Quincy, Massachusetts
Who We Are Looking For We are looking for an experienced Technology Platform Leader, Managing Director to provide end-to-end technology leadership for a strategic business platform focused on digital integration, collaboration, data and report delivery. This leader will be accountable for the platform’s technology strategy, architecture, engineering, delivery, operational resilience, risk posture, modernization, financial performance, and talent . The successful candidate will combine strong technology depth with business and client orientation, translating strategic priorities into a multi-year platform roadmap while ensuring the platform remains secure, resilient, scalable, and cost effective. The role requires a senior leader who can operate across Product, Operations, Architecture, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Risk, and other technology organizations while leading a globally distributed engineering organization. Why This Role Is Important to Us Our technology platforms are fundamental to how we deliver services to our clients and operate the business. The Technology Platform Leader provides clear, end-to-end accountability for the health, evolution, and business value of the platform. The role is responsible for balancing three objectives:
• Run the platform exceptionally well with high availability, resilience, security, and effective risk management. • Modernize and simplify the platform to reduce complexity, technical debt, and total cost of ownership. • Advance the platform strategically by applying modern engineering, cloud, data, automation, and AI capabilities to improve client and operational outcomes. What You Will Be Responsible For Platform Strategy & Ownership
• Own the overall technology strategy, architecture, roadmap, and lifecycle of the platform.
• Provide technology and architecture leadership across applications, services, data, integration, infrastructure, and cloud components supporting the platform.
• Lead execution of major platform programs, regulatory commitments, client initiatives, technology upgrades, and releases.
• Maintain strong platform availability, resilience, performance, capacity, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Own technology execution within the platform budget and contribute to investment prioritization and multi-year financial planning.
• Build strong partnerships across Product, Operations, Client Services, Risk, Cybersecurity, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, and other technology organizations.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing global engineering organization. • Develop strong senior technology leaders and establish succession plans for critical leadership and technical roles. • Create a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, transparency, innovation, and continuous improvement. • Develop critical technical capabilities internally while using strategic partners appropriately to provide capacity or specialized expertise. What We Value The following capabilities will help you succeed in this role:
• Technology Platform Ownership & Strategic Leadership : demonstrated accountability for large-scale, business-critical technology platforms.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline; advanced degree preferred. • 15+ years of technology experience , including significant leadership responsibility for complex enterprise platforms and engineering organizations. • Demonstrated experience leading technology in financial services or another highly regulated industry. • Strong experience across application development, architecture, production management, and platform lifecycle management. • Experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud and modern cloud-native engineering practices. • Experience delivering major application modernization and technology transformation programs. • Strong understanding of technology risk, cybersecurity, resiliency, regulatory controls, and operational risk. • Experience managing significant technology budgets, strategic vendors, and globally distributed teams. • Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with executive management, clients, regulators, business leaders, and deeply technical teams. Leadership Success Measures Success in this role will ultimately be demonstrated through:
• Platform stability: resilient, secure, highly available services.
Salary Range: $170,000 - $267,500 Annual The range quoted above applies to the role in the location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the location above, the applicable range could differ.
Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans. For a full overview, visit https://hrportal.ehr.com/statestreet/Home .
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