State Street
AI Systems Design Architect - Assistant Vice President
Quincy, Massachusetts, USA · Exec
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~45% per draw at Level III). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$12,128 more — $102,128 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $102,128 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Architects, Except Landscape and Naval" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Architects, Except Landscape and Naval (17-1011) · Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Salary Range: $90,000 - $157,500 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.
- For a full overview, visit https://hrportal.ehr.com/statestreet/Home.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end architecture and system design for a major AI platform domain, including model integration, orchestration, APIs, data flows, and downstream system interactions.
- Define and implement reference architectures, design standards, integration contracts, and non-functional requirements (NFRs) for the platform area.
- Translate business and product requirements into scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable AI solution designs.
- Partner with business stakeholders, product managers, engineers, data scientists, platform teams, and security teams to deliver enterprise-ready AI systems.
- Design solutions leveraging cloud architecture principles on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, ensuring interoperability, scalability, observability, and operational readiness.
- Conduct architecture assessments, technical design reviews, and proof-of-concept evaluations for new AI use cases and platform capabilities.
- Review solution designs across pods and provide guidance on architecture decisions, trade-offs, and standards adherence.
- Partner with engineering and DevSecOps teams to support production readiness, release architecture, monitoring, and scalability planning.
- Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability.
Requirements
- 8-14 years of experience in solution architecture, enterprise application architecture, platform architecture, or AI/ML architecture.
- Strong hands-on experience with Generative AI, LLMs, ML systems, RAG architectures, vector databases, and AI application integration.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native services including compute, storage, networking, identity and access management, security, and AI/ML services.
- Expertise in API architecture, microservices, distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and system integration patterns.
- Experience designing solutions with strong security, resiliency, scalability, observability, and performance considerations.
- Working knowledge of AI governance, Responsible AI, model risk, compliance, testing, and operational controls.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline; Master's degree preferred.
Nice to have
- Master's degree preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline
Compensation
- $90,000 - $157,500 Annual
- incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans)
Company info
- 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.
Visa & Work Authorization
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