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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
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Listed pay typically runs
$120,000–$202,500
across 172 roles with salary data.
The Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) Technology Delivery Lead – Managing Director leads engineering and delivery for the firm's strategic ETF platform. This executive role oversees globally distributed teams responsible for mission-critical platforms, large-scale batch-processing environments, and emerging cloud-native solutions. The leader manages architecture, quality assurance, release management, and production support while driving modernization initiatives to reduce technical debt and migrate systems to the cloud. Key responsibilities include ensuring platform stability, operational resilience, and risk reduction across a complex application ecosystem. The role requires expertise in AWS, microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, data platforms, and AI-enabled engineering. The candidate will navigate the complexities of asset servicing and trade lifecycle management within highly regulated financial environments to ensure high-quality execution against regulatory expectations and client commitments while fostering a culture of operational excellence and innovation.
Own the end-to-end delivery, architecture, and production support for the firm's ETF application suite.
Ensure platform stability and reliability by reducing incidents and improving monitoring and automated recovery capabilities.
Execute transformation roadmaps to reduce technical debt and migrate legacy systems to cloud-native architectures.
Drive engineering modernization using AWS, microservices, APIs, and AI-enabled automation tools.
Establish governance frameworks to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, cybersecurity standards, and internal risk controls.
Manage and develop a high-performing, globally distributed team of engineers, DevOps specialists, and QA professionals.
Serve as the executive escalation point for critical incidents and manage relationships with senior business stakeholders.
What we're looking for
15+ years of progressive technology leadership experience in asset management, capital markets, banking, or other highly regulated financial institutions.
Proven success leading large-scale, mission-critical technology platforms with demanding client, operational, and regulatory requirements.
Experience managing both legacy technology environments and modern cloud-native architectures.
Experience leading modernization and cloud transformation initiatives using AWS, APIs, microservices, automation, and DevOps practices.
Track record of improving operational resilience, reducing incidents, strengthening controls, and enhancing production stability.
Deep expertise in engineering delivery, production support, service management, change governance, and risk management.
Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder management skills for engagement with senior client executives.
Experience leading geographically distributed organizations across onshore, offshore, and vendor delivery models.