Who we are looking for
The Head of Developer Platforms & Experience leads the internal product organisation that designs, builds and operates the paved road for software delivery. This is the platform, common libraries, toolchain and automated control plane through which every engineer builds, tests, releases and evidences software.
The mandate is to make the compliant path the fastest path — raising engineering velocity and quality while generating security and audit evidence as a byproduct of normal work. Success is measured not in tools shipped but in delivery outcomes across the firm: faster lead times, lower change-failure rates, demonstrably stronger controls, and materially cheaper enterprise-wide change — most consequentially, create the development velocity and agility that allowsXXXX able to keep our platform secure in the age of Frontier AI security models, and forthcoming quantum cryptography challenges.
This is a deeply technical leadership role. The successful candidate is a credible principal-level engineer who has personally built platforms at scale, and who will lead through technical authority and product discipline rather than positional mandate. They must be equally effective writing an architecture decision record, defending a standard to skeptical business-unit engineering leads, implementing new platforms, and presenting adoption and performance metrics to the Senior Leadership.
Why this role is important to us
latform as product. Developers are customers, not captive users. You run DPX with a roadmap, SLOs, adoption targets and quarterly developer feedback — and you are accountable for adoption you have earned, not mandated.
Paved road, not walled garden. The golden path is the fastest, cheapest, pre-approved way to ship. Teams may deviate through a time-boxed, registered waiver — and inherit the full compliance and support burden of doing so. You make the paved road so good that deviation is rarely rational.
Compliance as code. Controls, segregation of duties, change records and audit evidence are produced automatically by the platform. Regulatory strength is engineered in, not inspected after.
Own the common core. Build multi-language libraries to support core functionality like logging, monitoring, service registration and discovery, event publishing, observability and telemetry, authentication, and secrets management.
What you will be responsible for
Platform strategy & delivery
Design and deliver golden paths — opinionated, pre-approved templates that take a service from scaffold to production with observability, secrets management, security scanning, artefact provenance and event-streaming integration wired in by default.
Stand up and run the internal developer portal (service catalogue, scaffolding, golden-path discovery, documentation).
Co-chair the Technology Standards Board (owned by Enterprise Architecture) and own the engineering recommendations it decides on — approved languages, frameworks, developer tooling, CI/CD, testing and cryptographic-library standards, and their lifecycle status (Adopt / Trial / Contain / Retire). Standards are owned and ratified by EA; you are the authoritative engineering voice that shapes them.
Secure SDLC & Common Core
Jointly own, with the CISO’sorganisation, the Secure SDLC and Common Core engineering capability — pipeline security controls, artefact signing and provenance, SBOM generation, and automated audit-evidence production.
Organisation & leadership
Build, lead and develop a high-calibredeveloper platform organisation, substantially formed by consolidating and re-badging distributed platform and tooling teams, supplemented by targeted external hires.
Stakeholder leadership & influence
Partner closely with Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Security, Compute Platforms, Cloud Platforms, Production Engineering, the Data & AIorganisation.
Education and preferred qualification
Extensive, hands-on engineering career culminating in principal-engineer or senior platform-leadership roles, with demonstrable personal technical depth — not solely management tenure.
Deep expertise across the modern delivery toolchain: CI/CD systems, container orchestration (Kubernetes / OpenShift), infrastructure-as-code, artefact management, and progressive delivery.
Strong command of secure SDLC practice — SAST/DAST/SCA, secrets management, artefact signing and provenance, SBOM — and the ability to partner credibly with security leadership.
Salary Range:
$225,000 - $337,500 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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