Data Platform Engineer, VP II - State Street Investment Management

State Street; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 202,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

State Street is seeking a Vice President – Technology Lead to guide the architecture, engineering execution, and modernization of a cloud-native data platform supporting the investment management business.

You will own the data platform roadmap, drive governance and reliability, and collaborate with product, analytics, and ML teams to deliver scalable data solutions.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, engineering execution, and modernization strategy for a cloud-native data platform.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects to define data strategies and models.
• Design and optimize Iceberg-based tables for analytical access across engines.
• Establish CI/CD, IaC, automated testing, and data governance practices.
• Partner with product, analytics, ML, and SMEs to define data contracts and semantics.
• Publish curated semantic layer models and governed BI endpoints.
• Optimize pipelines for performance and scalability; advance SDLC and observability.

Skills

Python

SQL

Distributed data processing

AI-assisted development tools

Cloud-native data platforms

Big data architectures

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science or related engineering

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Apache Iceberg

Terraform/CloudFormation

Unity Catalog or equivalent

Job description

Who We Are Looking For

State Street Investment Management’s Data, Analytics & AI Services (DAAIS) team is seeking an experienced Vice President – Technology Lead to lead the architecture, engineering execution, modernization strategy, and technology roadmap supporting the investment management business. This role is accountable for the architecture, engineering delivery, and operational excellence of modern data platform and software capabilities that enable the investment management business. The successful candidate will bring deep hands-on expertise in large-scale data platform architecture, distributed computing, data pipeline engineering, and modern cloud architecture.

Why this role is important to us

The team you will be joining is a part of State Street Investment Management, one of the largest asset managers in the world. We partner with many of the world’s largest, most sophisticated investors and financial intermediaries to help them reach their goals through a rigorous, research-driven investment process. With over four decades of experience and trillions of dollars in assets under management, we offer one of the broadest selections of services across asset classes, risk profiles, regions and styles. As pioneers in index, ETF, and ESG investing, we are always inventing new ways to invest.

Join us if making your mark in the asset management industry from day one is a challenge you are up for.

What You Will Be Responsible For

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• Execute the long-term vision, target architecture, and roadmap for a unified, cloud-native data platform spanning ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, and secure access at scale.
• Collaborate with enterprise and application architects to define data strategies and deliver logical/physical data models aligned to analytical workloads.
• Collaborate on the core platform capabilities (Lakehouse, batch, events, streaming, metadata/catalog, observability, and security), ensuring reliability, scalability, and operability.
• Design, implement, and optimize Iceberg-based tables (partitioning, compaction, metadata) for consistent, performant analytical access across multiple compute engines.
• Establish data engineering excellence: CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), automated testing, schema/versioning practices, data quality controls, and end-to-end observability.
• Partner with Product, Analytics, ML, and domain SMEs to define data semantics and data product contracts (schemas, SLAs, documentation, versioning/backward compatibility), sand to enforce governance, stewardship, and compliance standards.
• Build and publish curated semantic layer models (serving models/marts), exposing governed BI endpoints and/or consumption APIs to ensure consistent metrics and business definitions.
• Optimize pipeline and query performance through effective partitioning/clustering, caching, archiving, and data lifecycle (purge/retention) patterns.
• Evaluate and advance the use of agentic AI frameworks to improve software delivery across the full software development life cycle (SDLC).

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline.
• 15+ years of technology experience in the financial services industry.
• Strong hands-on programming in Python and SQL (Java/Scala a plus), with the ability to design, debug, and optimize distributed data processing; familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Codex, Anthropic tools).
• Deep experience with Spark (batch and streaming) including performance tuning, troubleshooting, and cost-aware optimization.
• Hands-on experience building and operating modern Lakehouse platforms using Snowflake and Databricks on AWS (Azure acceptable), supporting high concurrency analytical workloads.
• Working knowledge of open table formats and metadata ecosystems, including Apache Iceberg and table catalogs/governance services (e.g., Unity Catalog or equivalent).
• Demonstrated hands-on experience designing and implementing modern, open architecture data platforms supporting OLAP, OLTP, and near real-time workloads; familiarity with catalog services that enable multiple compute engines, high concurrency, and strong performance.
• Extensive hands-on experience architecting and implementing enterprise DevOps and CI/CD pipelines with cloudagnostic solutions across public cloud providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Expertise in zero-copy data sharing, data virtualization, catalog federation, and governed data access patterns, enabling scalable and trusted data consumption across platforms.
• Experience working with both unstructured data sources and processing patterns.
• Strong operational and engineering excellence mindset, with experience establishing SDLC standards, CI/CD, observability, reliability engineering, incident management, and continuous improvement practices for mission-critical platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in data/platform development within a financial institution.
• Experience with both structured and unstructured data management tools and associated patterns.
• Familiarity with modern governance frameworks (Unity Catalog, Collibra, Alation).
• Expertise in AI-assisted coding using GitHub Copilot or Claude Code Assistant.

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.

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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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Job ID: R-794886