Senior Vice President, Full-Stack Engineer

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Vice President, Full-Stack Engineer to join our team. This is located in Wrocław, Poland.

Role Overview

BNY is seeking a Senior Vice President, Software Engineering to lead high-impact teams. This role encompasses end-to-end delivery ownership, elevating engineering standards, nurturing talent, and collaborating closely with product and business stakeholders. The aim is to create secure, resilient, and scalable systems. This opportunity is ideal for a hands-on leader who excels in agile environments and transforms complex business challenges into elegant, dependable solutions.

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

· Lead and develop inclusive, high performing engineering teams; set clear objectives, coach talent, and build succession plans while representing engineering in program reviews and governance forums.

· Own end to end delivery of mission critical software—from requirements and architecture to implementation, testing, deployment, observability, and reliability—while ensuring compliance and operational excellence.

· Raise engineering excellence and resilience: enforce best practices and automation across code, testing, microservices/APIs, performance, and infrastructure; champion secure by design (secure coding, logging/monitoring, incident playbooks, disaster recovery).

· Partner with product, design, and ops to turn outcomes into measurable technical plans, steer architecture modernization, integrations —aligned to BNY’s principles and pillars.

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

· Proven leadership of software engineering teams building distributed systems and microservices in agile environments such as Scrum or Kanban.

· Hands-on AI development using modern tools and IDEs (e.g., Windsurf) and familiarity with integrating AI into products.

· Strong expertise in Java (preferably Spring) and architectural patterns for scalable, observable, and testable systems.

· Proficiency in modern engineering practices including CI/CD (e.g., GitLab), automated testing (JUnit/Spock), code reviews, quality focused test-driven development, and DevOps culture.

· Hands-on experience with containers (Docker) and private cloud infrastructure, alongside familiarity with service telemetry tools (e.g., Splunk, AppDynamics).

· Track record of talent development including hiring, coaching, performance management, and building collaborative, learning-focused teams.

· Dedication to understanding the business domain and translating product strategy into architecture and delivery plans.

Nice to Have

· Corporate Actions domain experience strongly preferred.

· Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and Angular for full-stack development contexts.

· Expertise in Spring Framework, software architecture, and API/platform design.

· Background in financial services, risk and controls, and regulated environments.

How We Work

· Agile (Scrum/Kanban) tailored by teams for flow and outcomes; full product lifecycle ownership (build, test, deploy, monitor, iterate); growth mindset with continuous learning and knowledge sharing.

· Code: Java 17/21 (Spring, Maven), Groovy, JavaScript/TypeScript (Angular)

· Testing: JUnit, Spock

· Architecture: Microservices

· Deployment: Private cloud (VMs/containers)

· Tooling: GitLab (git and CI/CD), IntelliJ, Windsurf, Docker, Splunk, AppDynamics