Vice President – Application Development & Architecture (Integration Services) - VP
About The Position
State Street's Integration Services is seeking a seasoned Vice President – Application Development & Architecture to lead strategic engineering initiatives, enterprise integration platforms, and next-generation application modernization programs. The successful candidate will drive technology strategy, solution architecture, and delivery execution across critical business and technology domains while leading global engineering teams responsible for enterprise-scale platforms. This role requires a blend of technical leadership, architectural expertise, delivery management, and people leadership. The candidate must possess deep experience building and modernizing distributed applications, driving cloud adoption, establishing engineering standards, and partnering with business and technology stakeholders to deliver scalable, resilient, and secure solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline.
- 12+ years of technology experience with at least 5+ years leading application development and engineering teams.
- Proven experience managing enterprise application portfolios and large-scale technology programs.
- Strong leadership experience managing global and distributed engineering teams.
- Demonstrated success driving modernization and cloud transformation initiatives.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related field.
- Financial Services or Capital Markets experience.
- Experience leading enterprise integration and architecture organizations.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, development, and support of enterprise-scale applications and integration platforms.
- Define and execute technology modernization roadmaps aligned to corporate and business objectives.
- Establish architecture standards, reusable frameworks, engineering best practices, and governance processes.
- Drive adoption of cloud-native architectures, APIs, event-driven solutions, and modern engineering practices.
- Manage end-to-end application delivery across multiple technology workstreams.
- Partner with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Architects, and Engineering teams to deliver strategic initiatives.
- Oversee agile delivery processes including backlog management, sprint planning, estimation, code reviews, and release governance.
- Ensure adherence to SDLC, security, risk, compliance, and audit requirements.
- Design scalable, resilient, and highly available multi-tier solutions.
- Drive implementation of reusable platforms, metadata-driven frameworks, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Ensure solutions incorporate observability, monitoring, performance optimization, and operational readiness.
- Lead architecture reviews and solution governance across strategic programs.
- Build, mentor, and manage high-performing engineering teams across multiple locations.
- Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
- Develop succession plans and support career growth for engineering talent.
- Collaborate effectively with senior leadership, business stakeholders, and external partners.
- Drive platform stability, resiliency, performance, and availability objectives.
- Establish KPIs, service-level objectives, and operational metrics.
- Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Ensure effective risk management and regulatory compliance.
Benefits
- 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
- eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans
- inclusive development opportunities
- flexible work-life support
- paid volunteer days
- vibrant employee networks
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
