AI Systems Design Architect, Vice President
State StreetBase Salary
$120k - $218k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own enterprise-wide AI system architecture strategy across the full Generative AI platform stack.
- Define and govern reference architectures, design standards, architecture principles, integration patterns, and cloud design approaches.
- Lead architecture decisions for cloud and hybrid AI environments on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Establish reusable patterns for RAG, model serving, prompt orchestration, agentic AI workflows, AI gateways, and service integration.
- Chair or lead architecture governance forums and resolve major technical trade-offs.
- Partner with business, product, engineering, cloud, security, risk, data, and operations teams on architecture strategy.
- Ensure AI solutions meet Responsible AI, governance, data control, model risk, testing, security, regulatory, and production requirements.
- Drive architecture assessments, technical due diligence, platform modernization, proof-of-concept direction, and production onboarding standards.
- Guide build-versus-buy, shared-service, platform capability, and modernization decisions.
- Mentor architects and engineering leaders and represent the Architecture function in senior leadership and governance forums.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline is required; a master's degree is preferred.
- 12–17 years of experience in solution architecture, enterprise application architecture, platform architecture, or AI/ML architecture, including leadership of large-scale enterprise initiatives.
- Deep hands-on and architectural experience with Generative AI, LLMs, ML systems, RAG, vector databases, prompt design and orchestration, and AI application integration.
- Proven cloud architecture and enterprise solution design experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture, AI/ML services, networking, storage, security, IAM, resilience, and performance optimization.
- Experience designing secure, resilient, and high-performing enterprise architectures for AI and data-driven applications.
- Expertise in API architecture, microservices, distributed systems, event-driven patterns, enterprise integration, and platform design.
- Strong understanding of AI governance, Responsible AI, model risk, compliance, testing, production controls, and control frameworks.
- Understanding of DevSecOps, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, reliability engineering, and platform engineering concepts.
- Ability to lead architecture discussions with senior executives and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong leadership, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Salary range is $120,000–$217,500 annually, with the applicable range potentially differing outside the primary location.
- Retirement savings plan with company match, insurance coverage including life, medical, dental, vision, and long-term disability, and optional additional coverages.
- Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family care responsibilities.
- Employee Assistance Program and eligibility for annual performance-based incentive awards and certain tax-advantaged savings plans.
- Inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and employee networks.
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About State Street
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