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Managing Director - Software Engineering & Development

State Street

State Street

Software Engineering, Operations
Quincy, MA, USA
USD 223,600-325k / year
Posted on Mar 25, 2025

Managing Director - Software Engineering & Development (State Street Bank and Trust Company; Quincy, MA): This senior level technology position manages the work of a team of associates and plays an influential role in improving software architecture quality and associate talent, commitment, and morale. Specific duties of the position include: Provide technology leadership across enterprise shared services products in partnership with senior architects and product managers; Partner with product owners and Application Development managers to create robust technology Roadmaps; Continuously improve the Application Development and support processes; Identify and complete opportunities for automation; Improve internal development and support processes; Meet or exceed commitments to customers, and foster a service attitude; Partner with technology senior colleagues to ensure reliable, efficient daily operating capabilities; Search out and bring innovative, external best practice ideas to all areas of technology delivery, with a particular emphasis on agile development methodology; Ensure Application Development initiatives are well managed and deliver on expectations regarding functionality, timeliness, and cost; Promote agile application development where appropriate; Cultivate a deep bench of technology leadership and technical talent to deliver results and support future growth; Leverage experience with Java, J2EE Enterprise Architect, Java application profiling (Jprobe, JProfile, JConsole), Messaging (WebSphere, Active MQ, JMS, Multicast Framework), UI frameworks (GWT, React Js, GXT, ExtJs), DBMS (Exadata/Oracle, DB2), Service Oriented Architecture, BPM, BRMS, and Cloud (IaaS, PaaS) and reporting frameworks (Datamart, Jasper, Crystal); and Design visual modeling and component construction of enterprise-level software applications using Microsoft Visio, Erwin, and Rational rose. Telecommuting from within the United States permitted pursuant to Company policy.

Minimum Requirements: Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in Computer Science or a related technical field; plus 10 years of experience as a Software Engineer or any job title/occupation providing relevant experience. Alternatively, will accept a Master’s degree or its equivalent in Computer Science or a related technical field; plus 7 years of experience as a Software Engineer or any job title/occupation providing relevant experience.

Total experience must include: 5 years as a senior hands-on technology leader for application development for large and complex financial applications; and 5 years of experience managing a global team of software development and QA engineers. Must Have: Proven ability to provide expert level troubleshooting on large, mission critical project implementations; Proven ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced, Agile team environment; Demonstrated architect-level experience designing and implementing financial applications; Proven ability to advocate and implement best practices and improved team processes; Demonstrated solid ability and prior leadership in driving innovation and thought leadership; Proven solid leadership and interpersonal skills, and people management experience and ability to drive change through collaboration and influence; Proven solid analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities and proven ability to deal with uncertainty and organizational flux in an effective manner; Demonstrated aptitude for learning new and complex environments, processes, and technologies; Experience with implementing new products and improving the existing systems in both monolith and distributed microservices architecture; Proven experience on JMS/Messaging and middleware like IBM MQ/Apache Kafka; Demonstrated strong experience and solid ability with Java SDK 1.8, Java SDK 11, Spring Boot (Embedded Tomcat), REST & SOAP API SOA based Web Services, RESTful Web Services, Spring, MVC, XSD, XML and WSDL, DB & Microservices; and Demonstrated operation experience developing large-scale applications on cloud service (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS) providers (Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure) or Private cloud. (Unless otherwise indicated, State Street is seeking the stated ability in the skills listed above with no specific number of years or amount of experience required. All experience can be gained concurrently.).

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Salary Range:

$223,600 - $325,000 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.

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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