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Corporate Functions Senior Solutions Architect – VP

State Street · Princeton, NJ · 1 mo ago
Engineering$130k–$213k/yrFull-time

Aim of the Role

We are seeking a senior, hands-on technology leader to serve as the Corporate Functions Senior Solutions Architect – VP III, responsible for defining, scaling, and governing the next generation of AI-enabled platforms across Corporate Functions globally.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define and own the architecture strategy, target-state roadmap, and technology standards for AI-enabled solutions across Corporate Functions.

  • Lead the evolution of enterprise AI capabilities from knowledge assistants and productivity tools into intelligent, workflow-driven AI ecosystems.

  • Develop reusable architecture patterns supporting:

    • Agentic AI
    • Mult-agent orchestration
    • Human-in-the-loop workflows
    • Autonomous workflow execution
    • AI-driven decision support
    • Enterprise tool integration
    • Workflow automation
    • Intelligent process orchestration
  • Establish enterprise standards for scalability, reliability, security, governance, and operational readiness.

  • Define architecture patterns for intelligent agents capable of planning, reasoning, coordinating, and executing business workflows.

  • Design and scale solutions leveraging:

    • Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication
    • Agent orchestration frameworks
    • Tool calling and workflow execution
    • Agent memory and context management
    • Decisioning and escalation workflows
    • Task decomposition and planning
    • Human oversight and exception handling
  • Securely collaborate between intelligent agents, employees, and enterprise systems.

  • Establish governance standards for agent behavior, auditability, transparency, and operational controls.

  • Design architectures that support future AI-native business operating models.

  • Define scalable cloud architecture patterns supporting AI workloads and enterprise platform services.

  • Guide architecture across:

    • Compute services
    • AI model integration
    • Event-driven architectures
    • Messaging platforms
    • API services
    • Serverless architectures
    • Data services
    • Security and identity controls
  • Ensure solutions are engineered for:

    • High availability
    • Disaster recovery
    • Performance optimization
    • Cost efficiency
    • Autoscaling
    • Global deployment
    • Operational resiliency
  • Architect secure integrations between AI platforms and enterprise systems.

  • Define standards enabling intelligent agents to interact with:

    • Workday
    • ServiceNow
    • Microsoft 365
    • SharePoint
    • Databricks
    • Internal enterprise applications
    • External SaaS platforms
    • Vendor-hosted solutions
  • Design reusable API frameworks and event-driven integration patterns.

  • Drive adoption of enterprise integration standards supporting scalable automation and future AI initiatives.

  • Partner with Cybersecurity, Enterprise Architecture, Risk, Privacy, and Compliance organizations to ensure all AI solutions meet enterprise requirements for:

    • Authentication and authorization
    • Identity and access management
    • Data privacy and protection
    • Cryptography
    • Regulatory compliance
    • Audit readiness
    • Operational governance
    • Responsible AI controls
  • Support architecture reviews, risk assessments, cloud governance reviews, and production readiness processes.

  • Define standards for monitoring, logging, tracing, performance management, and operational support.

  • Partner with engineering teams to implement production support models, runbooks, incident management processes, and resiliency testing.

  • Ensure enterprise AI solutions are maintainable, supportable, and scalable in a regulated environment.

  • Serve as a senior architecture authority across Corporate Functions Technology.

  • Lead architecture reviews and provide technical guidance on strategic initiatives.

  • Establish reusable reference architectures, standards, and engineering patterns.

  • Mentor architects, technical leads, and engineering teams.

  • Drive alignment across business, technology, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and vendor partners.

  • Promote a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.

  • Translate complex technical concepts into actionable business recommendations.

  • Influence technology strategy and investment decisions across Corporate Functions.

  • Partner with senior leaders to identify opportunities where AI can improve productivity, employee experience, automation, risk management, and operational efficiency.

  • Communicate architecture tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations clearly to executive stakeholders.

  • Build strong partnerships across global teams and organizational boundaries.

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of experience in enterprise technology, solution architecture, platform engineering, cloud architecture, or AI solution delivery.

  • Proven experience designing and scaling enterprise platforms within large, global organizations.

  • Deep expertise in AI-enabled architecture, agentic AI, enterprise automation, and intelligent workflow orchestration.

  • Hands-on experience designing and implementing multi-agent architectures and AI orchestration frameworks.

  • Experience with modern AI development frameworks such as: LangGraph, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, Crew, AutoGen.

  • Strong knowledge of: Agent orchestration, Tool calling, Agent memory, Context management, Workflow execution, Reasoning and planning frameworks.

  • Experience with cloud-native architecture and AWS platform capabilities.

  • Strong knowledge of cybersecurity, IAM, data protection, encryption, and enterprise governance requirements.

  • Experience leading globally distributed engineering and architecture teams.

  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience building enterprise AI platforms using AWS services including: Amazon Bedrock, ECS/EKS, Lambda, EventBridge, Step Functions, API Gateway, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, RDS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch.

  • Experience deploying and governing enterprise-scale agentic AI platforms.

  • Experience implementing Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication architectures and emerging AI interoperability standards.

  • Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and AI ecosystem integration patterns.

  • Experience supporting intelligent automation across HR, Legal, Audit, Compliance, Risk, or Corporate Functions domains.

  • Experience with Databricks, enterprise data platforms, and modern data architectures.

  • Experience within financial services or other highly regulated industries.

  • Cloud, Architecture, AI, or Security certifications are strongly preferred.

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