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State Street
Boston, Massachusetts; BOSTON
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Role Purpose
The Senior Data Platform Architect is responsible for the end‑to‑end architecture, security design, and governance of SSIM's enterprise data platform spanning Snowflake, Databricks, open data platforms (Iceberg/Parquet/Delta), and data virtualization. Requires previous experience supporting workloads in analytics, regulatory reporting, AI/ML, and batch applications.
The person in this role will ensure the modern platform meets financial‑services regulatory expectations, enterprise security standards (GCS/IAM), and data protection requirements (NPPI/PII). They Will Enable scalable, interoperable delivery across Investment Management use cases.
This role is hands‑on, decision‑critical, and risk‑bearing, with accountability for architectural choices that directly impact regulatory compliance, audit defensibility, and business continuity. Platform Designs must be Secure, Scalable, include Disaster Recovery, as well as Data Sharing capabilities. Design and Build monitoring as well as chargeback models for billing back to application teams.
Core Responsibilities
1. Data Platform Architecture & Integration
Define and govern the hybrid Snowflake–Databricks architecture to support classic Data Warehousing as well as Data Lake designs, aligning Snowflake's governed analytics layer with Databricks' engineering, streaming, and ML capabilities
Establish reference blueprints, patterns using lakehouse and medallion patterns suited for enterprise scale and auditability.
Contribute Designs, Patterns, Assets to SSIM Center of Excellence which establishes Best Practices for each platform as well as use cases for Reuse.
Establish batch performance, cost, and resiliency standards, including Reprocessing, Transaction Rollback, Event Logging, Query Timeout Limits, Warehouse Credit Limits, Finding/Flagging Expensive Processes from Account Usage Tables.
Partner with application owners to retire legacy infrastructure as part of data center exit and cloud migration programs. Previous Redshift, DB2, SQL Server experience is a help for migrating off of these platforms and data conversion issues that arise.
Identify Out of Date Drivers and Application Versions that could be Security Risks, and Advise Applications Teams what to upgrade to, so teams modernize while migrating.
5. Security, Governance & Regulatory Alignment
Architect and enforce data security by design, including: Design RBAC Roles at a Group Level for R, RW, Admin at the DB, Schema, Object Levels. This should balance security needs with what is reasonable overhead to Administrate.
Advise on Lower Level Row Access Policy, Column Masking, Secure Views so App Teams have row‑level and column‑level security where necessary.
Familiar with Establishing Future Grants
Knowledge of Managed Access Schemas and trade offs.
Knowledge of Network Address White Listing.
Knowledge of Cloud Level Roles and Security Integrations and how they enable data access with Snowflake Horizon and Databricks Unity Catalog additional features.
LINUX – Must Know Linux, comfortable with EC2 servers, VI, cat, more etc.
Regulated industry experience – Financial Services, SOX, MRA, audit, NPPI/PII handling
Generative AI – Comfortable with Scripting and prompting. Understand when scripting is going to be more efficient and able to generate good scripts using well defined prompts and skill files.
Good Team and Communication Skills – Being Comfortable and willing to share your knowledge as well as learn from others. Coordinates well with other team members, project managers, and other teams. The World is Accelerating and we are all learning together to navigate the new changes to build Best in Class Platforms.
Compensation
$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.
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