VP, Data for AI Agents: Lead Enterprise AI Data Strategy

State Street Corporation; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Comprehensive benefits

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Annual incentive awards

Job summary

State Street Corporation seeks a Vice President, Data – AI Agents to lead the day-to-day delivery of the Data workstream for enterprise AI and agentic AI capabilities. You will ensure authoritative, governed, and traceable data for AI use cases before production.

You will translate AI-use-case requirements into practical data solutions, collaborate with Business, Data, AI Engineering, and Security teams, and drive data readiness, quality, and provenance across the organization.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in data management, data architecture, data governance, data analysis or data transformation.
• Practical experience delivering complex data initiatives within a large enterprise.
• Strong understanding of data quality, metadata, lineage, classification and data lifecycle concepts.
• Working understanding of Generative AI and large language model concepts, particularly RAG, grounding and enterprise search.
• Understanding of structured and unstructured enterprise information.
• Knowledge of data-access controls, entitlements and identity/access-management principles.
• Experience working with business and technology stakeholders to define requirements and deliver data solutions.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify data dependencies and drive issues to resolution.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex data issues to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in a regulated or highly controlled environment is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead Data workstream delivery for assigned AI-agent use cases from initial assessment through production.
• Translate business and AI-agent requirements into clear data requirements, dependencies and delivery plans.
• Identify required structured and unstructured data sources and establish the appropriate authoritative source.
• Coordinate with Data Owners and Data Stewards to confirm ownership, permitted usage and data readiness.
• Perform and coordinate AI Data Readiness assessments, identifying gaps and driving remediation.
• Assess data quality, freshness, completeness and suitability for AI-agent use.
• Support data patterns for APIs, retrieval-augmented generation, grounding and enterprise search.
• Ensure appropriate metadata, classification, lineage and provenance are established for information consumed by AI agents.
• Work with Security and IAM teams to implement appropriate user, agent and service-identity entitlements.
• Ensure AI retrieval and grounding solutions respect underlying data-access restrictions and do not create unintended access paths.
• Support requirements for agent memory, contextual information, AI-generated data, retention and traceability.
• Define and coordinate data validation and testing before production deployment.
• Establish appropriate operational monitoring for data availability, freshness, quality, access and retrieval.
• Track data issues, dependencies and risks and elevate material blockers to the VP Data Stream Lead and relevant governance forums.
• Identify opportunities to reuse existing enterprise data capabilities rather than creating bespoke integrations for individual agents.
• Maintain documentation and evidence required to demonstrate that Data requirements and controls have been addressed.

Skills

Data management

Data architecture

Data governance

Data analysis

Data transformation

Generative AI understanding

Metadata concepts

Data lifecycle

RBAC/ABAC understanding

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Microsoft Azure AI Foundry

Microsoft Purview

Collibra

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

State Street Corporation seeks a Vice President, Data – AI Agents to lead the day-to-day delivery of the Data workstream for enterprise AI and agentic AI capabilities. You will ensure authoritative, governed, and traceable data for AI use cases before production.

You will translate AI-use-case requirements into practical data solutions, collaborate with Business, Data, AI Engineering, and Security teams, and drive data readiness, quality, and provenance across the organization.