Data Platform Engineer, VP II - State Street Investment Management
State StreetBase Salary
$120k - $203k/yr
Responsibilities
- Execute the long-term vision, target architecture, and roadmap for a unified cloud-native data platform spanning ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, and secure access.
- Define data strategies and logical and physical data models aligned with analytical workloads in collaboration with enterprise and application architects.
- Develop core Lakehouse, batch, event, streaming, metadata, catalog, observability, and security platform capabilities.
- Design, implement, and optimize Apache Iceberg-based tables, including partitioning, compaction, and metadata management.
- Establish engineering practices covering CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, schema and versioning practices, data quality, and end-to-end observability.
- Define data semantics, data product contracts, governance, stewardship, compliance standards, and backward-compatibility practices with Product, Analytics, ML, and domain teams.
- Build curated semantic-layer models, governed BI endpoints, and consumption APIs.
- Optimize pipeline and query performance through partitioning, clustering, caching, archiving, and data lifecycle management.
- Evaluate agentic AI frameworks and AI-assisted development tools for use across the software development life cycle.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline.
- 15+ years of technology experience in the financial services industry.
- Strong hands-on programming experience with Python and SQL; Java or Scala is a plus.
- Experience designing, debugging, and optimizing distributed data processing and using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Codex, or Anthropic tools.
- Deep experience with Spark batch and streaming, including performance tuning, troubleshooting, and cost-aware optimization.
- Hands-on experience building and operating modern Lakehouse platforms with Snowflake and Databricks on AWS; Azure experience is acceptable.
- Working knowledge of Apache Iceberg, open table formats, and metadata ecosystems such as Unity Catalog or equivalent services.
- Experience designing modern open-architecture data platforms supporting OLAP, OLTP, and near-real-time workloads across multiple compute engines.
- Extensive experience architecting enterprise DevOps and CI/CD pipelines with cloud-agnostic solutions across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Expertise in zero-copy data sharing, data virtualization, catalog federation, and governed data-access patterns.
- Experience with structured and unstructured data sources and processing patterns.
- Experience establishing SDLC standards, CI/CD, observability, reliability engineering, incident management, and continuous-improvement practices for mission-critical platforms.
- Preferred experience in data or platform development within a financial institution.
- Preferred familiarity with governance frameworks and tools including Unity Catalog, Collibra, and Alation.
- Preferred expertise in AI-assisted coding with GitHub Copilot or Claude Code Assistant.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $120,000–$202,500, with the applicable range potentially differing by primary work location.
- Retirement savings plan with 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 leave.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Eligibility for incentive compensation and annual performance-based awards, excluding certain sales roles.
- Eligibility for 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
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