Application Development and Maintenance Lead, AVP

Who we are looking for

We are looking for an Application Development Lead, reporting directly to Development Manager. You will be responsible to lead the enhancement, maintenance, and modernization of Insurance applications. This role will act as a technical lead within one or more agile scrum teams, owning components or modules of complex Insurance systems.

The ideal candidate will provide hands‑on engineering leadership, mentor junior developers, partner closely with product owners and architects, and offer advanced troubleshooting support to production support and peer development teams. This role requires strong engineering depth, system‑level thinking, and the ability to influence technical direction across teams.

Why This Role Is Important to Us

• Acts as the first line of technical ownership for Insurance accounting platform, enabling rapid triage and resolution of production incidents impacting clients and operations.

• Ensures client‑critical accounting workflows remain stable by prioritizing fixes based on business impact, risk, and regulatory sensitivity.

• Partners closely with production support and business teams to reduce incident recurrence through root‑cause analysis and permanent remediation.

• Maintains client confidence by balancing fast response times with controlled, low‑risk application changes.

What you will be responsible for

As an Application Development lead, you will:

• Participate in functional and technical requirements gathering, ensuring solutions meet business, scalability, and resilience expectations

• Lead BAU development and maintenance activities, including defect resolution, enhancements and improvements

• Provide hands‑on support for complex production issues, partnering with L2/L3 support teams to perform root‑cause analysis and permanent fixes

• Identify issues and implement solutions to complex, cross‑application problems, addressing performance, reliability, security, and maintainability concerns

• Review and approve design and code changes with a strong focus on risk management and backward compatibility

• Partner with product owners and business stakeholders to guide overall application design and delivery priorities

• Own and maintain technical documentation for implemented code, integrations, and system behaviors

• Facilitate integration across platforms and applications, ensuring consistency and reuse where appropriate

• Collaborate with DevOps engineers to improve CI/CD pipelines, automation, and deployment practices

• Provide engineering and troubleshooting support to production support teams and upstream/downstream development teams

What we value

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to diagnose issues in complex, distributed systems

• Experience leading maintenance or BAU delivery for mission‑critical financial systems

• Strong programming experience in one or more of the following: C++, C# and Java

• Experience in Investment Accounting, Fund Accounting, or Financial Markets with an understanding of asset classes such as Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives. Familiarity with accounting events, valuation, corporate actions, settlement, and reconciliation processes

• Experience working with global, multi‑location teams

• Strong stakeholder management skills, including interaction with senior technology and business leaders

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues to non‑technical audiences

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (BS or higher) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline

• 10+ years of hands‑on software development experience

• Familiarity with Github Copilot

• Demonstrated experience supporting and enhancing large‑scale, multi‑tier financial applications

Work Requirement

• Princeton location onsite- 2 days currently but in future this could change depending on the teams requirement

Salary Range:

$100,000 - $167,500 Annual

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 pr