Enterprise Architecture, Vice President

State Street•Quincy, MA

19h•Onsite

About The Position

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and advancing State Street’s enterprise technology architecture to enable strategic business objectives, regulatory compliance, and long-term platform sustainability. This role shapes current and target state architecture, establishes architecture standards and reference architectures, and influences technology investment and solution design decisions across the enterprise in alignment with State Street’s technology and business strategy.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
10+ years of experience in technology architecture, with enterprise scale systems in complex, regulated environments.
Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF based practices).
Demonstrated experience influencing architecture decisions across large, federated organizations.
Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into executive level insights.

Nice To Haves

Experience in financial services or highly regulated industries.
Hands on experience with cloud platforms, data architectures, and modern integration patterns.
Familiarity with regulatory expectations impacting enterprise architecture (e.g., FFIEC aligned control areas).
Experience working within hybrid (central/federated) architecture models.

Responsibilities

Define and evolve enterprise and domain-level architecture strategies aligned to State Street’s business, risk, and technology goals.
Research and leverage AI for Enterprise Architecture tasks.
Develop and maintain current state and target state architecture views to reduce complexity, technology debt, and cost while improving agility and scalability.
Guide platform convergence and modernization initiatives, including cloud, data, and integration architectures.
Participate in and support architecture governance forums (e.g., Technology Review Board, New Technology Adoption processes, ATO/ARB) to ensure alignment with approved standards and patterns.
Evaluate solution designs for compliance with enterprise architecture principles, standards, policies, and regulatory expectations (e.g., FFIEC aligned practices).
Provide decision ready recommendations to technology and business leaders on architecture trade offs and investment choices.
Define, document, and govern architecture principles, standards, patterns, and reference architectures to promote reuse and consistency across the technology estate.
Enable solution standardization while allowing appropriate flexibility for business needs in a hybrid, global environment.
Partner with engineering, platform, security, risk, and business teams to embed architecture guardrails into delivery processes.
Act as a trusted advisor to senior technology leaders, product owners, and delivery teams.
Support cross functional initiatives that improve enterprise architecture maturity and operating effectiveness.
Support architecture related regulatory and audit requirements by ensuring EA practices meet compliance expectations and are supported by documented processes and artifacts.
Contribute to continuous improvement of EA processes, tooling, and metrics.

Benefits

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)
eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans
inclusive development opportunities
flexible work-life support
paid volunteer days
vibrant employee networks