Payments Tech Leader — SWIFT, ISO 20022 & Cloud Platform

STATE STREET CORPORATION; Quincy (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

STATE STREET CORPORATION is seeking a Technical Lead to guide the SWIFT & Payments Technology team in delivering secure, scalable payment infrastructure across cross-border messaging and ISO 20022 initiatives. You will drive architecture decisions, partner with cloud, security, and operations teams, and mentor engineers.

The role requires 12+ years in technology, 3-5 years in leadership, and strong cloud, DevOps, and observability experience.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of technology experience with at least 3-5 years in a technical leadership role.
• Experience supporting payments, SWIFT, ISO 20022, or financial messaging platforms.
• Cloud platform experience (Azure preferred).
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, site reliability engineering, and observability tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and implementation of payments technology solutions.
• Drive architecture reviews and technical decision-making for strategic initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership for SWIFT, ISO 20022, payment messaging, and integration platforms.
• Partner with infrastructure, network, cloud, security, and application teams to improve platform resiliency and availability.
• Lead incident analysis, root cause investigations, and remediation efforts for critical production issues.
• Oversee delivery of technical projects, ensuring adherence to security, compliance, and operational standards.
• Mentor engineers and developers while promoting engineering best practices.
• Coordinate with vendors and external partners to resolve technical challenges and support platform modernization.
• Support audit, regulatory, and operational risk management activities.

Skills

Payments technology

SWIFT messaging

Distributed systems

Leadership / Mentorship

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Cloud technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

Kafka

MQ

APIs

Azure

CI/CD

Observability tools

Job description

STATE STREET CORPORATION is seeking a Technical Lead to guide the SWIFT & Payments Technology team in delivering secure, scalable payment infrastructure across cross-border messaging and ISO 20022 initiatives. You will drive architecture decisions, partner with cloud, security, and operations teams, and mentor engineers.

The role requires 12+ years in technology, 3-5 years in leadership, and strong cloud, DevOps, and observability experience.