COO Investments Global Head of Front Office Re-Engineering, Senior Vice President - State Stree

Who We Are Looking For

State Street Investment Management is seeking an accomplished senior engineering and transformation leader to serve as Global Head of Front Office Re-Engineering, Senior Vice President, based in either Boston or London office. Reporting to the Global Head of Investments and Business Services within the COO organization, this is a hands‑on engineering leadership role accountable for enterprise execution, solution architecture, and modernization of front‑office technology supporting a ~$6T global asset manager across equities, fixed income, multi‑asset, and alternatives.

The leader will drive scalable, resilient, secure, and data‑enabled capabilities across portfolio management, trading, real‑time investment data/IBOR, risk, analytics, and AI‑enabled engineering. This leader will execute a multi‑year modernization strategy defined by the Global Head of Investments and Business Services in partnership with senior Investments, Technology, Operations, Risk, and Data stakeholders. The role will build and manage a distributed global engineering organization across India, the United States, and EMEA, translating strategic priorities into executable roadmaps, modern platforms, adoption at scale, and measurable business outcomes.

The front office is central to how State Street Investment Management generates insights, constructs portfolios, executes investment decisions, manages risk, and delivers outcomes for clients. As the investment platform evolves, this engineering role will be critical to simplifying and scaling multiple portfolio management platforms, reducing fragmented data and workflow complexity, strengthening real‑time investment data foundations, and enabling AI at scale for investment engineering teams.

The successful candidate will bring strong front‑office engineering depth, enterprise execution discipline, solution architecture capability, design thinking, and a design‑for‑failure mindset. This role requires a proven delivery track record, strong understanding of AI‑enabled engineering, and a player‑coach leadership style that combines strategic influence with hands‑on technical engagement.

• Own enterprise execution of front‑office re‑engineering priorities, translating the multi‑year strategy into scalable platforms, resilient operations, measurable adoption, and business outcomes across all asset classes.
• Execute technology strategy and investment priorities established by the Global Head of Investments and Business Services with senior stakeholders, maintaining accountability for delivery outcomes, adoption, risk reduction, and value realization.
• Drive solution architecture and design thinking across the investment platform, applying API‑first, event‑driven, cloud‑native, shared‑services, design‑for‑failure, and resilient engineering patterns.
• Build a high‑performing distributed global engineering organization across APAC, North America, and EMEA through talent development, succession planning, workforce modernization, engineering standards, and a player‑coach leadership model.
• Lead engineering disciplines aligned to portfolio management, trading, investment data including real‑time IBOR, risk, analytics, platform modernization, and AI‑enabled software delivery.
• Drive adoption of SDLC‑led AI capabilities to improve engineering productivity, software quality, testing automation, developer experience, and delivery predictability.
• Simplify and scale multiple portfolio management platforms, reduce fragmented data and manual workflows, and establish reusable engineering capabilities that enable AI at scale for investment teams.
• Provide executive‑level transparency on delivery progress, architecture trade‑offs, adoption, productivity gains, key risks, funding needs, and measurable enterprise outcomes.

• Enterprise execution leadership with the ability to influence investment executives, technology leaders, and cross‑functional stakeholders while driving adoption and accountability.
• Strong front‑office engineering expertise across portfolio management, trading, investment data, real‑time IBOR, risk,…