Software Engineering & Development, Vice President

State Street; Quincy (MA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Comprehensive benefits

Paid time off and volunteer days

Employee assistance program

Incentive compensation opportunities

Job summary

State Street is seeking a strategic technology leader to serve as Vice President, Asset Servicing Application Development and Maintenance. This role will oversee a critical settlement application, collaborate with external depositories and vendors, and drive modernization using AI, automation, and modern engineering practices to ensure reliability and client outcomes.

You will partner with business, product, operations, risk, and enterprise technology leaders to accelerate growth, improve

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or related field.
• 10+ years of technology leadership experience in financial services.
• Proven track record delivering enterprise-grade custody applications.
• Experience operating across multiple geographies.

Responsibilities

• Execute the technology strategy and roadmap for Core Custody aligned to business priorities.
• Ensure delivery excellence with resilient, secure, and scalable solutions.
• Oversee platform stability, regulatory adherence, and client outcomes.
• Partner with Product, Risk, and Client-facing teams to enable new products.
• Drive modern architectures, data platforms, and automation.
• Foster a culture of innovation and technology excellence.

Skills

Securities settlement

Platform resilience

Cloud technologies

DevOps practices

Stakeholder management

Education

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

Tools

MQ

Oracle

PL/SQL

Shell scripting

J2EE

Java web development

Job description

Who We Are Looking For

We are seeking a strategic technology leader to serve as Vice President, Asset Servicing Application Development and Maintenance. This leader will be responsible for managing a critical settlement application. This role requires interaction and support for an external settlement depository and related vendors. The successful candidate will manage development, oversee technology execution, engineering, delivery and modernization. They will drive innovation by leveraging AI capabilities, automation, and modern engineering practices, while ensuring operational resilience, regulatory compliance, and exceptional client outcomes. This application manager will partner closely with business, product, operations, risk, and enterprise technology leaders to accelerate growth, modernization, improve scalability and productivity, and enhance the overall client experience.

Why this role is important to us

The team you will be joining is part of Global Technology Services (GTS), which delivers enterprise technology capabilities that support State Street’s global businesses. Within GTS, this role is aligned to the Custody value stream. The position plays a pivotal role in shaping technology strategy and execution, ensuring solutions are built for reliability, scalability, and strong controls while meeting stringent regulatory, operational, and client expectations.

What You Will Be Responsible For

• We are looking for a candidate who is highly motivated, energetic, and technologically savvy.
• Execute the technology strategy and roadmap for Core Custody aligned to business priorities, client needs, and enterprise objectives.
• Ensure delivery excellence through highly resilient, scalable, secure, and efficient technology solutions.
• Accountable for platform stability, operational resiliency, service quality, regulatory adherence, and achievement of business and client outcomes.
• Partner closely with Product, Risk, and Client-facing teams to enhance capabilities, enable new products, support client growth, and improve competitive differentiation.
• Drive adoption of modern architectures, engineering practices, data platforms, and automation capabilities across the application.
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, continuous learning, and technology excellence.

What We Value

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• Strong domain expertise in securities settlement.
• Expertise building and operating highly resilient technology platforms.
• Strong knowledge of modern application architectures, artificial intelligence, public cloud technologies, DevOps practices, automation, and software engineering excellence.
• Deep understanding of technology risk, cybersecurity, controls, and governance frameworks.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influence across the organization.

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of technology leadership experience, including significant experience within financial services.
• Proven track record delivering application solutions for our business partners.
• Experience operating effectively and managing across multiple geographies.

Additional Requirements

• Experience with institutional securities settlement
• Experience with MQ, Oracle, PL/SQL, Shell scripting, J2EE, Java web development.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
• Willingness to engage across multiple regions and time zones.

Work Requirement

• Onsite with minimum 4 days in office
• 8:00 AM to 5 PM –
• Mandatory weekday presence between 8am-10am

Salary Range

$120,000 - $202,500 Annual

Benefits

• Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
• insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
• paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities
• access to our Employee Assistance Program
• incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans)
• eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans

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About State Street

Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success. We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.

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Job ID: R-797568