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.
- Establish a clear multi-year technology roadmap aligned with business, product, operations, client, and enterprise technology priorities.
- Act as the senior technology point of accountability for platform health, delivery, investment, risk, modernization, and business outcomes.
- Define measurable technology outcomes and ensure investments deliver appropriate business value and return on investment.
Architecture, Engineering & Modernization
- Provide technology and architecture leadership across applications, services, data, integration, infrastructure, and cloud components supporting the platform.
- Drive simplification and modernization of legacy technology, reducing fragmentation, manual processes, technical debt, and unnecessary technology complexity.
- Advance modern engineering practices including APIs, cloud-native architectures, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, data-driven operations, and responsible adoption of AI.
- Ensure solutions conform to enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, data, engineering, and technology standards.
- Create reusable platform capabilities instead of point solutions wherever doing so improves scale, speed, and economics.
Delivery & Execution
- Lead execution of major platform programs, regulatory commitments, client initiatives, technology upgrades, and releases.
- Establish strong engineering and SDLC disciplines with clear accountability for quality, schedule, scope, and financial outcomes.
- Partner closely with Product and Operations to translate business priorities into executable technology roadmaps.
- Identify execution challenges early and drive decisions, issue resolution, and remediation across organizational boundaries.
Resilience, Risk & Operational Excellence
- Maintain strong platform availability, resilience, performance, capacity, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
- Own the platform technology risk posture and drive timely remediation of vulnerabilities, audit findings, control gaps, end-of-life technology, and technical debt.
- Establish meaningful metrics and SLAs for platform health and use them to continuously improve operational performance.
- Lead major incident management, root-cause analysis, and sustainable remediation when significant technology issues occur.
- Embed cybersecurity, control, compliance, and resilience requirements directly into platform engineering.
Financial & Vendor Management
- Own technology execution within the platform budget and contribute to investment prioritization and multi-year financial planning.
- Continuously improve platform economics by simplifying architecture, reducing technical debt, eliminating unnecessary duplication, and improving engineering productivity.
- Manage strategic technology vendors and delivery partners, establishing clear accountability for cost, risk, quality, and outcomes.
- Make transparent investment trade-offs across growth, modernization, mandatory change, risk reduction, and platform maintenance.
Stakeholder & Client Leadership
- Build strong partnerships across Product, Operations, Client Services, Risk, Cybersecurity, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, and other technology organizations.
- Communicate platform strategy, investment priorities, delivery progress, operational health, and technology risks clearly to senior leadership.
- Represent Technology in senior business, client, governance, and regulatory discussions where appropriate.
- Influence across organizational boundaries and drive alignment where priorities or objectives compete.
Organization & Talent Leadership
- 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.
- Architecture & Modernization Expertise: deep understanding of enterprise application architecture, distributed systems, APIs, data platforms, cloud, integration, and modern engineering practices.
- Risk, Resilience & Operational Excellence: experience operating highly available technology in a regulated environment with strong cybersecurity, controls, resilience, and production-management disciplines.
- Large-Scale Program & Financial Management: demonstrated ability to manage complex transformation portfolios, technology budgets, vendors, delivery commitments, and competing investment priorities.
- Executive & Business Leadership: ability to translate technology into business outcomes and influence senior stakeholders across Technology, Product, Operations, Risk, and Client organizations.
- Talent Leadership: proven ability to build global engineering organizations, develop senior leaders, attract strong technical talent, and create succession depth.
Education & Preferred Qualifications
- 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.
- Predictable execution: strategic and client commitments delivered with quality.
- Reduced risk: measurable improvement in vulnerabilities, technology debt, control gaps, and end-of-life technology.
- Modernization: simpler architecture, increased automation, and adoption of strategic engineering patterns.
- Improved economics: lower platform complexity and total cost of ownership with stronger return on technology investment.
- Business impact: faster delivery of capabilities that improve client experience and operational outcomes.
- Organizational strength: a high-performing engineering organization with strong leadership depth and succession.
Work Requirement
- Onsite 4 days a week in office and one day remote
- Standard business hours aligned to project and stakeholder needs(8am to 5pm)
Salary Range:
$170,000 - $267,500 Annual The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary 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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