State Street

Tech Lead, Vice President

State Street
Posted 10/20/2026full-timeQuincy • Massachusetts • United StatesSenior💰 $120,000 - $217,500 per yearWebsite
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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in leading cloud migration and modernization initiatives, with a strong focus on AWS services, microservices architecture, and AI-assisted software development. Proven ability to manage engineering teams, implement secure coding practices, and deliver high-quality software solutions in regulated financial environments.

Highest-signal resume keywords
AWS Cloud MigrationJava/Spring Boot DevelopmentMicroservices ArchitectureAI Coding AssistantsCI/CD and DevSecOps

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudJavaKafkaMicroservicesOracleSpringSpring BootSpringBootVaultC++

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead engineering for a multi-year programme modernizing and migrating middle-office applications to AWS
  • Lead a team rebuilding critical applications as cloud-native AWS services
  • Set standards for microservices, event-driven integration, containerization, and Oracle data design
  • Own technical delivery plans, estimates, release quality, cutover, parallel runs, and handover to run teams
  • Design and run an AI-assisted software development lifecycle for reverse engineering, specification generation, code conversion, testing, and documentation
  • Select and orchestrate AI tools and build reusable agent workflows, prompt libraries, knowledge graphs, vector databases, and MCP integrations
  • Track and report AI productivity and quality metrics to leadership
  • Implement human review checkpoints, audit trails, secure-coding gates, data classification, and approved-tool controls
  • Ensure AI-extracted business rules are validated by subject-matter experts and reconciled before go-live
  • Hire, coach, and grow a permanent cloud-native engineering team
  • Build AI fluency across the engineering team and wider organization
  • Manage vendors and temporary capacity and transfer knowledge to permanent staff
  • Collaborate with Architecture, Platform, Data, QE, and application support teams

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 12+ years in software engineering
  • 5+ years leading large engineering teams on complex modernization or cloud migration programmes
  • Strong hands-on experience with Java/Spring Boot, microservices, REST, Kafka/IBM MQ, and AWS (ECS/EKS, IAM, networking)
  • Practical experience using AI coding assistants and agents in delivery, with measurable results
  • Experience migrating legacy stacks such as COBOL, C/C++, PowerBuilder, and Sybase to modern platforms
  • Experience with database migration to Oracle
  • Working knowledge of CI/CD and DevSecOps, including Harness or similar
  • Experience with secrets management, including Vault/CyberArk
  • Experience with observability
  • Experience delivering in a regulated financial services environment with strong change and control requirements
  • Knowledge of investment servicing or middle-office areas preferred
  • Experience building MCP servers, knowledge graphs, or retrieval-augmented context for engineering agents preferred
  • AWS Professional-level or equivalent certification preferred
  • Ability to work hybrid with a minimum of 4 days in office
  • Availability from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
  • Basic life insurance
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Long-term disability insurance
  • Optional additional insurance coverages
  • Paid vacation
  • Paid sick leave
  • Short-term disability
  • Family care leave/responsibilities support
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Annual performance-based incentive compensation
  • Certain tax-advantaged savings plans
  • Inclusive development opportunities
  • Flexible work-life support
  • Paid volunteer days
  • Employee networks

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Hard Skills
JavaSpring BootMicroservicesRESTKafkaIBM MQAWS ECSAWS EKSOracle Database MigrationDatabase Migration
Soft Skills
Team LeadershipCoachingCollaborationCommunication
Tools & Technologies
AI ToolsCI/CD ToolsSecrets ManagementVaultCyberArkObservability Tools
Certifications & Qualifications
AWS Professional-level Certification
Industry Keywords
Financial ServicesMiddle-office ApplicationsChange ManagementRegulated EnvironmentInvestment Servicing