Platform Engineering Lead, VP
State StreetBase Salary
$120k - $218k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, deployment, and evaluation of solutions for document processing, intelligent agents, automation frameworks, and data-driven workflows.
- Collaborate with cross-functional business and technology teams to translate requirements into scalable data and AI solutions.
- Build reusable frameworks, libraries, components, evaluation pipelines, and orchestration workflows to accelerate enterprise adoption.
- Define and evolve data architecture patterns for fund accounting, custody, reference data, and related financial-services domains.
- Model investment data concepts including NAV, positions, transactions, cash, income, corporate actions, securities, accounts, and party/reference data.
- Establish data lineage, integration standards, quality controls, reconciliation controls, governance, and secure deployment practices.
- Prioritize initiatives, manage delivery timelines, align work with enterprise goals, and guide teams and stakeholders.
- Balance domain expertise, engineering discipline, platform reuse, performance, security, and client delivery needs in architecture decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- 12+ years of overall IT delivery experience, including 3+ years of hands-on AI/ML and data engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on expertise with Python, Apache Spark, PySpark, and Databricks for large-scale data processing and AI model development.
- Experience designing, deploying, and evaluating machine learning and generative AI models using OpenAI, Hugging Face, Azure OpenAI, and LangChain.
- Experience with FastAPI, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Pandas, distributed systems, orchestration tools, and API integration; Java experience is a plus.
- Strong software engineering foundation in object-oriented programming, design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
- Experience building reusable components, libraries, frameworks, scalable pipelines, and AI evaluation systems.
- Understanding of responsible AI and technology practices, including fairness, transparency, safety, security, compliance, and explainability.
- Deep understanding of fund accounting, custody, reference data, data modeling, lineage, reconciliation, quality, and governance in regulated financial-services environments.
- Ability to manage multiple workflows or agents, influence cross-functional stakeholders, communicate effectively, work independently, and guide teams under general supervision.
- Experience using Fiddler and Postman for API development and debugging.
Benefits
- Retirement savings plan with 401(k) company match.
- Insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and optional additional coverages.
- Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family care responsibilities.
- Employee Assistance Program access.
- Eligibility for incentive compensation and annual performance-based awards, excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans.
- Eligibility for certain tax-advantaged savings plans, inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and employee networks.
- Work location is the John Adams Building in North Quincy, Massachusetts, with stated hours of 9 AM to 5 PM EST.
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About State Street
At State Street, we deliver leading investment platforms, data, expertise, and solutions that accelerate performance and better decision making. With over 200 years of global financial leadership, we equip institutional investors through a comprehensive suite of capabilities: Investment Services: Integrated front-to-back solutions across custody, accounting, and operations. Investment Management: Index and active strategies from one of the world’s largest asset managers. Markets: Multi-asset trading, FX solutions, and data-driven research to enhance portfolio value. Who We Are • 50,000+ employees worldwide • Active in 100+ markets • #1 in ETF servicing What You’ll Find Here • Executive perspectives and thought leadership • Timely market commentary and macro insights • Our views on investment operations, ETFs, private markets, and digital finance • Stories reflecting our culture, values and commitment to diversity and inclusion