Full Stack Engineer, Vice President

State Street; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

State Street is seeking a senior Full Stack Engineering lead to set the technical strategy and execution model for platform engineering across multiple pods and domains. The role requires enterprise-scale architecture expertise, cloud-native transformation, and strong leadership to align technology with business goals.

You will define multi-platform roadmaps, guardrails, and standards, guiding modernization and driving platform quality, observability, and adoption enterprise-wide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 12-17 years of software/platform engineering experience including senior leadership roles.
• Proven track record in defining and executing technical strategy across teams.

Responsibilities

• Set the full-stack engineering strategy and multi-pod roadmap across platform domains.
• Define architecture guardrails and standards for backend, frontend, APIs, and cloud-native delivery.
• Own multi-platform modernization and drive platform quality, resilience, and observability.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Infrastructure, Risk, Security, and Ops leaders to align investments with business goals.
• Drive developer experience, release velocity, and platform adoption across the organization.
• Establish governance for technology choices, architecture patterns, and production readiness.
• Oversee engineering execution across pods and ensure delivery commitments.

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

AWS / Azure

Job description

About The Role

We are looking for a seniorFull Stack Engineering leaderto set the technical strategy and execution model for full-stack platform engineering across multiple pods and platform areas. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in enterprise-scale software architecture, cloud-native transformation, and engineering leadership, along with the ability to guide long-term platform direction while ensuring strong delivery, governance, and operational discipline.

As a VP, you will define the multi-platform full-stack engineering roadmap, establish architecture guardrails and engineering standards, and represent Engineering in cross-functional and executive governance forums. This role is suited for a leader who can align technology decisions with business priorities, scale engineering capability across teams, and drive platform quality, resilience, and adoption across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Set thefull-stack engineering strategy and technical roadmapacross multiple pods, product areas, and platform domains.
• Define architecture guardrails and technology standards forbackend services, frontend platforms, APIs, integration layers, cloud-native delivery, and developer tooling.
• Own engineering direction formulti-platform modernization, scalability, reliability, security, and engineering efficiency.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Infrastructure, Risk, Security, and Operations leaders to align engineering investments with business goals and enterprise standards.
• Drive organization-wide initiatives to improvedeveloper experience, release velocity, platform adoption, observability, and software quality.
• Establish governance and decision frameworks fortechnology choices, architecture patterns, engineering controls, and production readiness.
• Oversee engineering execution across pods, ensuring alignment to delivery commitments, capacity planning, and technical quality expectations.
• Represent Engineering incross-functional governance forums, architecture boards, and executive reviews, clearly articulating technical risks, trade-offs, and priorities.
• Build and lead engineering leadership talent across pods, includinghiring, mentoring, succession planning, and organizational capability development.
• Drive consistency in engineering standards across teams, includingsecure coding, CI/CD, testing strategy, observability, documentation, and incident management practices.
• Influence investment decisions related toplatform tooling, cloud strategy, vendor selection, and engineering operating models.
• Partner with finance and leadership stakeholders onbudget, headcount planning, and resource prioritizationfor the engineering function.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and market trends to evolve the organization’s full-stack engineering posture and long-term platform strategy.
• Champion a culture oftechnical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and measurable business impact.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree inComputer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 12-17 years of experiencein software engineering or platform engineering, including significant experience insenior engineering leadership roles.
• Proven track record of defining and executingtechnical strategy across multiple engineering teams or platform areas.
• Deep expertise inenterprise-scale application architecture, including backend platforms, frontend ecosystems, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native engineering.
• Strong experience withAWS and/or Azure, multi-cloud strategy, modernization programs, and engineering governance in complex environments.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and scaleengineering standards, architecture guardrails, delivery models, and operating practices.
• Strong understanding ofresilience, performance, security, compliance, observability, and operational riskin enterprise production environments.
• Experience leading engineering managers, technical leads, or multi-team engineering organizations.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at senior and executive levels.
• Experience owning or influencingbudget, workforce planning, vendor management, and strategic technology investments.
• Strong judgment in evaluating technology trade-offs and aligning architecture decisions to long-term business and platform needs.
• Exposure to modern application trends such asevent-driven systems, API ecosystems, and AI-enabled product capabilities.

About State Street

Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.

We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.

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