Vice President, Software Engineering

Job Title: Vice President, Software Engineering, Alpha Data Platform

The Opportunity:

We are seeking an experienced engineering leader to help shape and scale Alpha Data Platform, our strategic data platform serving enterprise clients and internal teams.

Alpha Data Platform delivers trusted data that enables faster decisions, greater agility, reduced operational risk, and deeper investment insights.

In this role, you will lead a team of approximately 25 engineers in India and own engineering outcomes for significant areas of the platform. You will partner closely with Engineering, Product Management, Architecture, Client Delivery, Support, and others to build scalable, resilient solutions for complex, mission-critical systems.

This is an opportunity to combine hands-on technical leadership with team development and strategic influence. You will shape architecture, improve engineering execution, and help evolve a platform that supports both State Street and its enterprise clients.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the technical direction and successful delivery of significant Alpha Data Platform capabilities.
• Lead execution across the complete software development lifecycle, from architecture and design through deployment and production support.
• Partner with Product Management to translate business and client priorities into a clear, executable engineering roadmap.
• Design scalable, maintainable solutions for complex enterprise data and platform requirements.
• Guide architectural decisions that improve scalability, performance, resilience, security, and operability.
• Provide technical leadership on complex system-design decisions and critical engineering challenges.
• Build and develop a high-performing engineering team by hiring, mentoring, and growing engineers and team leads.
• Promote engineering excellence through modern development practices, automation, testing, observability, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate across engineering, architecture, client delivery, and support teams on strategic initiatives and critical client needs.

What we are looking for:

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 15+ years of software-engineering experience, including experience leading teams responsible for enterprise-scale production systems.
• Strong technical expertise in Java, distributed systems, and database design.
• Demonstrated success designing and delivering scalable, reliable, high-quality platforms.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures, event-driven systems, and modern software-engineering practices.
• Proven ability to hire, mentor, develop, and lead strong technical teams.
• Strong communication, collaboration, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to balance strategic technical direction with pragmatic delivery.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience developing data platforms or other large-scale, data-intensive systems (Strongly Preferred)
• Experience with AI-assisted engineering practices and the thoughtful application of AI within software delivery (Strongly Preferred).
• Experience in financial services.

Why this role matters

• You will have the opportunity to influence the evolution of a strategic enterprise platform, develop talented engineering teams, and deliver capabilities that help internal teams and enterprise clients use trusted data to make better and faster decisions.

About Charles River Development:

Charles River Investment management System in a platform that provides many Front-Office functions including Portfolio Management, Order Management and Execution, Compliance, Performance & Attribution, Modelling, Scenario Analysis, and Wealth Management.

We are part of the State Street Bank. State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers, and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation, we’re making our mark in the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we’ve been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading, and investment management to institutional clients.

Work, Live and Grow. We make all efforts to create a great work environment. Our benefits packages are competitive and comprehensive. Details vary in location, but you may expect generous medical care, insurance and savings plans among other perks. You’ll have access to flexible Work Program to help you match your needs. And our wealth of development programs and educational support will help you reach your full potential.

Inclusion, Diversity and Social Responsibility. We truly believe our employees’ diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspective are a powerful contributor to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive and reach their maximum potential while adding value to both our organization and our clients. We warmly welcome candidates of diverse origin, background, ability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and personality. Another fundamental value at State Street is active engagement with our communities around the world, both as a partner and a leader. You will have tools to help balance your professional and personal life, paid volunteer days, matching gift programs and access to employee networks that help you stay connected to what matters to you.

State Street is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Discover more at StateStreet.com/careers.

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About State Street

Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.

We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.

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