Principal Data Platform and Software Engineer, VP III

State Street

Principal Data Platform Engineer at State Street Investment Management instigating architectural solutions and leading engineering teams to enhance investment capabilities.

Posted 4/17/2026full-timeQuincy • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $120,000 - $217,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonSDLCSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead an agile engineering team to deliver solutions that address evolving business and client needs
Partner with global teams to deliver cross-border initiatives
Coach and mentor engineers, promoting a culture of continuous learning, accountability, and high performance
Define and own platform architecture, including data ingestion and consumption services, transformation and master data management (MDM) capabilities, and catalog-based data governance
Design and lead the implementation of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
Evaluate and advance the use of agentic AI frameworks to improve software delivery across the full software development life cycle (SDLC)

Requirements

What you’ll need

Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline
15+ years of technology experience in the financial services industry
Demonstrated hands-on experience designing and implementing modern, open-architecture data platforms supporting OLAP, OLTP, and near real-time workloads
Extensive hands-on experience architecting and implementing enterprise DevOps and CI/CD pipelines,
Strong proficiency with modern data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks) and programming languages (e.g., Python, SQL)
4+ years of experience working with unstructured data sources
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Demonstrated ability to deliver results with strong attention to detail

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

data ingestiondata transformationmaster data managementDevOps practicesCI/CD pipelinesagentic AI frameworkssoftware development life cycleOLAPOLTPunstructured data

Soft Skills

leadershipcoachingmentoringcontinuous learningaccountabilityhigh performancecommunicationattention to detail

Certifications

Master’s degree in Computer Science