Platform Engineering Lead, VP

State Street

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Work type
On-site
Location
Quincy, MA
Salary
$120,000–$217,500 / yr
Posted
23 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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This role $169k
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This role pays less than 59% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$213,200 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $169k versus about $182k for comparable roles.

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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 176 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $120,000–$202,500 across 172 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Platform Engineering Lead, VP

The Platform Engineering Lead, VP joins the Global Technology Services team to lead the design, development, and deployment of solutions for document processing, intelligent agents, and automation frameworks. This role involves building reusable components, evaluation pipelines, and scalable data architecture patterns for fund accounting, custody, and reference data domains. The successful candidate will manage complex investment data concepts such as NAV, positions, and transactions while ensuring robust data lineage and quality controls in a regulated environment. Technical requirements include proficiency in Python, PySpark, Apache Spark, and Databricks, along with experience using FastAPI, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Pandas, LangChain, and tools like Fiddler and Postman. The role also requires expertise in building generative AI models via OpenAI or Hugging Face while ensuring responsible practices regarding security, compliance, and explainability across enterprise data platforms.

What you'll do

  • Design, develop, and deploy solutions for document processing, intelligent agents, and automation frameworks.
  • Translate business requirements into data-driven workflows using modern orchestration tools.
  • Establish reusable frameworks, evaluation pipelines, and scalable components to accelerate adoption.
  • Define and evolve data architecture patterns for fund accounting, custody, and reference data domains.
  • Model complex investment data concepts including NAV, positions, transactions, and corporate actions.
  • Implement data lineage, quality controls, and governance for regulated financial services platforms.
  • Drive architectural decisions balancing domain expertise, performance, security, and platform reuse.
  • Ensure all deployments adhere to responsible AI practices, including security, compliance, and explainability.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
  • 12+ years in IT delivery including 3+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML and data engineering.
  • Expertise in Python, Apache Spark, PySpark, and Databricks for large-scale data processing and AI model development.
  • Experience designing, deploying, and evaluating machine learning and generative AI models using platforms like OpenAI, Hugging Face, Azure OpenAI, and LangChain.
  • Proficiency in software engineering principles including OOPS, design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
  • Deep understanding of fund accounting, custody, and reference data domains to build scalable data architecture.
  • Experience designing data lineage, quality, reconciliation, and governance controls for regulated financial services platforms.
  • Java experience (preferred).

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