IT & Software

Lead Full-Stack Engineer

The Bank of New York Mellon

Remote · Nationwide · United Kingdom

Overview

In this SVP Full Stack Engineer role, you lead high‑impact engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable systems end‑to‑end. You drive architecture, standards, and talent development in an agile setting, partnering with product and business stakeholders to turn outcomes into technical plans. You will champion secure design, observability, and reliable deployments while elevating engineering excellence. This is a hands‑on leadership role at the heart of a global financial services firm leveraging AI and modern tech to transform solutions.

Pay / Benefits
  • competitive compensation
  • wellbeing programs
  • flexible global resources
  • focus on health
  • paid volunteer time
  • generous paid leaves
Responsibilities
  • Lead and develop inclusive, high performing engineering teams with clear objectives and succession planning
  • Own end‑to‑end delivery of mission critical software from requirements to deployment, observability, and reliability
  • Raise engineering excellence through automation, secure coding, logging/monitoring, incident playbooks, and disaster recovery
  • Collaborate with product, design, and operations to translate outcomes into technical plans and steer architecture modernization and integrations
Key requirements
  • Proven leadership of software engineering teams delivering distributed systems and microservices in agile environments (Scrum/Kanban)
  • Hands‑on AI development using modern tools and integrating AI into products
  • Strong Java experience (preferably Spring) and scalable, observable architectures
  • Proficiency in CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews, TDD, and DevOps culture
  • Hands‑on container tech (Docker) and private cloud, plus experience with telemetry tools (Splunk, AppDynamics)
  • Talent development: hiring, coaching, performance management, and building collaborative teams
  • Ability to translate business domain into architecture and delivery plans
  • leadership and coaching
  • cross‑functional collaboration
  • continuous learning
  • Java 17/21 (Spring, Maven)
  • Groovy
  • JavaScript/TypeScript (Angular)

Reference: WJ-747_30947847

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