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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
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Banking & Financial Services
- Insurance
- Consulting & Professional Services
- Healthcare & Medical Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in VP of engineering jobs.
- 10 or more years of engineering experience including at least 3 years in senior engineering leadership
- Demonstrated experience managing and growing engineering teams of 30 or more engineers
- Proven ability to define and execute multi-year technical roadmaps aligned to business strategy
- Deep experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and modern software delivery practices
- Strong cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and executive leadership
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your VP Of Engineering Job Search
Quantify engineering org scale on your resume
Hiring panels for VP roles want to see headcount managed, budget owned, and delivery outcomes tied to revenue or reliability metrics. Replace vague ownership statements with numbers: teams led, systems scaled, and incidents reduced.
Tailor your resume to each company stage
A Series B startup and a public enterprise need different things from a VP of engineering. Seed-stage roles prioritize building from scratch, while growth-stage roles weight process, retention, and org design. Match your resume's emphasis to the company's actual stage.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists vp of engineering openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter openings by tech stack and org size
VP roles at infrastructure-heavy companies often require deep distributed systems credibility, while product-led orgs weight cross-functional collaboration. Narrow your search by the technical domain you've led most recently so your application lands in the right hands.
Prepare a systems design and org narrative
Interviews at this level almost always include a deep technical architecture discussion alongside an org-scaling scenario. Prepare two or three case studies covering a system you redesigned under scale pressure and how you restructured the team to execute it.
Negotiate equity and role scope together
At VP level, the equity grant structure, reporting line, and org scope matter as much as base compensation. Anchor your negotiation around what engineering functions you own, which you'll build out, and the board-level visibility you'll have over technical roadmap decisions.
VP Of Engineering Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most vp of engineerings?
The companies hiring the most vp of engineerings right now include State Street, New York Life, and Credit One Bank, with the largest share of openings in California, New York, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Demand is concentrated in companies scaling through a growth or post-acquisition phase where technical org structure needs to be rebuilt or formalized.
How many vp of engineering jobs are remote?
About 84% of vp of engineering openings are fully remote or hybrid as of September 2026, with the highest remote share in platform engineering, developer tooling, and SaaS infrastructure roles. Product-led and consumer-facing companies are more likely to require on-site presence due to the cross-functional coordination demands of the role.
How do you become a vp of engineering?
Most vp of engineering careers follow a path from senior engineer to engineering manager to director before reaching VP level. The transition to VP requires demonstrating org-level ownership, such as hiring managers, setting technical strategy across multiple teams, and influencing product direction. Building credibility in distributed systems or a core technical domain accelerates that progression significantly.
Can you get hired as a vp of engineering without prior VP experience?
Yes, companies frequently hire first-time VPs from strong director or head-of-engineering roles, particularly at startups that are scaling their engineering org for the first time. The key is demonstrating that you've already operated at VP scope informally, owning roadmap, hiring, and cross-functional delivery, even without the official title. A clear narrative around org impact matters more than the title itself.
What does the vp of engineering interview process look like?
The process typically runs across four to six rounds and includes a recruiter screen, a hiring manager conversation focused on leadership philosophy and org design, a technical depth interview covering system architecture, and a cross-functional panel with product, design, and sometimes finance leaders. A final round with the CEO or CTO is common, and some companies ask for a short strategic presentation on how you'd approach the first ninety days.
Where can I find and apply to vp of engineering jobs?
You can find and apply to vp of engineering jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your background and apply directly to each listing without leaving the platform. The openings are updated continuously, so checking back regularly gives you the best shot at catching new postings early.
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