Senior Platform Engineering Lead – Cloud-Native Data Platforms

State Street; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Comprehensive insurance coverage

Paid time off and family leave

Employee Assistance Program

Incentive compensation programs

Tax-advantaged savings plans

Job summary

State Street seeks a Senior Platform Engineering Manager to shape architecture and engineering standards for mission-critical wealth technology. You will lead development of high-scale, low-latency distributed systems in a cloud-native environment, partnering with product, data, risk, and business stakeholders to ensure accuracy, availability, and regulatory compliance.

You will guide multi-team, enterprise-scale delivery, drive cloud transformations, and build resilient platforms with strong

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software and platform engineering.
• Proven experience designing and operating cloud-native data platforms on AWS/GCP/Azure.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation), CI/CD pipelines, and automation.
• Experience in highly regulated environments and collaborating with Risk, Compliance, and Security.
• Proven ability to lead and scale global engineering teams with measurable impact.

Responsibilities

• Leads end-to-end delivery of cloud-native data platforms as products.
• Drives enterprise adoption of public cloud databases with standardized patterns.
• Architects and delivers highly resilient, distributed systems with strong availability and latency.
• Partners with Risk, Compliance, and Security to meet audit and data protection standards.
• Executes large-scale cloud transformation initiatives, including zero-downtime migrations.
• Builds and scales high-performing teams while driving cost efficiencies and automation.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Master's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

PostgreSQL

MongoDB Atlas

Kafka

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

State Street seeks a Senior Platform Engineering Manager to shape architecture and engineering standards for mission-critical wealth technology. You will lead development of high-scale, low-latency distributed systems in a cloud-native environment, partnering with product, data, risk, and business stakeholders to ensure accuracy, availability, and regulatory compliance.

You will guide multi-team, enterprise-scale delivery, drive cloud transformations, and build resilient platforms with strong