DevOps Technical Team Lead, VP

State Street; Burlington (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Performance-based incentives

Job summary

State Street is seeking a Technical Team Lead to own the technical direction and delivery of our Client CI/CD platform, enabling customers to build, validate, and deploy CRIMS customizations to dedicated SaaS environments.

You will combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership, guiding a small development team while collaborating with clients, product owners, security teams, and stakeholders. The role emphasizes DevSecOps practices, automation, and secure release processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience leading or coordinating a software engineering or DevOps team.
• Minimum 5 years of experience working in a DevOps engineering or platform role.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, CircleCI, or other major CI/CD systems.
• Practical experience with Terraform, Ansible, and Docker.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience with Python, Java, and SQL.
• Proficiency using GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or other agentic development tools and harnesses to improve engineering efficiency.
• Understanding of secure DevSecOps principles, SDLC practices, vulnerability management, CVE workflows, penetration testing, and security scanning.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines and platform capabilities.
• Define scalable, reliable, and secure automation for building and deploying client customizations.
• Develop infrastructure and deployment automation using Azure DevOps, Terraform and Ansible.
• Use LLM‑based tools for automating reviewing proposed changes, identifying potential risks, and troubleshooting issues.
• Establish and maintain DevSecOps practices, including static and dynamic security testing, dependency and vulnerability scanning, CVE remediation workflows, penetration testing coordination, and secure release processes.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues involving pipelines, infrastructure, deployments, and customer environments.
• Lead technical estimation, prioritization, architecture decisions, and delivery planning.
• Work directly with clients and stakeholders to refine requirements and define practical solutions.
• Lead and mentor a small development team.
• Create and maintain clear technical documentation, architecture documentation, operational procedures, and support runbooks.
• Improve platform reliability, security, observability, performance, and developer experience.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Communication

Problem solving

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

TeamCity

CircleCI

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Python

Java

SQL

GitHub Copilot

Job description

We are seeking a Technical Team Lead to own the technical direction and delivery of our Client CI/CD platform. The platform enables customers to build, validate, and deploy CRIMS customizations to their dedicated SaaS-hosted environments.

You will combine hands‑on engineering with technical leadership, guiding a small development team while collaborating with clients, product owners, security teams, and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines and platform capabilities.
• Define scalable, reliable, and secure automation for building and deploying client customizations.
• Develop infrastructure and deployment automation using Azure DevOps, Terraform and Ansible.
• Use LLM‑based tools for automating reviewing proposed changes, identifying potential risks, and troubleshooting issues.
• Establish and maintain DevSecOps practices, including static and dynamic security testing, dependency and vulnerability scanning, CVE remediation workflows, penetration testing coordination, and secure release processes.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues involving pipelines, infrastructure, deployments, and customer environments.
• Lead technical estimation, prioritization, architecture decisions, and delivery planning.
• Work directly with clients and stakeholders to refine requirements and define practical solutions.
• Lead and mentor a small development team.
• Create and maintain clear technical documentation, architecture documentation, operational procedures, and support runbooks.
• Improve platform reliability, security, observability, performance, and developer experience.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience leading or coordinating a software engineering or DevOps team.
• Minimum 5 years of experience working in a DevOps engineering or platform role.
• Hands‑on experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, CircleCI, or other major CI/CD systems.
• Practical experience with Terraform, Ansible, and Docker.
• At least 5 years of hands‑on experience with Python, Java, and SQL.
• Proficiency using GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or other agentic development tools and harnesses to improve engineering efficiency.
• Understanding of secure DevSecOps principles, SDLC practices, vulnerability management, CVE workflows, penetration testing, and security scanning.
• Experience troubleshooting production systems and resolving complex technical issues.
• Experience with a major public cloud provider; Azure experience is preferred.
• Strong communication, documentation, analytical, and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Ability to translate client requirements into technical designs, estimates, and prioritized delivery plans.

Desirable Qualifications

• Familiarity with Liquibase and database change‑management practices.
• Experience with .NET and C#.
• Experience building platforms for SaaS products or dedicated customer environments.
• Familiarity with cloud networking, identity and access management, monitoring, and secrets management.
• Experience implementing automated compliance, security gates, and release controls in CI/CD pipelines.
• Relevant Azure, DevOps, cloud, or security certifications.

Salary Range:

$120,000 - $217,500 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.

For a full overview, visit https://hrportal.ehr.com/statestreet/Home.

About State Street

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