include intermediate understanding of security principles, relational databases and architecture design principles.

Programming well-designed, testable, efficient code. Analyze, design and develop tests and test-automation suites. Develop flowcharts, layouts and documentation to satisfy requirements and solutions.

Maintain software functionality and currency (technical debt and gain). Actively participate in code reviews. Integrate software components into a fully functional software system.

Apply security and privacy principles. Execute full lifecycle software development. Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures.

Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing systems. Ensure software is updated with latest features.

Participate in deployment process following all change controls.

Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements in existing systems and platforms. Provide recommendations for continuous improvement.

Active learning engagement. Complete all required mandatory training / policy awareness curricula on time.

Use learning tools such as Pluralsight to complete both recommended and aspirational targets set in personal development plans. Demonstrate team work. Leverage existing products/functionality and promote reuse.

Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices. Collaborate closely with all the other members of the team to take shared responsibility for the overall efforts that the team has committed to. Collaborate cross-functionally with data engineers, business users, project managers and other engineers to achieve elegant solutions.

Utilize local meetups to gain and share knowledge. Compiles documentation written by more senior developers of all procedures used in system.

Acts as mentor to junior level engineers.

Prior experience with using a specific application development toolkit and knowledge of front end and backend development coding languages such as C#, Java, HTML, NodeJS, CSS, JSON, Angular, JavaScript. Must also have proficiency in Core Spring, ANSI, Docker.

Communications and organization skills; team work skills. N/A. Contributes to the achievement of area objectives.

Job holder must have understanding interdependencies and business impact of future IT plans. They must have prior lead experience selecting and implementing vendor-specific methodologies and prior consulting experience with structured methodologies. Job holder must have broad experience with multi-platform development tools and toolkits.

At BNY Mellon, 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

• Disability: IN - 100% score. 

• 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators, Fast Company

• CDP's Climate Change 'A List'

Our Benefits:

BNY Mellon 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 that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

BNY Mellon 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.