What are the responsibilities and job description for the Enterprise Architecture, Vice President position at State Street?
The Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and advancing State Street’s enterprise technology architecture to enable strategic business objectives, regulatory compliance, and long-term platform sustainability. This role shapes current and target state architecture, establishes architecture standards and reference architectures, and influences technology investment and solution design decisions across the enterprise in alignment with State Street’s technology and business strategy.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Architecture Strategy & Target State
$120,000 - $202,500 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.
For a full overview, visit https://hrportal.ehr.com/statestreet/Home.
About State Street
Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.
We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.
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It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Job ID: R-790587
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Architecture Strategy & Target State
- Define and evolve enterprise and domain-level architecture strategies aligned to State Street’s business, risk, and technology goals.
- Research and leverage AI for Enterprise Architecture tasks.
- Develop and maintain current state and target state architecture views to reduce complexity, technology debt, and cost while improving agility and scalability.
- Guide platform convergence and modernization initiatives, including cloud, data, and integration architectures.
- Participate in and support architecture governance forums (e.g., Technology Review Board, New Technology Adoption processes, ATO/ARB) to ensure alignment with approved standards and patterns.
- Evaluate solution designs for compliance with enterprise architecture principles, standards, policies, and regulatory expectations (e.g., FFIEC aligned practices).
- Provide decision ready recommendations to technology and business leaders on architecture trade offs and investment choices.
- Define, document, and govern architecture principles, standards, patterns, and reference architectures to promote reuse and consistency across the technology estate.
- Enable solution standardization while allowing appropriate flexibility for business needs in a hybrid, global environment.
- Partner with engineering, platform, security, risk, and business teams to embed architecture guardrails into delivery processes.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior technology leaders, product owners, and delivery teams.
- Support cross functional initiatives that improve enterprise architecture maturity and operating effectiveness.
- Support architecture related regulatory and audit requirements by ensuring EA practices meet compliance expectations and are supported by documented processes and artifacts.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of EA processes, tooling, and metrics.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 10 years of experience in technology architecture, with enterprise scale systems in complex, regulated environments.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF based practices).
- Demonstrated experience influencing architecture decisions across large, federated organizations.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into executive level insights.
- Experience in financial services or highly regulated industries.
- Hands on experience with cloud platforms, data architectures, and modern integration patterns.
- Familiarity with regulatory expectations impacting enterprise architecture (e.g., FFIEC aligned control areas).
- Experience working within hybrid (central/federated) architecture models.
- Strategic thinking and systems perspective
- Governance and risk aware decision making
- Stakeholder influence without direct authority
- Pragmatic architecture leadership (“guardrails, not gates”)
- Ability to balance standardization with innovation
$120,000 - $202,500 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.
For a full overview, visit https://hrportal.ehr.com/statestreet/Home.
About State Street
Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.
We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.
Discover more information on jobs at StateStreet.com/careers
Read our CEO Statement
Job Application Disclosure
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Job ID: R-790587
Salary : $120,000 - $202,500