Generative AI Platform Architect — VP, Enterprise Systems

State Street; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with match

Insurance coverage

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Incentive compensation

Tax-advantaged accounts

Job summary

State Street seeks an experienced AI System Design Architect (VP) to lead enterprise AI system architecture strategy across the GenAI platform stack, combining deep expertise in Generative AI, enterprise architecture, platform engineering, and distributed systems.

This role will shape modernization priorities, set cloud design principles, and ensure security, resilience, and regulatory compliance for AI initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive enterprise-wide AI system architecture strategy across the GenAI platform stack.
• Define reference architectures, design standards, architecture principles, integration patterns, and cloud design approaches for AI platforms and AI-enabled applications.
• Provide strategic technical leadership on scalable, secure, resilient, and compliant AI system design across the organization.
• Lead architecture decisions for cloud and hybrid AI environments on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, ensuring interoperability, platform reuse, cost efficiency, and operational excellence.
• Establish reusable enterprise patterns for RAG, model serving, prompt orchestration, agentic AI workflows, AI gateways, and service integration.
• Chair or lead architecture governance forums, reviewing major solution designs, resolving technical trade-offs, and ensuring alignment to enterprise standards.
• Partner closely with business leaders, product teams, engineering, cloud, security, risk, data, and operations teams to align architecture strategy with business priorities.
• Ensure AI solutions comply with Responsible AI, governance, data controls, model risk, testing standards, security requirements, and regulatory expectations.
• Drive architecture assessments, technical due diligence, platform modernization, proof-of-concept direction, and production onboarding standards for AI systems.
• Guide enterprise decisions on platform capabilities, shared services, build-vs-buy evaluations, and modernization opportunities.
• Influence and mentor architects and engineering leaders to improve design quality, architectural consistency, and adoption of enterprise AI standards.
• Represent the Architecture function in senior governance and leadership forums.

Job description

State Street seeks an experienced AI System Design Architect (VP) to lead enterprise AI system architecture strategy across the GenAI platform stack, combining deep expertise in Generative AI, enterprise architecture, platform engineering, and distributed systems.

This role will shape modernization priorities, set cloud design principles, and ensure security, resilience, and regulatory compliance for AI initiatives.