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Who we are looking for
We are seeking a strategic technology leader to serve as Vice President, Core Accounting Application Development and Maintenance.
This leader will be responsible for helping us modernize our technology stack for our global Accounting distributed applications, delivering mission-critical systems that support back office accounting for our internal and external clients.
The successful candidate will manage development of multiple applications and oversee technology execution, engineering, delivery and modernization. They will drive innovation through cloud-native architectures, data and AI capabilities, automation, and modern engineering practices, while ensuring operational resilience, regulatory compliance, and exceptional client outcomes.
This application manager will partner closely with business, product, operations, risk, and enterprise technology leaders to accelerate growth, modernization, improve scalability and productivity, and enhance the overall client experience.
Why this role is important to us
The team you will be joining is part of Global Technology Services (GTS) , which delivers enterprise technology capabilities that support State Street’s global businesses. Within GTS, this role is aligned to the Accounting value stream. The position plays a pivotal role in shaping technology strategy and execution, ensuring solutions are built for reliability, scalability, and strong controls while meeting stringent regulatory, operational, and client expectations.
What you will be responsible for
- We are looking for a candidate who is highly motivated, energetic, and technologically savvy.
Securities Valuation Leadership
- Execute the technology strategy and roadmap for Core Accounting aligned to business priorities, client needs, and enterprise objectives.
- Drive application architecture, platform simplification, cloud adoption, and technology lifecycle management across the portfolio.
- Ensure delivery excellence through highly resilient, scalable, secure, and efficient technology solutions.
- Accountable for platform stability, operational resiliency, service quality, regulatory adherence, and achievement of business and client outcomes.
- Partner closely with Product, Risk, and Client-facing teams to enhance capabilities, enable new products, support client growth, and improve competitive differentiation.
Transformation & Innovation
- Drive adoption of cloud-native architectures, modern engineering practices, data platforms, and automation capabilities across the application.
- Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, continuous learning, and technology excellence.
What we value
These skills will help you succeed in this role:
- Expertise building and operating highly resilient, cloud-native technology platforms.
- Strong knowledge of modern application architectures, artificial intelligence, public cloud technologies, DevOps practices, automation, and software engineering excellence.
- Strong domain expertise in Accounting.
- Deep understanding of technology risk, cybersecurity, controls, and governance frameworks.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influence across the organization.
- Strategic mindset with a demonstrated ability to translate vision into execution and measurable business outcomes.
Education & Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
- 10+ years of technology leadership experience, including significant experience within financial services.
- Proven track record delivering application solutions for our business partners.
- Experience operating effectively and managing across multiple geographies.
Additional Requirements
- Experience with Public Cloud
- Experience with the C++, J2EE, PL/SQL, Perl and Shell scripting, Java web development.
- Exceptional stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
- Willingness to engage across multiple regions and time zones.
Work Requirement
- Hybrid with minimum 4 days in office
- 8:00 AM to 5 PM
Salary Range:
$120,000 - $202,500 AnnualThe 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.
For a full overview, visit https://hrportal.ehr.com/statestreet/Home .
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.
Discover more information on jobs at StateStreet.com/careers
Read our CEO Statement
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
We are seeking a strategic technology leader to serve as Vice President, Core Accounting Application Development and Maintenance.
This leader will be responsible for helping us modernize our technology stack for our global Accounting distributed applications, delivering mission-critical systems that support back office accounting for our internal and external clients.
The successful candidate will manage development of multiple applications and oversee technology execution, engineering, delivery and modernization. They will drive innovation through cloud-native architectures, data and AI capabilities, automation, and modern engineering practices, while ensuring operational resilience, regulatory compliance, and exceptional client outcomes.
This application manager will partner closely with business, product, operations, risk, and enterprise technology leaders to accelerate growth, modernization, improve scalability and productivity, and enhance the overall client experience.
Why this role is important to us
The team you will be joining is part of Global Technology Services (GTS) , which delivers enterprise technology capabilities that support State Street’s global businesses. Within GTS, this role is aligned to the Accounting value stream. The position plays a pivotal role in shaping technology strategy and execution, ensuring solutions are built for reliability, scalability, and strong controls while meeting stringent regulatory, operational, and client expectations.
What you will be responsible for
- We are looking for a candidate who is highly motivated, energetic, and technologically savvy.
Securities Valuation Leadership
- Execute the technology strategy and roadmap for Core Accounting aligned to business priorities, client needs, and enterprise objectives.
- Drive application architecture, platform simplification, cloud adoption, and technology lifecycle management across the portfolio.
- Ensure delivery excellence through highly resilient, scalable, secure, and efficient technology solutions.
- Accountable for platform stability, operational resiliency, service quality, regulatory adherence, and achievement of business and client outcomes.
- Partner closely with Product, Risk, and Client-facing teams to enhance capabilities, enable new products, support client growth, and improve competitive differentiation.
Transformation & Innovation
- Drive adoption of cloud-native architectures, modern engineering practices, data platforms, and automation capabilities across the application.
- Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, continuous learning, and technology excellence.
What we value
These skills will help you succeed in this role:
- Expertise building and operating highly resilient, cloud-native technology platforms.
- Strong knowledge of modern application architectures, artificial intelligence, public cloud technologies, DevOps practices, automation, and software engineering excellence.
- Strong domain expertise in Accounting.
- Deep understanding of technology risk, cybersecurity, controls, and governance frameworks.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influence across the organization.
- Strategic mindset with a demonstrated ability to translate vision into execution and measurable business outcomes.
Education & Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
- 10+ years of technology leadership experience, including significant experience within financial services.
- Proven track record delivering application solutions for our business partners.
- Experience operating effectively and managing across multiple geographies.
Additional Requirements
- Experience with Public Cloud
- Experience with the C++, J2EE, PL/SQL, Perl and Shell scripting, Java web development.
- Exceptional stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
- Willingness to engage across multiple regions and time zones.
Work Requirement
- Hybrid with minimum 4 days in office
- 8:00 AM to 5 PM
Salary Range:
$120,000 - $202,500 AnnualThe 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.
For a full overview, visit https://hrportal.ehr.com/statestreet/Home .
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.
Discover more information on jobs at StateStreet.com/careers
Read our CEO Statement
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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Who's Hiring
- WSP24
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in VP engineering jobs.
- 10 or more years of progressive software engineering experience including at least 3 in people management
- Demonstrated experience managing engineering managers and building multi-team organizations
- Proficiency with cloud infrastructure and modern software delivery practices such as CI/CD and agile
- Experience owning engineering roadmap planning in partnership with product and business stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field
- Familiarity with security, compliance, or regulatory requirements relevant to the company's industry
Tips for Your VP Engineering Job Search
Quantify engineering org scale explicitly
Hiring panels for vp engineering roles want to see team size, budget ownership, and hiring volume on your resume. If you led a 60-person org through a reorg or owned a $12M headcount budget, say so in concrete numbers rather than vague scope language.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists vp engineering openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Tailor your resume to company stage
A Series B startup and a public enterprise look for fundamentally different vp engineering profiles. Early-stage listings emphasize building from scratch, while late-stage roles stress process, compliance, and cross-functional alignment. Adjust your resume bullets to mirror the stage language in each job description.
Prepare a systems design narrative
Most vp engineering loops include at least one architecture or systems design discussion aimed at evaluating judgment, not just technical knowledge. Prepare a concise story about a system you shaped, the tradeoffs you weighed, and the outcome, and practice delivering it in under five minutes.
Negotiate equity alongside base in offer stage
VP Engineering offers at growth-stage companies often include a meaningful equity component that varies widely by stage and funding round. Before your final call, research typical vesting structures and cliff terms for the company's stage so you can negotiate the full package, not just base compensation.
Follow up with a written leadership thesis
After a final-round interview, send a short written summary of your engineering leadership philosophy and how it maps to the company's current challenges. This differentiates you from candidates who only follow up with a thank-you note and reinforces your strategic fit.
VP Engineering Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most vp engineerings?
The most active employers for vp engineerings right now are WSP, Goldman Sachs, and State Street, and the most openings are in California, Texas, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Demand is consistent across fintech, healthtech, and enterprise SaaS companies at the growth and scale stage.
How many vp engineering jobs are remote?
About 72% of vp engineering openings are fully remote or hybrid as of September 2026, reflecting strong demand for distributed leadership. Platform engineering, developer tooling, and infrastructure-focused vp roles tend to be the most remote-friendly, while consumer product and hardware-adjacent roles more often require on-site presence.
How do you become a vp engineering?
Most vp engineering careers follow a path from senior individual contributor to engineering manager, then to senior manager or director, then to VP. The transition from director to VP typically requires demonstrated success managing other managers, owning cross-functional roadmap decisions, and building or scaling a team through a significant growth or change cycle.
Can you get hired as a vp engineering with limited leadership experience?
It's uncommon to land a vp engineering role without prior people management experience, but early-stage startups occasionally hire strong senior engineers into the role when the org is small. In those cases, demonstrating technical credibility, clear thinking on team structure, and a concrete hiring plan can offset a shorter management history.
What does the vp engineering interview process look like?
A typical vp engineering interview process includes a recruiter screen, a hiring manager conversation focused on leadership philosophy and org design, one or more technical or systems design discussions, cross-functional conversations with product or design partners, and a final executive or CEO round. Reference checks are common at the VP level and often carry significant weight.
Where can I find and apply to vp engineering jobs?
You can find and apply to vp engineering jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the roles available, find the ones that match your experience and goals, and apply directly to each listing from the same page.
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