Chief Technology Officer

State Street

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Work type
On-site
Location
Boston, MA
Salary
$170,000–$282,500 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
102 days ago
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About State Street

State Street Corporation is one of the world''s largest custodian banks and asset managers, providing investment servicing, investment management, and investment research to institutional investors. Industry: Financial Services & Asset Custody

State Street currently has 351 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $115,000–$195,944 across 199 roles with salary data.

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The Founding Chief Technology Officer will join the leadership team of a new mobile- and AI-first wealth and retirement advisory platform. This role involves defining the platform architecture, establishing engineering standards, and building the initial technology organization from the ground up. The CTO will oversee application, cloud, data, security, integration, and AI platform architectures while ensuring multi-region resilience, disaster recovery, and site reliability engineering. Key responsibilities include implementing a zero-trust security posture, managing LLM orchestration, and recruiting a diverse engineering team. The candidate must possess extensive experience in cloud-native products, high-availability systems, and privacy-by-design principles. This position solves the technical challenge of creating a production-grade, auditable, and secure financial platform that supports responsible AI-driven wealth management for millions of consumers.

Skills

AI LLM Orchestration Cloud-Native Web Architecture Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Zero-Trust Architecture Encryption Security Monitoring Disaster Recovery High Availability Performance Engineering Monitoring and Alerting Privacy-by-Design QA/Automation

What you'll do

  • Design and govern the mobile- and AI-first target architecture for the entire platform.
  • Establish engineering standards for scalability, reliability, security, and privacy-by-design.
  • Implement an ironclad security posture including zero-trust architecture and responsible AI governance.
  • Lead technical design reviews and oversee engineering quality while personally contributing to execution.
  • Recruit and build the initial technical team across mobile, cloud, data, and AI disciplines.
  • Partner with product and AI teams to deliver production-grade LLM orchestration and agentic workflows.
  • Manage strategic technology partnerships with cloud providers, AI vendors, and financial services partners.

What we're looking for

  • 10–20+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Prior experience as a CTO, Chief Architect, VP Engineering, Distinguished Engineer, or Principal Engineer.
  • Experience building cloud-native products.
  • Experience operating responsive consumer mobile and web applications at a large scale of millions of users.
  • Experience leading engineering teams.
  • Experience designing highly available systems.
  • Experience securing consumer-facing platforms and embedding privacy-by-design principles.
  • Experience recruiting elite technical talent across mobile, cloud, and data/AI disciplines.

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