AI Systems Design Architect - Assistant Vice President

STATE STREET CORPORATION; Quincy (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 157,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Insurance coverage (medical, dental,/…

Paid time off including vacation, sick

Employee Assistance Program

Incentive compensation (annual awards)

Tax-advantaged savings plans

Job summary

STATE STREET CORPORATION is seeking an AI System Design Architect (AVP) to own end-to-end system design for a major GenAI platform and shared AI services. You will translate business requirements into robust architectures, define reference architectures, and drive integration across product, engineering, data science, cloud, and security teams.

Responsibilities include establishing non-functional requirements, ensuring security, resiliency, and compliance, and collaborating with pod teams to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline; Master’s degree preferred.
• 8–14 years of experience in solution architecture, enterprise application architecture, platform architecture, or AI/ML architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience with Generative AI, LLMs, ML systems, RAG architectures, vector databases, and AI application integration.
• Proven experience in cloud architecture and solution design on at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong understanding of cloud-native services including compute, storage, networking, identity and access management, security, and AI/ML services.
• Expertise in API architecture, microservices, distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and system integration patterns.
• Experience designing solutions with strong security, resiliency, scalability, observability, and performance considerations.
• Working knowledge of AI governance, Responsible AI, model risk, compliance, testing, and operational controls.
• Ability to lead architecture discussions and clearly communicate complex technical concepts to technical and business stakeholders.
• Strong collaboration, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture and system design for a major AI platform domain, including model integration, orchestration, APIs, data flows, and downstream system interactions.
• Define and implement reference architectures, design standards, integration contracts, and non-functional requirements (NFRs) for the platform area.
• Translate business and product requirements into scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable AI solution designs.
• Partner with business stakeholders, product managers, engineers, data scientists, platform teams, and security teams to deliver enterprise-ready AI systems.
• Design solutions leveraging cloud architecture principles on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, ensuring interoperability, scalability, observability, and operational readiness.
• Establish reusable architecture patterns for RAG, model serving, prompt workflows, agentic AI workflows, and AI application integration.
• Ensure alignment with Responsible AI, model governance, data handling, compliance, testing, risk, and production control requirements.
• Conduct architecture assessments, technical design reviews, and proof-of-concept evaluations for new AI use cases and platform capabilities.
• Review solution designs across pods and provide guidance on architecture decisions, trade-offs, and standards adherence.
• Partner with engineering and DevSecOps teams to support production readiness, release architecture, monitoring, and scalability planning.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline

Master’s degree preferred

8–14 years of experience in solution architecture, enterprise application architecture, platform architecture, or AI/ML architecture

Generative AI

LLMs

RAG architectures

Vector databases

AI application integration

Cloud architecture on AWS/Azure/GCP

API architecture, microservices, distributed systems

Security, resiliency, performance considerations

AI governance, Responsible AI, compliance

Leadership of architecture discussions

Stakeholder management

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Vector databases

Model serving platforms

Job description

We are seeking an AI System Design Architect (AVP) with strong expertise in Generative AI, Machine Learning, enterprise architecture, cloud platforms, and scalable solution design. This role will own end-to-end system design for a major GenAI platform and shared AI services, ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, compliant, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards. The ideal candidate will translate business and platform requirements into robust technical architectures across the AI stack, define architecture patterns and integration contracts, establish non-functional requirements, and provide architecture reviews across pods. This role requires close collaboration with product, engineering, data science, cloud, and control teams to drive scalable, production-grade AI solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture and system design for a major AI platform domain, including model integration, orchestration, APIs, data flows, and downstream system interactions.
• Define and implement reference architectures, design standards, integration contracts, and non-functional requirements (NFRs) for the platform area.
• Translate business and product requirements into scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable AI solution designs.
• Partner with business stakeholders, product managers, engineers, data scientists, platform teams, and security teams to deliver enterprise-ready AI systems.
• Design solutions leveraging cloud architecture principles on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, ensuring interoperability, scalability, observability, and operational readiness.
• Establish reusable architecture patterns for RAG, model serving, prompt workflows, agentic AI workflows, and AI application integration.
• Ensure alignment with Responsible AI, model governance, data handling, compliance, testing, risk, and production control requirements.
• Conduct architecture assessments, technical design reviews, and proof-of-concept evaluations for new AI use cases and platform capabilities.
• Review solution designs across pods and provide guidance on architecture decisions, trade-offs, and standards adherence.
• Partner with engineering and DevSecOps teams to support production readiness, release architecture, monitoring, and scalability planning.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline; Master’s degree preferred.
• 8–14 years of experience in solution architecture, enterprise application architecture, platform architecture, or AI/ML architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience with Generative AI, LLMs, ML systems, RAG architectures, vector databases, and AI application integration.
• Proven experience in cloud architecture and solution design on at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong understanding of cloud-native services including compute, storage, networking, identity and access management, security, and AI/ML services.
• Expertise in API architecture, microservices, distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and system integration patterns.
• Experience designing solutions with strong security, resiliency, scalability, observability, and performance considerations.
• Working knowledge of AI governance, Responsible AI, model risk, compliance, testing, and operational controls.
• Ability to lead architecture discussions and clearly communicate complex technical concepts to technical and business stakeholders.
• Strong collaboration, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

Salary Range: $90,000 - $157,500 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.

Benefits

• 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)
• eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.

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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.

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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.

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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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