What you will be responsible for
As Data Engineering Lead you will:
- Lead the design, development, and deployment of solutions across use cases such as document processing, intelligent agents, and automation frameworks
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into data-driven workflows using modern orchestration tools
- Promote responsible practices including security, compliance, and explainability, while ensuring robust deployment
- Establish reusable frameworks, evaluation pipelines, and scalable components to accelerate adoption and maintain consistency
- Prioritize initiatives, manage delivery timelines, and align efforts with enterprise goals
- Define and evolve data architecture patterns for fund accounting, custody, and reference data domains, ensuring clear lineage from source systems through consumption layers
- Partner with business and technology stakeholders to model complex investment data concepts, including NAV, positions, transactions, cash, income, corporate actions, securities, accounts, and party/reference data
- Establish scalable data models, integration standards, and quality controls that support accurate accounting, custody servicing, reconciliation, regulatory reporting, and client-facing data delivery
- Drive architecture decisions that balance domain expertise, data governance, performance, security, and reuse across enterprise data platforms
What we value
These skills will help you succeed in this role
- Solid understanding of modern data engineering concepts and emerging technologies
- Experience with Python and relevant libraries such as FastAPI, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Pandas; Java experience is a plus
- Familiarity with distributed systems, orchestration tools, and API integration
- Strong foundation in software engineering principles including OOPS, design patterns, data structures, and algorithms
- Ability to manage and support multiple workflows or agents in parallel
- Awareness of responsible technology principles and practices, including fairness, transparency, and safety
- Experience building reusable components, libraries, and frameworks to accelerate development
- Comfort using tools like Fiddler and Postman for API development and debugging
- Deep understanding of fund accounting, custody, and reference data domains, with the ability to connect business concepts to scalable data architecture
- Strong data modeling skills across positions, transactions, cash, income, securities, accounts, and party/reference data
- Experience designing data lineage, data quality, reconciliation, and governance controls for regulated financial services platforms
- Ability to balance domain knowledge, engineering discipline, platform reuse, and client delivery needs in architecture decisions
- A proactive mindset with the ability to work independently and guide teams under general supervision
Education & Preferred Qualifications
Bacheloror advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field,
Overall 12 + years in IT delivery including 3+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML and data engineering, with a strong foundation in enterprise-scale solution development
Strong hands-on expertise in Python, Apache Spark, PySpark, and Databricks for large-scale data processing and AI model development
Proven ability to design, deploy, and evaluate machine learning and generative AI models using platforms such as OpenAI, Hugging Face, Azure OpenAI, and orchestration tools like LangChain
Solid understanding of AI evaluation frameworks, responsible AI practices, and experience building reusable libraries and scalable pipelines
Effective communicator and collaborator with experience influencing cross-functional teams and stakeholders in complex, regulated environments
Work Requirement
- John Adams Building, North Quincy, MA
- 9 to 5 PM EST
Salary Range:
$120,000 - $217,500 Annual
The range quoted above applies to the role in the location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the location above, the applicable range could differ.
Employees are eligible to participate in State Streetcomprehensive 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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