AI Governance Engineer, VP

State Street Corporation; Burlington (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Health, dental, vision insurance

Paid time off and volunteer days

Employee networks and development

Job summary

State Street Alpha seeks an experienced AI Governance Architect to lead governance of Generative AI, LLMs and AI-enabled engineering. Collaborate with architecture, engineering, cybersecurity, compliance, product, legal and risk teams to ensure solutions meet enterprise standards.

Ideal candidates bring deep AI governance, cloud, security, and financial services control experience. This role advocates for secure, auditable and cost-effective AI practices within a regulated financial services

Qualifications

• Four-year technical degree required.
• 4–12 years in Financial Tech and application production support.
• Exposure to SQL and relational databases; Oracle/MSSQL knowledge.
• Experience with structured programming languages and system administration.
• Familiarity with Salesforce for case tracking preferred.
• Knowledge of cloud computing, virtualization and Kafka is a plus.
• Proven ability to work in mission-critical production environments.

Responsibilities

• Policy adoption and standards tailoring across enterprise architecture and security.
• Interpret corporate policy into Charles River standards and controls.
• Maintain traceability from obligations to controls and owners.
• Represent Charles River in enterprise policy development for software and cloud.
• Identify misalignments and secure executive-approved adaptations.
• Own AI intake, classification, and approval for use across functions.
• Align classifications to NIST AI RMF and enterprise risk taxonomy.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Relational databases

Programming concepts

Production support experience

Education

Four-year degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Oracle SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server

Salesforce

Kafka

Cloud platforms

virtualization

Job description

Who we are looking for

State Street Alpha is seeking a highly experienced AI Governance Architect to lead the governance, oversight, and responsible adoption of Generative AI, Agentic AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and AI-enabled engineering capabilities across organization. This position offers the opportunity to collaborate with architecture, engineering, cybersecurity, compliance, product, legal, risk management, and FinOps teams to ensure AI solutions align with enterprise governance, security, regulatory, risk, and cost management standards.

Ideal candidates bring deep experience in AI governance, cloud platforms, responsible AI, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, and financial services control environments, and are energized by building scalable, secure, auditable, and cost-effective AI practices.

Why is this role important to us

The team you will join is part of Charles River Development (or CRD), which became part of State Street in 2018. CRD creates enterprise investment management software solutions for large institutions in institutional investment, wealth management, and hedge funds. Together we have created the first open front-to-back platform - State Street Alpha, that was launched in 2019.

As AI adoption continues to accelerate across financial services, governance, architectural oversight, security, regulatory alignment, cost transparency, and operational discipline are critical to ensuring solutions are secure, compliant, scalable, explainable, and sustainable. This role will lead the responsible evaluation, onboarding, governance, and consumption management of AI solutions and services while helping teams align to enterprise standards, financial accountability, and strategic objectives.

What you will be responsible for

Policy Adoption and Standards Tailoring

Evaluate AI technologies and services against enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, regulatory, privacy, operational, and cost management requirements.

Interpret State Street Enterprise Data, AI and Agentic AI policy and translate it into Charles River standards, control requirements and review criteria.

Maintain traceability from each enterprise obligation to the Charles River control that satisfies it, its owner and its evidence.

Represent Charles River in enterprise policy development, ensuring software engineering and cloud operations considerations are reflected.

Identify where enterprise policy does not fit a software engineering organization and secure agreed positions, adaptations or exceptions.

AI Intake, Classification and Approval

Own intake, classification and approval for AI use across engineering, cloud operations and Charles River business functions.

Align classification and inventory to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and the enterprise risk taxonomy.

Requirements

• Four (4) year degree in a technical field such as Computer Science, Engineering, or another related technical field.
• Four (4) to Twelve (12) years of overall work experience in the world of Financial Technology and application production support.
• Exposure to SQL and fundamental understanding of relational database theory and/or specific knowledge of Oracle/Microsoft SQL Server
• Exposure to one or more structured programming languages Extensive experience in system administration - system configuration management, resource sharing, operating system fundamentals
• Relevant technical course work and/or technical academic projects.
• Familiarity to using Salesforce for Case tracking is preferred. Knowledge of industry principles and new technologies like cloud computing, virtualization, KAFKA etc. is preferred
• Proven ability to work in a mission-critical production support environment.

Salary Range

$120,000 - $202,500 Annual

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street's comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.

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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