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State Street is looking for a hands-on Application Engineering Agile Room Lead to provide engineering leadership in the build-out, modernization, and enhancement of a large-scale, business-critical Investment Accounting platform. The candidate will work in a dynamic, fast-paced Agile team environment, partnering closely with business and technology teams across global locations.
The ideal candidate will bring deep experience leading software engineering teams responsible for complex enterprise applications, a strong understanding of financial services and investment accounting workflows, and proven success modernizing large-scale legacy systems. The candidate will help drive the evolution of the platform through modernization initiatives, adoption of contemporary engineering practices, and selective use of cloud capabilities where they deliver measurable business value.
What you will be responsible for
As Software Engineering & Development Lead, Vice President you will:
- Lead a software engineering team responsible for enhancing and supporting a business-critical portfolio accounting and middle-office application.
- Drive the planning and execution of application modernization initiatives, evolving a Windows-based Visual C++ platform toward a modern distributed architecture with web-based user experiences and Java-based services.
- Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, architecture, infrastructure, and risk teams to deliver strategic technology solutions aligned with business priorities.
- Translate business and regulatory requirements into scalable, maintainable, and operationally resilient software solutions.
- Oversee solution design, software development, production readiness, and operational stability.
- Lead Agile delivery activities, including release planning, estimation, prioritization, and execution across global teams.
- Mentor engineering talent and foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, continuous improvement, and innovation.
- Communicate technology strategy, delivery progress, dependencies, and risks to senior leadership.
- Evaluate and adopt modern engineering approaches, including AI-assisted development capabilities, automation tooling, and cloud services where appropriate to enhance development efficiency and platform capabilities.
Provide hands-on leadership and support during critical delivery initiatives and complex production challenges.
What we value
These skills will help you succeed in this role:
- Strong understanding of investment accounting, portfolio accounting, financial reporting, and related business processes within the financial services industry.
- Proven experience delivering technology solutions for financial services organizations, particularly in accounting, investment operations, regulatory reporting, or middle-office platforms.
- Extensive experience in enterprise application architecture and distributed systems design.
- Strong programming background in Visual C++ and Java, with demonstrated experience modernizing large-scale legacy applications.
- Database experience with current Oracle DB versions, including SQL, PL/SQL Development, and other Oracle services/features.
- Experience designing and implementing:
- Event-driven architectures
- Microservices and domain-driven design principles
- High-performance and low-latency systems
- Strong understanding of transaction processing, reconciliation, data integrity, and accounting-centric system design.
- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems with high throughput and strong reliability requirements.
- Working knowledge of Azure cloud services and modern DevOps practices, with an understanding of how cloud technologies can support enterprise application modernization.
- Experience using AI-assisted software development tools such as GitHub Copilot or similar technologies to improve developer productivity, code quality, and software delivery effectiveness.
- Strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders.
Education & Preferred Qualifications
These skills will help you succeed in this role:
- 12+ years of experience developing enterprise applications and large-scale data processing solutions.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred.
- Experience working in multi-platform, multi-database, and multi-language application environments.
- Experience leading Agile software delivery teams and adhering to SDLC, governance, and risk management processes.
- Hands-on experience with modern web technologies, including ReactJS or similar front-end frameworks, as well as microservices concepts, including Spring Boot or similar platform.
- Experience designing and delivering enterprise solutions utilizing cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
- Familiarity with cloud-native services, CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, application security, and observability practices.
- Experience with event-driven architectures, microservices, and service-oriented application design.
- Knowledge of modern software engineering practices, including automated testing, DevSecOps, and AI-assisted development workflows.
- Experience within the financial services industry, with exposure to investment accounting, financial reporting, regulatory reporting, or capital markets platforms strongly preferred.
Additional requirements
- Regular collaboration with offshore teams in India and China, as well as management and technical teams on the U.S. East Coast, is required.
- Demonstrated experience leading, motivating, coaching, and developing high-performing engineering teams.
Strong interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to build partnerships across business and technology organizations.
Work Requirement
- Onsite 4 days a week in office and one day remote
- Standard business hours aligned to project and stakeholder needs (8am to 5pm)
Salary Range:
$120,000 - $202,500 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.
About State Street
Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.
We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.
Job Application Disclosure:
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Who we are looking for
State Street is looking for a hands-on Application Engineering Agile Room Lead to provide engineering leadership in the build-out, modernization, and enhancement of a large-scale, business-critical Investment Accounting platform. The candidate will work in a dynamic, fast-paced Agile team environment, partnering closely with business and technology teams across global locations.
The ideal candidate will bring deep experience leading software engineering teams responsible for complex enterprise applications, a strong understanding of financial services and investment accounting workflows, and proven success modernizing large-scale legacy systems. The candidate will help drive the evolution of the platform through modernization initiatives, adoption of contemporary engineering practices, and selective use of cloud capabilities where they deliver measurable business value.
What you will be responsible for
As Software Engineering & Development Lead, Vice President you will:
- Lead a software engineering team responsible for enhancing and supporting a business-critical portfolio accounting and middle-office application.
- Drive the planning and execution of application modernization initiatives, evolving a Windows-based Visual C++ platform toward a modern distributed architecture with web-based user experiences and Java-based services.
- Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, architecture, infrastructure, and risk teams to deliver strategic technology solutions aligned with business priorities.
- Translate business and regulatory requirements into scalable, maintainable, and operationally resilient software solutions.
- Oversee solution design, software development, production readiness, and operational stability.
- Lead Agile delivery activities, including release planning, estimation, prioritization, and execution across global teams.
- Mentor engineering talent and foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, continuous improvement, and innovation.
- Communicate technology strategy, delivery progress, dependencies, and risks to senior leadership.
- Evaluate and adopt modern engineering approaches, including AI-assisted development capabilities, automation tooling, and cloud services where appropriate to enhance development efficiency and platform capabilities.
Provide hands-on leadership and support during critical delivery initiatives and complex production challenges.
What we value
These skills will help you succeed in this role:
- Strong understanding of investment accounting, portfolio accounting, financial reporting, and related business processes within the financial services industry.
- Proven experience delivering technology solutions for financial services organizations, particularly in accounting, investment operations, regulatory reporting, or middle-office platforms.
- Extensive experience in enterprise application architecture and distributed systems design.
- Strong programming background in Visual C++ and Java, with demonstrated experience modernizing large-scale legacy applications.
- Database experience with current Oracle DB versions, including SQL, PL/SQL Development, and other Oracle services/features.
- Experience designing and implementing:
- Event-driven architectures
- Microservices and domain-driven design principles
- High-performance and low-latency systems
- Strong understanding of transaction processing, reconciliation, data integrity, and accounting-centric system design.
- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems with high throughput and strong reliability requirements.
- Working knowledge of Azure cloud services and modern DevOps practices, with an understanding of how cloud technologies can support enterprise application modernization.
- Experience using AI-assisted software development tools such as GitHub Copilot or similar technologies to improve developer productivity, code quality, and software delivery effectiveness.
- Strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders.
Education & Preferred Qualifications
These skills will help you succeed in this role:
- 12+ years of experience developing enterprise applications and large-scale data processing solutions.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred.
- Experience working in multi-platform, multi-database, and multi-language application environments.
- Experience leading Agile software delivery teams and adhering to SDLC, governance, and risk management processes.
- Hands-on experience with modern web technologies, including ReactJS or similar front-end frameworks, as well as microservices concepts, including Spring Boot or similar platform.
- Experience designing and delivering enterprise solutions utilizing cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
- Familiarity with cloud-native services, CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, application security, and observability practices.
- Experience with event-driven architectures, microservices, and service-oriented application design.
- Knowledge of modern software engineering practices, including automated testing, DevSecOps, and AI-assisted development workflows.
- Experience within the financial services industry, with exposure to investment accounting, financial reporting, regulatory reporting, or capital markets platforms strongly preferred.
Additional requirements
- Regular collaboration with offshore teams in India and China, as well as management and technical teams on the U.S. East Coast, is required.
- Demonstrated experience leading, motivating, coaching, and developing high-performing engineering teams.
Strong interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to build partnerships across business and technology organizations.
Work Requirement
- Onsite 4 days a week in office and one day remote
- Standard business hours aligned to project and stakeholder needs (8am to 5pm)
Salary Range:
$120,000 - $202,500 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.
About State Street
Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.
We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.
Job Application Disclosure:
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship in Development Lead
Document your progressive leadership experience
PERM for Development Lead roles typically targets EB-3 skilled worker or EB-2 advanced-degree categories. Compile dated records of team size, project scope, and architecture decisions you owned. Gaps in documented progression can slow your employer's ability to justify the role requirements to DOL.
Search employers through Migrate Mate first
Filter your job search to companies with verified employment-based green card filing history. Migrate Mate lists employers who have sponsored green cards for development roles, so you're targeting organizations that have completed the PERM and I-140 process before, not just ones that say they're open to it.
Look up the prevailing wage before negotiations
Your employer must pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for your SOC code and work location. Use the OFLC Wage Search tool to find the Level III or Level IV wage for software development managers in your city before you discuss compensation, so you aren't surprised during PERM filing.
Ask about priority date strategy during the offer
Before accepting an offer, confirm whether the employer will file your I-140 concurrently with the PERM or after. For nationals of India or China, priority dates in the EB-2 and EB-3 categories can carry significant backlogs, and an earlier filing date translates directly into faster access to adjustment of status.
Review the O*NET profile for your job description
PERM requires the employer to describe the job using DOL-recognized duties and minimum requirements. Cross-check the O*NET profile for Software Development Managers against the job description in your offer letter. Overly customized requirements can trigger a DOL audit or supervised recruitment.
Understand AC21 portability before you sign
If your I-485 has been pending for 180 days or more, AC21 lets you move to a same or similar occupation without losing your priority date. Confirm that the Development Lead role you're accepting is classified closely enough to your petitioned occupation that a future employer change won't void your pending adjustment.
Green Card Development Lead: Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between H-1B sponsorship and green card sponsorship for a Development Lead role?
H-1B visa sponsorship gives you temporary work authorization, typically in two or three-year increments, with no guarantee of permanence. Green card sponsorship through EB-2 or EB-3 means your employer files a PERM labor certification with DOL, then an I-140 petition with USCIS, with the goal of lawful permanent residence. The process is longer but results in a permanent status change rather than a renewable temporary visa.
How do I find employers who have actually sponsored green cards for Development Lead positions?
Migrate Mate lists employers with verified employment-based green card filing history, searchable by role and location. This matters because many companies describe themselves as open to sponsorship without having completed a PERM filing before. Targeting employers with a track record in development or engineering roles significantly reduces the risk that the sponsorship process stalls after you accept an offer.
Does a Development Lead role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3, and how does the employer decide?
Development Lead roles most commonly qualify under EB-2 if the position requires an advanced degree or a bachelor's degree plus five years of progressive experience, or EB-3 for positions requiring a bachelor's degree. The employer and their attorney set the minimum requirements in the PERM job description, and those requirements must reflect genuine business needs rather than being tailored to a specific candidate's credentials.
How does the PERM labor certification process work for a Development Lead position?
The employer starts with a prevailing wage determination from DOL, then conducts a mandatory recruitment test to confirm no qualified U.S. workers are available for the position. If recruitment yields no qualified applicants, the employer files the ETA Form 9089 with DOL. After PERM certification, the employer files the I-140 immigrant petition with USCIS, and you file or await adjustment of status once a visa number is available.
Can I change employers if my green card process is already underway?
AC21 portability applies once your I-485 adjustment of status application has been pending for 180 days or more, allowing you to move to the same or a similar occupation without losing your place in line. Your priority date from an approved I-140 can also carry over to a new employer's petition. These are two separate protections with different requirements, so confirming your situation with an immigration attorney before making a move is advisable.