VP of Agentic AI Engineering & Platform Architecture

State Street Corp; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Health, dental, vision insurance

Paid time off and disability coverage

Employee Assistance Program

Performance-based awards

Job summary

State Street Corp in Boston seeks an Agentic AI Engineering Principal, Vice President, to own design and engineering for a modern AI ecosystem supporting Investment Management. You will lead a global, agile team and mentor engineers, delivering scalable agentic workflows and governance across platforms.

The role requires hands-on architecture, cloud-agnostic pipelines, and proficiency with Python, SQL, Rust, and AI tooling. Strong communication across geographies is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline.
• 10+ years of technology experience in financial services, including senior-level engineering leadership.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing multi-agent workflows, including human-in-the-loop command center patterns and/or autonomous agentic workflows.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing modern, open-architecture AI platforms supporting ML/DL, GenAI, and agentic AI (Google Gemini Enterprise and Vertex AI preferred).
• Extensive experience designing and implementing enterprise agentic infrastructure pipelines, using cloud-agnostic approaches across major providers (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Proficiency with modern AI platforms (e.g., Google Gemini Enterprise, AWS Bedrock) and programming languages (e.g., Python, SQL, Rust); familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Anthropic Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex).
• 4+ years of experience working with unstructured data sources (e.g., sales notes, 13F filings, news, social media).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders across geographies.

Responsibilities

• Lead an agile agentic AI engineering team to deliver scalable solutions that meet evolving business and client needs.
• Partner with global stakeholders to execute cross-border initiatives and continuously strengthen engineering standards and best practices.
• Coach and mentor junior agentic engineers, building a culture of continuous learning, accountability, and high performance.
• Design agentic solution and implementation, including agent workflows; agent enablement across platform components; and governance (registration, security, observability, and monitoring) for AI agents.
• Design and lead the implementation of agentic AI capabilities, including architecture patterns, best practices, framework and tool selection, development, integration, and deployment.

Skills

Agentic AI engineering

Leadership

Multi-agent workflows

AI platforms (GenAI, Vertex AI)

Python

SQL

Rust

Cloud integration (GCP/AWS/Azure)

Stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Anthropic Code

GitHub Copilot

Codex

Job description

State Street Corp in Boston seeks an Agentic AI Engineering Principal, Vice President, to own design and engineering for a modern AI ecosystem supporting Investment Management. You will lead a global, agile team and mentor engineers, delivering scalable agentic workflows and governance across platforms.

The role requires hands-on architecture, cloud-agnostic pipelines, and proficiency with Python, SQL, Rust, and AI tooling. Strong communication across geographies is essential.