Vice President - Cloud-Native Software Engineering Lead

State Street Corp; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

State Street is seeking a hands‑on Application Engineering Lead to provide engineering leadership for a large scale, business critical platform. You will work in a fast‑paced Agile environment across geographies, delivering secure, scalable, resilient enterprise solutions in the cloud.

As a Software Engineering & Development Lead, Vice President, you will guide teams, collaborate with business and IT, and ensure production readiness and operational stability while mentoring talent and

Qualifications

• 12+ years’ experience in IT developing enterprise applications and data processing solutions.
• Experience with multi-platform, multi database and/or multi language.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS Compute services like EC2, Lambda, ECS or EKS and AWS RDS (Postgres SQL development).
• Hands‑on experience with ReactJS or other front end programming languages.
• Experience with designing & delivering solutions on AWS or other cloud platforms.
• Experience with event driven architecture, micro‑services, and serverless development patterns.
• Experience leading agile delivery & adhering to SDLC processes is required.
• Experience in financial industry working on financial reporting/regulatory projects is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead software engineering teams delivering large-scale enterprise applications
• Partner with business, architecture, infrastructure, and risk teams to deliver strategic technology solutions.
• Oversee solution design, development, production readiness, and operational stability.
• Mentor engineering talent and foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Communicate technology strategy, risks, and delivery progress to senior leadership.
• Design and develop cloud native applications in AWS for the IMS West business unit
• Provide hands‑on support during critical delivery initiatives and complex production challenges.

Skills

Enterprise software development

AWS (Compute services)

ReactJS

Cloud platforms

Event‑driven architecture

Microservices

Agile delivery

Regulatory/financial domain

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science

Tools

AWS EC2

AWS Lambda

AWS ECS

AWS EKS

AWS RDS PostgreSQL

ReactJS

Job description

State Street is seeking a hands‑on Application Engineering Lead to provide engineering leadership for a large scale, business critical platform. You will work in a fast‑paced Agile environment across geographies, delivering secure, scalable, resilient enterprise solutions in the cloud.

As a Software Engineering & Development Lead, Vice President, you will guide teams, collaborate with business and IT, and ensure production readiness and operational stability while mentoring talent and