Job Title: Vice President, Software Engineering, Alpha Data Platform
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced engineering leader to help shape and scale Alpha Data Platform, our strategic data platform serving enterprise clients and internal teams.
Alpha Data Platform delivers trusted data that enables faster decisions, greater agility, reduced operational risk, and deeper investment insights.
In this role, you will lead a team of approximately 25 engineers in India and own engineering outcomes for significant areas of the platform. You will partner closely with Engineering, Product Management, Architecture, Client Delivery, Support, and others to build scalable, resilient solutions for complex, mission-critical systems.
This is an opportunity to combine hands-on technical leadership with team development and strategic influence. You will shape architecture, improve engineering execution, and help evolve a platform that supports both State Street and its enterprise clients.
Key Responsibilities
•Own the technical direction and successful delivery of significant Alpha Data Platform capabilities.
•Lead execution across the complete software development lifecycle, from architecture and design through deployment and production support.
•Partner with Product Management to translate business and client priorities into a clear, executable engineering roadmap.
•Design scalable, maintainable solutions for complex enterprise data and platform requirements.
•Guide architectural decisions that improve scalability, performance, resilience, security, and operability.
•Provide technical leadership on complex system-design decisions and critical engineering challenges.
•Build and develop a high-performing engineering team by hiring, mentoring, and growing engineers and team leads.
•Promote engineering excellence through modern development practices, automation, testing, observability, and continuous improvement.
•Collaborate across engineering, architecture, client delivery, and support teams on strategic initiatives and critical client needs.
What we are looking for
Required qualifications:
•Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
•15+ years of software-engineering experience, including experience leading teams responsible for enterprise-scale production systems.
•Strong technical expertise in Java, distributed systems, and database design.
•Demonstrated success designing and delivering scalable, reliable, high-quality platforms.
•Experience with cloud-native architectures, event-driven systems, and modern software-engineering practices.
•Proven ability to hire, mentor, develop, and lead strong technical teams.
•Strong communication, collaboration, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
•Ability to balance strategic technical direction with pragmatic delivery.
Preferred qualifications:
•Experience developing data platforms or other large-scale, data-intensive systems (Strongly Preferred)
•Experience with AI-assisted engineering practices and the thoughtful application of AI within software delivery (Strongly Preferred).
•Experience in financial services.
Why this role matters
You will have the opportunity to influence the evolution of a strategic enterprise platform, develop talented engineering teams, and deliver capabilities that help internal teams and enterprise clients use trusted data to make better and faster decisions.
About Charles River Development
Charles River Investment management System is a platform that provides many Front-Office functions including Portfolio Management, Order Management and Execution, Compliance, Performance & Attribution, Modelling, Scenario Analysis, and Wealth Management.
We are part of the State Street Bank. State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers, and asset intelligence companies in the world. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading, and investment management to institutional clients.
