Senior Technical Architect - Cloud-Native Modernization

State Street Corp; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Insurance coverage (medical, dental, &

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

State Street is seeking a hands-on Senior Technical Architect to lead end-to-end architecture, design, and implementation for a cloud-native investment accounting platform. You will modernize legacy VC++ systems into Java-based microservices with an event-driven approach and ensure high throughput, low latency, and scalable operations across cloud environments.

The role requires strong VC++ and Java expertise, experience with AWS/Azure, and modern CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Strong programming background in VC++ and Java with proven modernization experience.
• Experience with AWS/Azure and modern CI/CD platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve architecture for a cloud-native, distributed Investment Accounting platform.
• Lead modernization of legacy VC++ systems into Java-based distributed services.
• Design data architectures and event-driven patterns for real-time processing.
• Ensure security, compliance, and observability as part of architecture.

Skills

VC++

Java

Cloud/AWS

Azure

Distributed systems

Event-driven architecture

High throughput / low latency

CI/CD

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

API-first design

Job description

State Street is seeking a hands-on Senior Technical Architect to lead end-to-end architecture, design, and implementation for a cloud-native investment accounting platform. You will modernize legacy VC++ systems into Java-based microservices with an event-driven approach and ensure high throughput, low latency, and scalable operations across cloud environments.

The role requires strong VC++ and Java expertise, experience with AWS/Azure, and modern CI/CD pipelines.