Head of AWS Cloud Platforms, Managing Director

Who we are looking for

We are seeking a senior technology leader to head AWS Cloud Platform Engineering within State Street’s broader Cloud Platforms organization. As a core component of our Technology Platform Engineering and Operations (TPEO) function, this role will report directly to the Head of Cloud Platforms.

Our cloud platforms serve as the backbone for business innovation, enabling secure, scalable, and resilient digital capabilities across the firm. The successful candidate will partner closely with senior leadership to shape and execute strategic plans, while engineering and operating best-in-class AWS platforms that are secure, highly performant, and resilient in support of our business strategy.

This Managing Director will serve as a pillar leader within the Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE), translating enterprise strategy into AWS-specific platform capabilities. The role is accountable for ensuring consistent execution of platform standards, controls, and product offerings across the firm while driving a product-centric, platform-as-a-service mindset.

This leader brings:

• Deep AWS platform engineering expertise

• Strong product mindset (platform-as-a-product, service catalog, developer experience)

• Proven ability to create and scale high performing global engineering organizations in regulated environments

Why this role is important to us

State Street’s cloud platforms are foundational to delivering modern, resilient financial services.

The AWS Cloud Platform:

• Is a core component of the firm’s multi-hybrid cloud strategy

• Enables application modernization, developer velocity, and operational scale

• Must operate with strong governance, security, and regulatory compliance

This role ensures AWS platform capabilities:

• Align to enterprise platform strategy

• Are delivered consistently as reusable, scalable platform products

• Continuously improve in reliability, risk posture, developer experience, and cost efficiency

What you will be responsible for

1) AWS Platform Strategy Execution & Product Ownership

• Execute the AWS platform strategy aligned to the enterprise cloud roadmap

• Own and evolve the AWS platform roadmap and service catalog, ensuring alignment with multi-cloud standards

• Single threaded ownership of AWS cloud platforms with a product mindset.

• Drive adoption of platform services across application teams with clear business value
  o    Establish and track metrics across: 
  o    Platform adoption
  o    Developer experience
  o    Reliability and performance
  o    Cost optimization

2)  Governance & Compliance (Aligned to Enterprise Standards)

• Own delivery and evolution of the AWS landing zone, consistent with enterprise guardrails and Cloud Security Alliance’s Cloud Control Matrix (4.0)

• Proactively identifying and managing risks in the environments and driving hygiene in the environment through appropriate preventative and detective controls

• Implement and enforce: 
  o    Policy-as-code controls
  o    Logging, monitoring, and compliance baselines
  o    Multi-account governance and provisioning

• Ensure AWS platform remains audit-ready and aligned to global regulatory expectations

3) Platform Engineering & Developer Enablement

• Build and operate AWS platform products enabling self-service consumption:

  • Compute, storage, networking, observability, and integration patterns

• Deliver automation-first capabilities:

  • Infrastructure-as-Code

  • CI/CD enablement

  • Zero click-ops provisioning

• Partner with application and product teams to:

  • Translate demand into standardized patterns

  • Improve developer productivity and reuse

4) Operational Excellence & Platform Reliability

• Own AWS platform operational health and resilience

• Lead:

  • Incident management and root cause elimination

  • SLO/SLA definition and adherence

  • Resilience and DR/BCP readiness

• Ensure strong observability, telemetry, and operational transparency

5) Financial Stewardship & Vendor Management (FinOps Alignment)

• Manage AWS platform cost model, consumption, and optimization

• Partner Finance/FinOps on:

  • Budget alignment

  • Cost transparency and efficiency

•  Identify; build and nurture strategic partnerships with AWS and other third-party service providers to enhance platform capabilities and align to latest innovations in the market

6) Organization Leadership & Delivery Model

• Lead a global high performing AWS platform organization including:

  • Platform engineering

  • SRE / operations

  • Architecture

• Drive:

  • Engineering excellence and automation-first culture

  • Clear accountability across engineering and operations

  • Alignment with enterprise governance and decision frameworks

What we value (skills that will help you succeed)

• Proven experience leading large-scale AWS platform engineering organizations

• Strong alignment to platform-as-a-product operating model

• Deep expertise in:

  • AWS landing zones and multi-account architecture

  • Identity, networking, and security controls

  • Observability and operational tooling

• Demonstrated ability to:

  • Deliver in regulated financial environments;

  • Proven experience of working with global regulatory bodies like FRB, FCA, PRA, MAS etc around cloud controls and compliance

  • Balance speed, risk, and compliance

  • Align engineering execution to enterprise strategy

• Strong stakeholder management across:

  • Technology, Risk, Audit and Security

  • Lines of Business

  • Enterprise architecture and governance

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent (CS, CE, CIS, IS, MIS, or engineering discipline) or equivalent work experience

• 15+ years overall IT industry experience with at least 5+ years in a role driving Cloud Strategy or Cloud platform engineering in a highly regulated financial services institution with a minimum of 3 years in a leadership role

• Extensive working knowledge with AWS Well versed with foundational constructs around Compute, Networking, Security and Storage

• Experience with Entra as an IDP; Cloud Posture Management Tools like JupiterOne, Wiz; SIEM tools like Splunk.

• Experience with IaC tools like Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD tooling viz Jenkins; Harness and other DevSecOps tooling.

• Deep working knowledge of NIST 800-53, Cloud Security Alliance(CSA) Cloud control matrix (CCM 4.0), NIST CyberSecurity framework and knowledge of regulatory frameworks like GDPR, DORA etc

• Proven execution experience using Agile methodologies.

• Product Management experience will be an additional plus.

Salary Range:

The range quoted above applies to the role in the location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the 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.

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