Global Front Office Transformation SVP

State Street; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

State Street is seeking a Global Head of Front Office Re-Engineering, Senior Vice President, based in Boston or London, to lead enterprise execution, solution architecture, and modernization across front-office technology for a ~$6T asset manager.

You will build a distributed global engineering organization spanning APAC, North America, and EMEA, delivering scalable platforms and measurable business outcomes while driving AI-enabled engineering and resilient design.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline required.
• 25+ years of experience in asset management technology, front-office engineering, portfolio management and trading platforms, investment data/IBOR, AI-enabled engineering, or large-scale technology transformation.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise execution of front-office re-engineering priorities, translating multi-year strategy into scalable platforms and measurable business outcomes.
• Execute technology strategy and investment priorities with senior stakeholders, ensuring delivery, adoption, risk reduction and value realization.
• Drive solution architecture and design thinking across the investment platform, applying API-first, event-driven, cloud-native, and resilient patterns.
• Build a distributed global engineering organization across APAC, North America, and EMEA through talent development and engineering standards.
• Lead engineering disciplines aligned to portfolio management, trading, investment data (real-time IBOR), risk, analytics, and platform modernization.
• Drive adoption of SDLC-led AI capabilities to improve productivity, quality, testing, and delivery predictability.
• Simplify and scale portfolio management platforms, reduce data fragmentation, enable AI at scale for investment teams.
• Provide executive transparency on delivery progress, architecture trade-offs, adoption, risks, and funding needs.

Skills

Front-office engineering

Portfolio management

Trading platforms

Investment data/IBOR

AI-enabled engineering

Technology transformation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related

MBA, CFA, PMP, Agile, SAFe, cloud or AI certifications preferred

Job description

State Street is seeking a Global Head of Front Office Re-Engineering, Senior Vice President, based in Boston or London, to lead enterprise execution, solution architecture, and modernization across front-office technology for a ~$6T asset manager.

You will build a distributed global engineering organization spanning APAC, North America, and EMEA, delivering scalable platforms and measurable business outcomes while driving AI-enabled engineering and resilient design.