Who we are looking for State Street Alpha is seeking a highly experienced AI Governance Architect to lead the governance, oversight, and responsible adoption of Generative AI, Agentic AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and AI-enabled engineering capabilities across organization. This position offers the opportunity to collaborate with architecture, engineering, cybersecurity, compliance, product, legal, risk management, and FinOps teams to ensure AI solutions align with enterprise governance, security, regulatory, risk, and cost management standards. Ideal candidates bring deep experience in AI governance, cloud platforms, responsible AI, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, and financial services control environments, and are energized by building scalable, secure, auditable, and cost-effective AI practices. Why is this role important to us The team you will join is part of Charles River Development (or CRD), which became part of State Street in 2018. CRD creates enterprise investment management software solutions for large institutions in institutional investment, wealth management, and hedge funds. Together we have created the first open front-to-back platform

• State Street Alpha, that was launched in 2019.

As AI adoption continues to accelerate across financial services, governance, architectural oversight, security, regulatory alignment, cost transparency, and operational discipline are critical to ensuring solutions are secure, compliant, scalable, explainable, and sustainable. This role will lead the responsible evaluation, onboarding, governance, and consumption management of AI solutions and services while helping teams align to enterprise standards, financial accountability, and strategic objectives. What you will be responsible for Policy Adoption and Standards Tailoring

• Evaluate AI technologies and services against enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, regulatory, privacy, operational, and cost management requirements.
• Interpret State Street Enterprise Data, AI and Agentic AI policy and translate it into Charles River standards, control requirements and review criteria.
• Maintain traceability from each enterprise obligation to the Charles River control that satisfies it, its owner and its evidence.
• Represent Charles River in enterprise policy development, ensuring software engineering and cloud operations considerations are reflected.
• Identify where enterprise policy does not fit a software engineering organization and secure agreed positions, adaptations or exceptions. AI Intake, Classification and Approval
• Own intake, classification and approval for AI use across engineering, cloud operations and Charles River business functions.
• Align classification and inventory to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and the enterprise risk taxonomy. Requirements
• Four (4) year degree in a technical field such as Computer Science, Engineering, or another related technical field.
• Four (4) to Twelve (12) years of overall work experience in the world of Financial Technology and application production support.
• Exposure to SQL and fundamental understanding of relational database theory and/or specific knowledge of Oracle/Microsoft SQL Server
• Exposure to one or more structured programming languages Extensive experience in system administration
• system configuration management, resource sharing, operating system fundamentals
• Relevant technical course work and/or technical academic projects.
• Familiarity to using Salesforce for Case tracking is preferred. Knowledge of industry principles and new technologies like cloud computing, virtualization, KAFKA etc. is preferred
• Proven ability to work in a mission-critical production support environment.

Salary Range:

$120,000

• $202,500 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. 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

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