Global custodian and investment platform serving institutional clients across 100+ markets
State Street operates a 50,000-person institutional finance platform spanning custody, fund accounting, trading, and asset management—a business model requiring tight alignment across finance, operations, and engineering teams. Current hiring is finance-and-ops-heavy (952 of 1,704 roles), with accelerating velocity, while the tech stack reveals an active migration: moving from Temenos Transact, Oracle ERP Cloud, and Oracle EPM Cloud toward modern components (React, Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, Kafka). The pain-point profile is compliance-dominated—regulatory reporting, audit deadlines, data governance—which explains why automation, client onboarding, and system conversion are the dominant project areas.
Notable leadership hires: Head of Production Management, Derivatives Transformation Lead, Digital Sanctions Lead Analyst, Head of Platforms, Head of Sales
State Street is a global financial services custodian and investment manager headquartered in Boston and active in over 100 markets. The firm holds the #1 position in ETF servicing and operates a comprehensive suite of capabilities: custody and fund accounting, index and active investment management, multi-asset trading, FX solutions, and research services. With over 200 years of operating history and a current workforce of 50,000+ employees, the company serves institutional investors through integrated front-to-back platforms. The organization is undergoing significant technology modernization, replacing legacy ERP and core banking systems with cloud-native infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and GCP while adopting JavaScript-based frontend frameworks and Kafka-based event streaming.
State Street uses Jira, Java, SQL Server, Oracle, Kafka, React, Angular, Azure, AWS, GCP, Snowflake, Workday, ServiceNow, Charles River IMS, and BI tools including Power BI, Tableau, and Spotfire. Currently adopting TypeScript, Node.js, and Redux; replacing Temenos Transact and Oracle ERP/EPM Cloud.
State Street is actively hiring across 24 countries including the United States, United Kingdom, India, China, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Poland, and Japan, among others.
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