State Street Corporation

AI Systems Design Architect, Vice President

State Street Corporation$120K — $217K *
Enterprise Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field; Master's degree preferred.
  • 12+ years in solution architecture, including leadership of large-scale initiatives.
  • Deep hands-on experience with Generative AI and associated technologies.
  • Proven expertise in cloud architecture on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
  • Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture and AI/ML services.
  • Experience in designing secure, resilient, and high-performing applications.
  • Knowledge of AI governance, compliance standards, and CI/CD principles.

Responsibilities

  • Own enterprise-wide AI system architecture strategy across the GenAI platform stack.
  • Define and govern architecture principles, design standards, and integration patterns for AI platforms.
  • Provide strategic leadership on scalable and secure AI system design.
  • Lead cloud AI environment architecture decisions ensuring efficiency and operational excellence.
  • Establish reusable enterprise patterns for AI workflows and services integration.
  • Chair architecture governance forums and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align architecture strategy with business priorities.

Benefits

  • Retirement savings plan (401K) with company match.
  • Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical and dental.
  • Paid-time off for vacation, sick leave, and family care.
  • Access to Employee Assistance Program.
  • Eligibility for performance-based incentive compensation, excluding certain roles.
Full Job Description

About the Role

We are seeking an experiencedAI Systems Design Architect (VP)to leadenterprise AI system architecture strategyacross the fullGenerative AI platform stack. This role requires deep expertise inGenerative AI, enterprise architecture, platform engineering, distributed systems, and scalable cloud architectures on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

The ideal candidate will define architecture direction, technology standards, and cloud design principles for AI platforms and shared services across the organization. This role will shape modernization priorities, represent Architecture in senior leadership and governance forums, and ensure AI systems are designed for security, resiliency, compliance, interoperability, and long-term scalability.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own and driveenterprise-wide AI system architecture strategyacross the full GenAI platform stack, including shared services, orchestration layers, model integration, APIs, data flows, and downstream enterprise systems.

  • Define and governreference architectures, design standards, architecture principles, integration patterns, and cloud design approachesfor AI platforms and AI-enabled applications.

  • Provide strategic technical leadership onscalable, secure, resilient, and compliant AI system designacross the organization.

  • Lead architecture decisions forcloud and hybrid AI environments on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, ensuring interoperability, platform reuse, cost efficiency, and operational excellence.

  • Establish reusable enterprise patterns forRAG, model serving, prompt orchestration, agentic AI workflows, AI gateways, and service integration.

  • Chair or lead architecture governance forums, reviewing major solution designs, resolving technical trade-offs, and ensuring alignment to enterprise standards.

  • Partner closely with business leaders, product teams, engineering, cloud, security, risk, data, and operations teams to align architecture strategy with business priorities.

  • Ensure AI solutions comply withResponsible AI, governance, data controls, model risk, testing standards, security requirements, and regulatory expectations.

  • Drive architecture assessments, technical due diligence, platform modernization, proof-of-concept direction, and production onboarding standards for AI systems.

  • Guide enterprise decisions onplatform capabilities, shared services, build-vs-buy evaluations, and modernization opportunities.

  • Influence and mentor architects and engineering leaders to improve design quality, architectural consistency, and adoption of enterprise AI standards.

  • Represent the Architecture function in senior governance and leadership forums.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree inComputer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline; Masters degree preferred.

  • 12 617 yearsof experience insolution architecture, enterprise application architecture, platform architecture, or AI/ML architecture, including leadership of large-scale enterprise initiatives.

  • Deep hands-on and architectural experience withGenerative AI, LLMs, ML systems, RAG, vector databases, prompt design/orchestration, and AI application integration.

  • Proven expertise incloud architecture and enterprise solution design on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

  • Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture includingAI/ML services, networking, storage, security, IAM, resilience, and performance optimization.

  • Proven experience designingenterprise-scale, secure, resilient, and high-performing architecturesfor AI and data-driven applications.

  • Expertise inAPI architecture, microservices, distributed systems, event-driven patterns, enterprise integration, and platform design.

  • Strong understanding ofAI governance, Responsible AI, model risk, compliance, testing, production controls, and control frameworks.

  • Strong understanding ofDevSecOps, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, reliability engineering, and platform engineering concepts.

  • Demonstrated ability to lead architecture discussions with senior executives and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

  • Strong leadership, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Salary Range:

$120,000 - $217,500 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 Streets 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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