Vice President, Senior Jira Developer / Architect

VICE PRESIDENT, SENIOR JIRA DEVELOPER / ARCHITECT

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.

We're seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Jira Developer / Architect to join our Shared Services Engineering team. This role is located in Pittsburgh, PA and Lake Mary, FL (Greater Orlando area), and will work a Hybrid schedule (3 days per week in-office required).  Candidate must reside within a commutable distance to this work location, as we are unable to accommodate 100% virtual work arrangements.

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

• Acts as SCM subject matter expert, responsible for the definition and implementation of the technical methodology of the SCM department

• Defines SCM plans and scripts/programs

• Analyses and documents systems requirements for the most complex environments

• Recommends software design based on requirements

• Analyses and monitors the effectiveness of the use of technology in SCM processes

• Structures and monitors technical activities based upon approved project methodologies

• Collects and analyses project data and produces progress reports

• Makes recommendations to improve efficiencies and outcomes

• Responsible for installation and making vendor software products fully operational within BNY Mellon environment

• Reviews customizations made to core product to ensure impact on future portability

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

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required, advanced degree is preferred

• 8-10 years of experience in a systems SCM environment

• Demonstrable expertise with Jira APIs, webhooks and extensive hands-on coding experience using Jira plug-ins such as Sprint Runner, JSU Automation suite for Jira 'Elements Connect', 'Advanced Roadmap' etc.

• Experience managing all aspects of infrastructure for installing, configuring and/or upgrading Jira, including other Jira products (Jira Service Desk/Jira Service Management)

• Strong expertise on Linux and Shell scripting

• Ability to manage CI/CD pipelines setup, JIRA, and JIRA/Confluence to complete tasks including version control, defect tracking and should be able to do migrations using project configurator/configuration manager

• Ability to independently drive application performance levels testing strategy with experience of test-driven development, and continuous monitoring using tools like AppDynamics, Splunk, Grafana, etc.

• Prior Java and Groovy development background highly preferred

• Experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus

• 5 years of progressively responsible experience including, but not limited to: Designing/building JIRA features and workflows, including related screen schemes, field configurators etc. for complex and high impact projects in a shorter duration

• Demonstrated expertise conducting design sessions and presenting end-state Jira workflows to the user community based on user requirements for workflows/configuration

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

• America's Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2024
• World's Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2024
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Corporate Equality Index, 100% score, 2023-2024 
• Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion, Disability: IN - 100% score, 2023-2024
• "Most Just Companies", Just Capital and CNBC, 2024
• Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, Top performing company for Sustainability, 2024
• Bloomberg's Gender Equality Index (GEI), 2023

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 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.