About this opportunity
Original employer descriptionThe senior technology leader accountable for the strategy, engineering, delivery and operation of the cloud platform underpinning mission-critical investment accounting SaaS products. The role owns infrastructure outcomes end to end, including availability, resiliency, scalability, security, recoverability, performance, cost effectiveness and operational readiness.
This leader will set the platform vision and operating model, direct complex Azure and Kubernetes environments, and ensure that infrastructure capabilities keep pace with product priorities and client commitments. The role serves as the principal liaison between SaaS operations, product management, application development, architecture, cyber security, risk and client-facing teams, translating business requirements into durable engineering outcomes.
Success requires an executive who combines deep cloud-native technical credibility with strong organizational leadership. The successful candidate will build accountable global teams, establish transparent governance, reduce operational risk, accelerate platform modernization and represent cloud platform strategy and service health in senior leadership, client and control forums.
Own the cloud platform as a product, with a clear strategy, roadmap, service model, architecture standards and measurable outcomes.
Drive sustained improvements in resilience, availability, recoverability, performance, security and engineering velocity.
1. Cloud Platform Strategy & Infrastructure Delivery
Define and execute the multi-year cloud platform strategy for Investment Accounting, aligned to product roadmaps, client needs, enterprise architecture and risk appetite.
Own infrastructure delivery from demand intake and solution design through provisioning, validation, release readiness, production operation and lifecycle retirement.
Establish a platform-as-product operating model with defined services, customer experience standards, adoption measures, roadmaps and service ownership.
Lead capacity, performance, scalability and cost planning for complex Azure environments supporting distributed, data-intensive and time-sensitive workloads.
2. Resiliency, Availability & Operational Excellence
Drive multi-region resilience, disaster recovery, backup and restore, failure testing, operational readiness and capacity management practices.
Institutionalize root cause elimination, problem management, resilience engineering, automation and continuous improvement to reduce repeat incidents and client impact.
3. Kubernetes & Cloud-Native Engineering Leadership
Set the technical direction for enterprise-grade Kubernetes platforms, particularly Azure Kubernetes Service, across development, test and production environments.
Govern multi-cluster and multi-region platform patterns, cluster lifecycle management, upgrades, patching, node strategy, workload isolation and platform hardening.
Enable microservice-based applications using standardized patterns for service discovery, ingress, identity, configuration, secrets, API management, event-driven integration and workload scaling.
Guide engineering decisions across containers, distributed systems, networking, storage, observability and platform security, while remaining sufficiently hands-on to challenge designs and lead through complex technical issues.
4. SaaS, Product & Development Partnership
Create joint planning mechanisms that connect product demand, application architecture, platform capacity, non-functional requirements and operational readiness.
5. Azure Architecture, Security & Governance
Provide executive and architecture-level oversight for complex Azure deployments spanning compute, AKS, networking, identity, security, data, integration, monitoring and hybrid connectivity.
Ensure platform designs incorporate private connectivity, least-privilege access, managed identity, secrets management, policy enforcement, encryption, image and runtime controls, and appropriate segregation of duties.
Partner with cyber security, enterprise architecture, risk, compliance and audit teams to meet control expectations for a regulated financial services environment.
6. Engineering Transformation & Automation
Champion automation of provisioning, deployment, scaling, recovery, testing, compliance evidence and operational workflows.
Drive adoption of modern reliability and DevSecOps practices, including progressive delivery, immutable infrastructure, automated quality gates and controlled rollback.
7. Client, Executive & Financial Leadership
Represent Cloud Platform Engineering in executive governance, client service reviews, architecture councils, risk forums and strategic planning discussions.
Provide clear reporting on delivery health, service quality, resilience posture, technology risk, platform adoption and investment needs.
Own platform economics, including budget planning, consumption governance, vendor strategy, licensing, capacity and FinOps practices.
8. Talent & Organizational Leadership
Build, lead and develop a globally distributed organization spanning cloud platform engineering, Kubernetes engineering, DevSecOps, reliability engineering and infrastructure operations.
15+ years of progressive technology experience, including significant leadership responsibility for cloud platforms, infrastructure engineering, SaaS operations or large-scale distributed systems.
Demonstrated success owning mission-critical platforms with demanding availability, performance, security, client and regulatory expectations.
Extensive experience with complex Microsoft Azure deployments, with strong knowledge of AKS, Azure networking, identity, security, monitoring, governance and hybrid integration.
Proven leadership of infrastructure delivery, platform modernization, production operations, incident management, disaster recovery and resilience improvement.
Strong working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, CI/CD, DevSecOps, SRE, observability and automation practices.
Experience defining non-functional requirements and applying architecture patterns for availability, scalability, recoverability, performance and security.
Demonstrated ability to align product, application development, platform, architecture, security and operations teams around shared outcomes.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience leading technology in a regulated financial services environment with mature cyber security, audit, compliance and risk management expectations.
Bachelor's Degree qualified with a financial or analytical discipline preferred, or relevant experience within the financial services industry
Architecture-level familiarity with data-intensive platforms, relational and distributed data stores, event-driven systems, APIs and batch/stream processing.
Experience with tools such as Terraform, Argo CD, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Elasticsearch, OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.
Measurable improvement in availability, resilience, recoverability, incident recurrence, change quality and service performance.
Salary Range:
$170,000 - $282,500 Annual
The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.
Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our 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 (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.
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