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About the Role
The Director, Delivery Practitioner is a senior individual contributor role accountable for leading complex, end-to-end delivery engagements that enable BNY’s strategic pillars. The role provides expert delivery leadership across multiple programs or large-scale initiatives, ensuring commitments are met on time, within scope, and to required quality. The Director, Delivery Practitioner operates as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, integrating BNY’s principles by role-modelling accountability, collaboration, and integrity, and by fostering a culture of continuous improvement, transparency, and risk-aware decision-making. The role influences cross-functional teams and external partners without direct line authority, aligning complex workstreams to strategic objectives.
Responsibilities
- Lead the planning and execution of complex, multi-workstream delivery initiatives by defining scope, objectives, integrated plans, and success metrics, ensuring alignment to BNY’s strategic priorities and governance standards.
- Drive disciplined delivery governance by establishing and running forums, reporting routines, risk and issue management processes, and decision-escalation paths, ensuring transparency, informed trade-offs, and timely resolution of delivery challenges.
- Partner with senior business, Engineering, and functional leaders to translate strategic goals into executable delivery roadmaps by challenging assumptions, sequencing work, and balancing client impact, risk, and resource constraints.
- Champion consistent delivery methodologies and best practices by mentoring delivery practitioners, sharing lessons learned, and embedding continuous improvement practices, thereby improving predictability, quality, and efficiency across initiatives.
- Ensure strong risk, control, and compliance outcomes in all delivery activities by proactively identifying delivery, operational, and regulatory risks, coordinating mitigation plans, and aligning to internal control frameworks and policies.
- Build and maintain influential relationships with internal and external stakeholders by proactively engaging, communicating progress and issues clearly, and demonstrating BNY’s principles of trust, ownership, and client focus in all delivery engagements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related discipline
- Advanced certification in project/program management or delivery methodologies (e.g., PMP, PgMP, Agile/Scaled Agile) preferred
- Additional training or certification in risk management, governance, or change management beneficial
Skills
- Advanced delivery and program management expertise, including planning, governance, risk management, and cross-functional coordination for complex initiatives
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to engage senior leaders, negotiate priorities, and drive alignment without direct authority
- Strategic and analytical thinking with the ability to translate high-level objectives into structured delivery plans and to drive continuous improvement in delivery practices
Experience Level
- 12-15 years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related discipline
- Advanced certification in project/program management or delivery methodologies (e.g., PMP, PgMP, Agile/Scaled Agile) preferred
- Additional training or certification in risk management, governance, or change management beneficial
Benefits
- Highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy.
- 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.
- Generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.
About the Company
- BNY’s culture allows us to run our company better and enables employees’ growth and success.
- A leading global financial services company at the heart of the global financial system, influencing 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.
- We power the future of finance.
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- America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2025
- World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2025
- “Most Just Companies”, Just Capital and CNBC, 2025
Equal Opportunity
- BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.