Alpha TLM Product Architect and Strategy, Vice President

State Street•Quincy, MA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

State Street’s Alpha Services Solutioning and Product Team is looking for an Alpha TLM Product Architect and Strategy-Transaction Lifecycle Management, Vice President. This qualified individual will develop and deliver product, business solutions and strategy aligned with our Alpha Transaction Lifecycle Management vision. This leader will focus on driving front, middle and back-office service innovations that support and streamline end-to-end integration, servicing and interoperability for our Alpha clients, across our Transaction Management product suite. State Street Alpha brings together data and capabilities across the investment lifecycle to help our clients make better decisions, grow at scale, and deliver returns for their clients. We partner with clients to optimize their operations, data, and technology footprint by leveraging the Alpha Platform and outsourced Alpha Services. The successful candidate must be skilled in analyzing our complex business service flows across front, middle, and back office operating models for our Alpha Clients, with focus on post-trade execution lifecycle product and services. They will define and drive the execution of our long-term business strategy, internal business cases, and TLM product solutions. They will also lead due diligence with our clients and vendors, driving the strategic solution design, TLM product architecture, and business solutions/services, whilst driving program/project execution and reporting.

Requirements

Need to demonstrate expertise and deep knowledge of Middle office services and specific to listed products in the market including complex products such as Repos, TBA, ETD, Mutual funds and others
Strong knowledge of existing State Street organizational constructs and teams required, in addition to deep business acumen across middle and back-office systems, functions and services supported at State Street
Strong industry experiences inclusive of complex business process and instruments best practices across transaction lifecycle –Required working knowledge of financial products Bonds, Equities, FX orders/executions, listed derivatives and others
Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills including expressing complex ideas and concepts
Ability to multitask and navigate competing priorities, drive client expectations and deliverables to project milestone dates
Ability to think creatively and strategically with a focus on achieving outcomes
Excellent analytical skills, time management and organizational skills – with ability to manage multiple competing priorities
Expertise in MS Office including MS Visio, MS/Project and PowerPoint
Competency in SDLC & Agile Methodology and tools (i.e. JIRA, Rally, RTC)
Understanding of Alpha TLM business systems & financial industry to support projects through their life cycle, with the emphasis on the design architect/analysis stage
A BA/BS degree in a business including Finance, Economics, Engineering or Computer Science.
Experienced in driving architecture, design and delivery of transactional data and processing platform using Agile practices and processes, with a focus of establishing continuous delivery, culture and process
Minimum 10 years’ experience as an Analyst/Architect lead or related experience, driving solution design and successful executions of complex projects

Responsibilities

Design and implement client agnostic solutions that support and streamline end-to-end transaction servicing and interoperability for our Alpha clients
Drive the end-to-end product design solution for large projects for Alpha TLM; requirements gathering cross platform coordination for optimal design and delivery.
Understand/drive and execute on Alpha’s strategic plans, business/service architecture within Transaction Management domain
Establish strong partnerships with project business teams and stakeholders in Operations, Technology and various product teams within the State Street to influence and coordinate cross-functional business solutions and products, in support of client and business goals
Act as liaison between business and technology teams to support product demand opportunities as part of the Transaction Management product strategy and development
Experienced in driving analysis, design and delivery of transactional data and processing platform using Agile practices and processes, with a focus of establishing continuous delivery, culture, and process
Create detailed and accurate documentation of business requirements, process flows, and project deliverables including project charter deck, architecture diagrams, project tracker, RAID log
Participate in special projects, e.g., conducting research, collecting, and providing requested data, etc.
Need proficiency in charter deck drafts, presentation, strong communication skills along with complex problem solving and attention to details.

Benefits

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)
eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans
inclusive development opportunities
flexible work-life support
paid volunteer days
vibrant employee networks