State Street Investment Management (“State Street IM”) is seeking an Architecture and Engineering Governance Lead to drive the execution and scaling of the firm’s architecture and engineering governance framework, with a focus on AI-driven and agentic software development lifecycle (SDLC)
Operating within the Architecture & Engineering Governance function, this role is responsible for translating enterprise governance frameworks into actionable practices, ensuring that architecture standards, SDLC controls, and AI governance guardrails are consistently embedded into engineering delivery workflows
This role plays a key part in advancing a control-by-design operating model, aligning to three core pillars:
The role ensures that AI and agentic capabilities are delivered at scale with strong governance, transparency, and risk alignment, supporting both innovation and regulatory compliance.
Key Responsibilities
Governance Execution & Delivery
Execute and operationalize the enterprise architecture and engineering governance framework across programs, products, and platforms.
Run architecture governance forums, design reviews, and lifecycle checkpoints, ensuring decisions are aligned to enterprise standards.
Drive consistent enforcement of architecture guardrails, SDLC controls, and engineering standards across delivery teams.
Support escalation and resolution of architecture deviations, design trade-offs, and compliance gaps
AI-Driven SDLC Governance (Build)
Embed governance controls across the end-to-end AI-enabled SDLC, including requirements, design, development, testing, and deployment.
Drive adoption of continuous governance within CI/CD pipelines, ensuring controls are automated and embedded into delivery flows.
Support implementation of standardized control points, including AI-assisted development, testing validation, and release approvals.
Partner with engineering teams to ensure governance is applied at inception (“shift-left”) rather than post-delivery
Agentic Governance & Control Enablement (Automate)
Support governance of agentic AI use cases, including autonomous workflows and multi-agent systems.
Help implement bounded autonomy and decision controls, ensuring agent actions operate within defined policies and access constraints.
Contribute to the implementation of an agent control plane, enabling:
Assist in governing multi-agent orchestration workflows, ensuring appropriate controls across action chains and system interactions.
Platform and Solution Governance
Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, reference architectures, and platform strategies
Promote use of standard platforms and reusable capabilities, reducing fragmentation and technical debt.
Validate that designs meet security, resilience, performance, and cost expectations
Support implementation of governance telemetry and observability across AI and engineering systems, including:
Contribute to development of centralized governance dashboards / command center capabilities, improving transparency and oversight across AI and SDLC.
Support continuous testing, validation, and monitoring practices to ensure production readiness and resilience.
Risk, Compliance & Audit Support
Ensure governance practices align with enterprise risk frameworks and regulatory expectations for AI and technology delivery.
Support exception management, audit readiness, and remediation tracking for governance-related issues.
Partner with Risk, Security, and Compliance teams to ensure AI and SDLC controls are consistently applied and evidenced
Cross-Functional Alignment & Enablement
Partner closely with Business Architecture, Solution Architecture, Engineering, QA, and Risk teams to embed governance into delivery.
Provide guidance and enablement to engineering teams on governance expectations, standards, and tools.
Help drive adoption of governance practices through training, tooling, and developer experience improvements
Metrics & Continuous Improvement
Track and report on key governance metrics, including:
Required Qualifications
10–12+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, software engineering, or technology governance.
Strong experience in architecture governance, SDLC controls, or design assurance practices
Solid understanding of modern SDLC, DevSecOps, and cloud-based delivery models
Familiarity with AI-enabled development and associated governance considerations
Experience working in regulated environments with risk and compliance oversight
Strong collaboration and influence skills within matrixed organizations
Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
Exposure to AI/agentic systems, multi-agent workflows, or AI governance frameworks
Familiarity with CI/CD-based governance automation and developer tooling ecosystems
Experience with platform-based architectures and distributed systems
Understanding of risk frameworks such as NIST AI RMF or Financial Services AI risk practices
Experience supporting large-scale technology or operating model transformations
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 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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