Senior Technical Architect
State Street1 day ago
Base Salary
$120k - $203k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve architecture for a distributed, cloud-native investment accounting platform.
- Design modular microservices, event-driven workflows, data architectures, unified data models, event contracts, and consistency strategies across IBOR and ABOR domains.
- Lead modernization of legacy VC++ systems into Java-based distributed services through migration patterns, decomposition strategies, and phased transformation roadmaps.
- Guide engineering teams in translating C++ constructs into scalable Java service patterns such as stateless and asynchronous services.
- Architect high-throughput, low-latency transaction processing and near-real-time accounting workflows.
- Define distributed caching, in-memory processing, read/write optimization, performance benchmarks, scalability patterns, and capacity-planning principles.
- Establish cloud-native engineering practices including containerization, orchestration, DevSecOps, observability, resiliency patterns, security controls, and API-first and contract-first design.
- Implement architectural solutions hands-on with engineering teams.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in software architecture and distributed systems design.
- Strong programming background in VC++ and Java with proven system modernization experience.
- Experience building large-scale distributed systems with low latency and high throughput.
- Experience with AWS or Azure and modern pipeline-as-code platforms.
- Strong understanding of data consistency, transaction processing, and accounting-like systems.
- Preferred experience with investment accounting or financial services platforms involving transactions, valuations, positions, and multi-currency processing.
- Preferred familiarity with observability and operational intelligence frameworks, unified data models, and ledger-based architectures.
- Preferred experience working in regulatory and audit-heavy environments.
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.
- Eligibility for certain tax-advantaged savings plans.
- Inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and employee networks.
About State Street
State Street is a global custodian bank and asset manager serving institutional investors with investment servicing, fund accounting, trading/FX, data, and index/active strategies. Its products include State Street Global Advisors’ funds and ETFs, the Charles River Investment Management Solution, and the front-to-back State Street Alpha platform. Founded in 1792 and headquartered in Boston, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE (ticker: STT) and operates across major markets worldwide.