Senior Vice President, Senior Software Engineering, Developer

Overview

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Vice President, Senior Software Engineering, Developer Experience to join our Developer Experience (Dev Ex) team. This role is located in London.

• Lead, mentor, and manage a high-performing Build Engineering team, setting clear technical direction and career growth paths.
• Oversee the architecture and implementation of BNY’s central build automation platform, ensuring high availability, reliability, and security.
• Create developer-friendly templates, quick start guides, and troubleshooting tools to help feature teams quickly create performant, transparent, and compliant build automation.
• Optimize developer workflows by streamlining build orchestration, dependency management, and CI/CD pipelines to accelerate software delivery while reducing friction.
• Drive observability and resilience by integrating telemetry, analytics, and automated remediation into build systems to proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks and failures.
• Champion secure software supply chain practices, artifact management standards, and consistent build strategies across the enterprise.
• Partner closely with Product Management, SRE, Security, and application engineering teams to ensure alignment with developer needs and organizational priorities.
• Foster innovation by evaluating and adopting emerging technologies, including AI-assisted build optimization and intelligent failure diagnosis.
• Define and track key metrics such as build success rate, duration, cost efficiency, adoption rates, and developer satisfaction to continuously improve the platform.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required; advanced degree preferred
• Expert-level competency in one or more modern programming languages (e.g., Java, Go, JavaScript, Python).
• Proven expertise with modern build automation and CI/CD tools (e.g., Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI/CD, Jenkins, Bazel, Gradle, Maven).
• Strong technical leadership skills with the ability to set architectural direction and drive complex initiatives across teams.
• Experience delivering large-scale, mission-critical developer platforms in an enterprise or high-scale environment.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, able to engage effectively with engineers, architects, and executives.

• Background in Developer Experience (Dev Ex), Platform Engineering, or Build/Release Engineering.
• Experience with artifact repositories (e.g., Artifactory, Nexus) and secure software supply chain practices.
• Knowledge of observability systems, telemetry frameworks, and performance optimization for build pipelines.
• Exposure to AI/ML-driven build acceleration and failure prediction tooling.
• Prior hands-on software development experience building customer-facing features.