Alpha Technical Product Development - Data Integration - Vice President

State Street•Boston, MA

About The Position

We are looking for qualified individuals with strong understanding of institutional finance and experience in Business analysis, project management, data analysis/development to transform and automate solutions for client implementation team in the Alpha front-to-back client onboarding platform. Experience in Artificial Intelligence and implementation solutions will be an advantage. Why this role is important to us State Street Alpha combines our unique capabilities in data and analytics to better serve our clients and build relationships with clients. We offer client solutions and implementation services that give our clients new functional capabilities that help develop efficiencies and new technical capabilities. We offer information, data management, and front-to-back office tools plus analytics to help clients achieve results and manage risk. These transformation programs are often multi-year and complex business models and flow across front, middle and back office platforms.

Requirements

Strong Project management skills and the ability to work on multiple initiatives simultaneously
Strong Technical, Business analytical, and business solution design skills.
Critical thinking, problem solving, decision making and relationship management skills.
Proven ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives in matrixed organizations.
Bachelor’s degree or higher in IT, Finance or equivalent.
10+ years of financial industry experience across front office, middle (IBOR) and back office systems, services and data domains.
Proven ability to do digital transformation, automation initiatives and change management.
Experience working with Derivative products (IRS, CDS, FX Swaps, Futures and Options), Fixed-income, Equities.
Experience in any Trading systems, Accounting Systems or Fund Accounting systems.
Experience integrating with other industry software providers to promote platform interoperability (CRD, Bloomberg, MCH, RKS, Portia, Derivative platforms)
Experience in modern development practices, API designs and architecture diagrams
Technical skills SQL, DB Tools, Python, Data warehouse, Snowflake, various data tools, MS Visio, Atlassian Jira, Confluence, Power BI, Tableau, Cognos, Splunk

Nice To Haves

Understanding of Artificial Intelligence solutions and implementation

Responsibilities

Lead data analysis, workflow design, requirement gathering for transformation and automation solutions
Develop and prioritize project tasks for the application development teams.
Oversee and liaison between the business and the technology teams.
Define system scope and objectives based on business users’ needs. Evaluate and do feasibility studies of software development.
Implement Agile Software Development Methodology
Develop project plans, specifying goals, risks, contingency plans, etc. Identify and schedule project deliverables and milestones
Manage various stages of the on-boarding lifecycle (solution design, integration and testing, implementation and BAU hand over).
Contribute to the definition of a standard implementation framework and continuous improvement of the model to drive efficiencies as adoption increases
Manage and support various client implementation events across various regions.

Benefits

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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