Director, Delivery Practitioner

BNY Mellon

$125K — $150K *
Enterprise Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related discipline.
  • Advanced certification in project/program management (e.g., PMP, PgMP, Agile/Scaled Agile) preferred.
  • 12-15 years of relevant experience.
  • Training or certification in risk management, governance, or change management is beneficial.
  • Strong stakeholder management and influencing capabilities, especially with senior leaders.

Responsibilities

  • Lead complex delivery initiatives by defining scope, objectives, and success metrics.
  • Establish and manage delivery governance processes for transparency and issue resolution.
  • Translate strategic goals into actionable delivery roadmaps in collaboration with senior leaders.
  • Champion delivery methodologies and mentor practitioners to enhance efficiency and quality.
  • Proactively identify and mitigate delivery risks and ensure compliance with internal controls.
  • Build influential relationships with stakeholders through clear communication and client focus.

Benefits

  • Highly competitive compensation and benefits packages.
  • Access to flexible global resources for personal and professional development.
  • Focus on health and personal resilience programs.
  • Generous paid leaves including paid volunteer time.
  • Participation in a 401(k) plan and company-sponsored health insurance plans.
Full Job Description
Job Description

We're seeking a future team member for the role of Director, Delivery Practitioner to join our Enterprise Transformation team. This role is located in New York, NY or Pittsburgh, PA or Lake Mary, FL.

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

To be successful in this role, we're seeking the following:
  • 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.
  • Typically 12-15 years of experience.
  • Additional training or certification in risk management, governance, or change management is beneficial.
  • Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to engage senior leaders, negotiate priorities, and drive alignment without direct authority.


About the Team

At BNY, our culture speaks for itself, check out the latest BNY news at BNY Newsroom & BNY LinkedIn

Here's a few of our recent awards:
  • America's Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2025
  • World's Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2025
  • "Most Just Companies", Just Capital and CNBC, 2025

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 assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The expected base salary for this position when employment commences can be found in the Job Info section at the bottom of the posting.

Base salary offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Base salary is only part of the total rewards package, which may include eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive award. Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan as well as participate in Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and the employee's eligible dependents. Eligible employees also may receive other benefits (including various paid time off benefits, such as vacation and sick time), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, the employee will be in an "at will" position and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payments or compensation programs) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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