Head of Engineering - Investment Accounting, MD
State Street · Burlington Massachusetts, United States · 2mo ago
The Head of Investment Accounting Engineering will lead the design, development, and operation of a modern,cloud native,scalable investment accounting platform supporting multi-asset class accounting, data management, controls, and reporting across global investment operations.This platform willoperate at global, multi-tenant scale and must support petabyte-scale data processing, high-throughput event handling, and strict financial correctness guarantees. This role is ideal for a seasoned engineering leader with deep expertise incloud architecture (especially Azure), distributed computing,investment accountingcapabilities, data architecture, and enterprise platform modernization withinenterprisecapital markets and asset servicing environments.
The ideal candidate combines strong domain knowledge inenterpriseinvestment accounting (e.g., ABOR/IBOR,event processing,corporate actions, reconciliations, cash management), technical excellence, and strategic leadership toscale teams, processes, andbuild platforms that enable accuracy, scalability, transparency, andauditability.
This leader ownsreliability, scalability, auditability, and cost efficiency as first-class outcomes.
Charles River Development empowers investment firms worldwide with a cloud-based platform that streamlines and automates the investment process across asset classes. As part of State Street Alpha, we bring together data, technology, and services to help clients make confident decisions and scale with agility. Our open ecosystem and global support model enable investment professionals—from portfolio managers to private markets specialists—to navigate complexity and drive innovation. At Charles River, we thrive on collaboration, continuous improvement, and a shared commitment to shaping the future of financial technology.
Key Responsibilities
Define and execute the long-term vision andplatform strategyfor a next-generation investment accountingproduct
Lead engineering teams building accounting platform components including accounting engines, rules frameworks, event processing, reconciliation, and reporting services.
Drive selection and adoption of technologies (e.g., Snowflake, Kafka,Postgres, Kubernetes, Redisor similar) aligned with business requirements and cloud‑native best practices.
LeverageAItools and vendorstodrivebuildsandcreate easilymaintainable systems
Drive adoption of AI-led engineering practices (e.g., agent-based development, automated testing, code generation)
DevelopembeddedAI capabilitieswithinaccounting workflows (e.g., reconciliation, anomaly detection, data access)
Implementcloud-native, event-driven architectures enabling real-timeprocessingcapabilities.
Deliver against tight platform-level SLOs/SLIs for availability, latency, and data correctness, and ensure systems are designed for resilience, fault tolerance, and deterministic processing
Ensure platform incorporates highly automated DevOps, Implementation, Product Security and SaaS operations models
Partner with Product and Operations to define accounting data models, SLAs, and controls.
Lead integration across front, middle, and back-office systems.
Fulfill all banking controls, auditability, and regulatory compliance frameworks.
Build, mentor, and scale a multi‑disciplinary engineering organization attracting top engineers.
Representengineeringstrategy to executive leadership, aligning with firm goals.
Partner withwithFinance, FinOps, and Architecture teams to meet/exceed all budget requirements for the product
Required Qualifications
20+ years of software engineering experience, including 10+ years in investment accounting or financial platforms.
Proven experience delivering large-scalefinance/accountingplatforms.
Deep knowledge of accounting processes, NAV, reconciliations, and multi-asset support.
Experience with cloud-native architectures, APIs, and distributed systems.
Hands‑on background in modern DevOps, Product SecurityandDataOpspractices: CI/CD, container orchestration (Kubernetes), infrastructure automation, and observability.
Hands onexperienceworking withand implementingAItools(LLMs, Agents,etc)
Familiarity with security, regulatoryand compliance frameworks
Strong people‑leadership skills: team building, coaching, and creating high‑performance cultures across geographies.
Experience partnering withmultipleenterprise application teamsin global settingsto deliver end‑to‑end solutions.
Experience working with Finance and Product teams to estimate, gain approval of, and meet budget / P&L targets
Exceptional communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to executives.
Preferred Experience
Experience with enterprise accountingand OMSplatforms such as Aladdin, Geneva, orSimCorp.
Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Familiarity with regulatory reporting requirements.
Experience with large-scale onboarding and migration programs.
Engineering or Finance degree.
Success Indicators
Delivery of performant,scalable, highly automated,andsecureinvestment accounting platform.
Delivery of MVPs across multiple sales models
High degree ofdeployment and supportautomation
Minimized data latency and performance.
Full client adoption and alignment with strategic initiatives.
High-performing engineering team growth and retention.
Clear roadmap execution, cost efficiency, and alignment withProductinitiatives.
Significant acceleration of delivery timelines using AI
Salary Range:
$170,000 - $282,500 AnnualThe 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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