Platform Engineering Lead & AI Data Architect

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

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Comprehensive benefits including life/

Paid time off

Employee assistance program

Job summary

State Street seeks a dynamic leader to shape the future of technology at scale in Quincy, MA. You will guide advanced capabilities across domains, mentor teams, and influence stakeholders to build reusable frameworks and responsible practices.

You will drive data architecture, model investment data concepts, and ensure secure, auditable data flows across enterprise platforms. Excellent leadership and hands-on architectural depth are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Overall 12+ years in IT delivery including 3+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML and data engineering.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Python, Apache Spark, PySpark, and Databricks for large-scale data processing and AI model development.
• Proven ability to design, deploy, and evaluate machine learning and generative AI models using platforms such as OpenAI, Hugging Face, Azure OpenAI, and orchestration tools like LangChain.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of solutions across use cases such as document processing, intelligent agents, and automation frameworks
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into data-driven workflows using modern orchestration tools
• Promote responsible practices including security, compliance, and explainability, while ensuring robust deployment
• Establish reusable frameworks, evaluation pipelines, and scalable components to accelerate adoption and maintain consistency
• Prioritize initiatives, manage delivery timelines, and align efforts with enterprise goals
• Define and evolve data architecture patterns for fund accounting, custody, and reference data domains
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to model complex investment data concepts, including NAV, positions, transactions, cash, income, corporate actions, securities, accounts, and party/reference data
• Establish scalable data models, integration standards, and quality controls that support accurate accounting, custody servicing, reconciliation, regulatory reporting, and client-facing data delivery
• Drive architecture decisions that balance domain expertise, data governance, performance, security, and reuse across enterprise data platforms
• Balance domain knowledge, engineering discipline, platform reuse, and client delivery needs in architecture decisions
• A proactive mindset with the ability to work independently and guide teams under general supervision

Skills

Python

FastAPI

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Pandas

Java

Distributed systems

OOP

Design patterns

Data structures

Algorithms

LangChain

API integration

Security

Explainability

Data modeling

Data lineage

Education

Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Tools

Apache Spark

PySpark

Databricks

OpenAI

Hugging Face

Azure OpenAI

LangChain

Job description

State Street seeks a dynamic leader to shape the future of technology at scale in Quincy, MA. You will guide advanced capabilities across domains, mentor teams, and influence stakeholders to build reusable frameworks and responsible practices.

You will drive data architecture, model investment data concepts, and ensure secure, auditable data flows across enterprise platforms. Excellent leadership and hands-on architectural depth are essential.