Lead Software Engineer, Vice President

Company: State Street Bank
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this lead role, you will architect and deliver enterprise-grade, client-facing research platforms within our Markets Research technology team. You will push the Insights platform toward cloud-native, scalable, and highly interactive experiences, leveraging Generative UI/UX and AI-enabled features. You’ll partner with cross-functional teams to transform how research products are designed, delivered, and consumed, driving measurable client impact and operational efficiency. This is a hands-on leadership opportunity to shape technology strategy and platform evolution at scale.

Pay / Benefits

  • inclusive development opportunities
  • flexible work-life support
  • paid volunteer days
  • vibrant employee networks

Responsibilities

  • Lead architecture, design and delivery of modern client-facing research platforms
  • Drive cloud-native transformation and highly interactive experiences for the Insights platform
  • Champion Generative UI/UX patterns for dynamic research delivery
  • Design end-to-end solutions across frontend, backend, and data/analytics
  • Translate business requirements into robust, scalable architectures
  • Collaborate with research, product and business stakeholders on client-centric solutions
  • Incorporate data visualization, data analytics and Generative AI features
  • Provide technical leadership to global engineering teams and enforce DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native practices
  • Advise on technology strategy and platform evolution

Key requirements

  • Enterprise-grade, client-facing web applications experience
  • Strong AWS cloud-native architecture, microservices and event-driven design
  • Hands-on frontend expertise (React, Angular, or Vue) with performant, data-driven UIs
  • Backend experience (Python, Java, Node.js) and scalable data pipelines
  • Experience with data/analytics platforms and large-scale data handling
  • Exposure to Machine Learning and Generative AI in products
  • DevOps, CI/CD, production operations understanding
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional technology initiatives and influence stakeholders
  • Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or related field
  • collaboration
  • communication
  • problem-solving
  • React/Angular/Vue
  • Python/Java/Node.js
  • AWS cloud-native architecture

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Posted: September 25th, 2026