State Street is a global financial services company serving institutional investors through investment management and investment servicing solutions. Its offerings include asset management, custodial services, and investment research, supported by expertise across finance, fintech, and banking. The company focuses on helping clients manage complex investment activities with data, insights, and operational capabilities designed to improve efficiency and support financial decision-making.
State Street VP II Fixed Income Cash Investment Management Engineering & Innovation Lead - Boston Onsite
Lead engineering strategy and innovation for State Street’s fixed-income cash investment platforms. Drive modernization, automation, distributed systems, and global product delivery for institutional asset management.
United States
Massachusetts$120,000 – $202,500 / year
On-siteFull-timeSeniorEnglish RequiredFull-stack EngineerSoftware EngineerDescription
- Set the roadmap and technical direction for fixed-income cash investment platforms spanning liquidity, portfolio construction, credit exposure, repo, trading, compliance, reconciliation, and reporting.
- Modernize platforms through cloud adoption, APIs, event-driven services, shared data products, resilient engineering, and informed build-versus-buy decisions.
- Automate cash-flow aggregation, forecasting, limit checks, order generation, allocations, reconciliation, exception management, and controls.
- Provide reliable, near-real-time visibility into cash, positions, maturities, exposures, limits, and pending orders.
- Use artificial intelligence and machine learning responsibly for decision support, alerts, anomaly detection, and more productive workflows.
- Direct global engineering teams across architecture, development, testing, releases, production support, resilience, and vendor delivery.
- Work with senior business and technology leaders to prioritize investment, manage risk, and communicate results.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, finance, information systems, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 10 years of progressive software engineering and technology leadership experience in asset management, financial services, capital markets, or a related field.
- Deep knowledge of portfolio management workflows and front-office investment platforms.
- A record of leading large engineering organizations and complex platform transformation initiatives.
- Strong software engineering experience, including development with Java, Python, C++, Scala, or comparable enterprise technologies.
- Experience designing, building, and operating enterprise-scale platforms and distributed systems.
- Experience managing globally distributed teams across software engineering, architecture, quality engineering, platform engineering, and production support.
- Ability to define and execute technology strategy while partnering effectively with senior business leaders.
- Strong understanding of modern architecture, APIs, cloud platforms, distributed systems, data engineering, cybersecurity, observability, and production resilience.
- Demonstrated success delivering automation and measurable gains in efficiency, controls, data quality, and scalability.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders, manage strategic partners, and turn investment priorities into an executable technology roadmap.
Benefits
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with company matching.
- Insurance options including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and additional voluntary coverage.
- Paid time off covering vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family-care responsibilities.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Eligibility for annual performance-based incentive awards.
- Selected tax-advantaged savings plans.
- Inclusive opportunities for professional development.
- Flexible support for work-life needs.
- Paid volunteer days.
- Employee networks.