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# Director, Full-Stack Engineer

- **Company:** The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation
- **Location:** Broughton, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Applications Architecture, Automation of Tests, Cloud Computing, Software Quality, Code Review, Databases, Continuous Integration, Software Design Patterns, Middleware, Systems Development Life Cycle, Secure Coding, Software Engineering, Apache Spark, Backend, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** September 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.apply4u.co.uk/jobs/director-full-stack-engineer/46592837

## About the Role

manual touchpoints, improving exception handling, and enhancing recovery and support processes. Support release planning, prioritization, and execution for strategic enhancements and remediation activities. Translate technical initiatives into business value through improved controls, reduced operational risk, enhanced audit readiness, and better user experience. Foster a culture aligned to BNY principles: Be Client Obsessed, Spark Progress, Own It, Stay Curious, and Thrive Together. Contribute to talent development, succession planning, and high-performance team culture within the engineering organization. To be successful in this role, were seeking the following: Significant experience leading full stack software engineering teams in enterprise environments. Strong hands-on or leadership experience across frontend, backend, APIs, middleware, databases, and cloud/infrastructure-integrated application architecture. Proven ability to lead large-scale platform enhancements, modernization, or
transformation programs. Experience managing engineering delivery in regulated, control-focused, or operationally critical environments. Strong understanding of software engineering practices including system design, CI/CD, automated testing, code review, and production support. Demonstrated ability to work across business, operations, and technology teams in a matrixed organization. Experience using or promoting AI-enabled software engineering practices such as intelligent coding assistance, AI-supported testing, workflow automation, knowledge retrieval, or operational analytics. Strong communication skills with the ability to engage senior stakeholders and articulate engineering outcomes in business terms. Experience in people leadership, coaching, and performance management. Preferred Qualifications: Experience in financial services, asset servicing, trust, custody, or adjacent platform-based enterprise domains. Exposure to domain modernization involving workflow controls, exception

## Description

solutions. Manage and mentor engineering teams across frontend, backend, APIs, integration layers, and platform services. Drive platform modernization initiatives that improve performance, maintainability, control effectiveness, and time to market. Embed an AI-first engineering approach by identifying opportunities to use AI for developer productivity, process optimization, code quality, testing acceleration, operational insights, and intelligent automation. Partner closely with product, operations, architecture, infrastructure, risk, and business stakeholders to align engineering delivery with platform priorities. Ensure strong SDLC discipline including requirements clarity, design quality, peer review, automated testing, release governance, production validation, and support readiness. Champion engineering best practices in full stack architecture, reusable design patterns, API strategy, observability, and secure coding. Strengthen platform stability and operational resilience by reducing


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