IT Planning & Strategy, VP II - State Street Investment Management
About The Position
We are seeking an experienced Sr IT Planning & Strategy Professional to drive technology programs that involve cross-organizational and strategic initiatives including Ai, Infrastructure & Cloud, Security and Regulatory and business initiatives in the Investment Management space. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in overseeing multiple interdependent technology projects, aligning them with strategic business goals including a clear understanding of core technology platform concepts including Microservices, AI Gateways, Data & Analytic OLAP Platforms, Transactional databases including Oracle, AWS architecture, API Gateway, networking, security, automation, and platform architecture. This role will drive to success scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud solutions, working closely with platform engineering division, DevOps, and security teams to ensure alignment with business and compliance requirements. This position requires extensive experience driving to completion investment management technology implementations across IT Architecture and development lifecycle experience in Front and Middle Office. Understanding the investment domain is essential including trade lifecycle through front and middle office, compliance and risk management. Understanding the budget process, ROI and business case construction is also essential. The team you will be joining plays an important role in the overall success of the organization. Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. To make that happen we need teams like yours to help navigate employees and the organization as a whole. In your role you will strive for cutting-edge solutions, that are straightforward and scalable. You will help us build resilience and execute day to day deliverables at our best. Join us if making your mark in the financial services industry from day one is a challenge you are up for.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Or Master’s degree in a technology related field (e.g., Engineering, Computer Science, etc.) required
- 14+ years of IT program and project management
- 3+ years of Cloud program experience
- A technical background with 3 – 8 years in Python or Java as development experience a plus.
- 7+ years of managing with Global Teams
- 5+ years of experience in data projects including relational databases or OLAP
- Excellent knowledge on Public Cloud tech stack
- Prior working knowledge of JIRA and Confluence
- Experience in Agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban) or waterfall
- Deep expertise in overseeing multiple interdependent technology projects, aligning them with strategic business goals including a clear understanding of core technology platform concepts including Microservices, AI Gateways, Data & Analytic OLAP Platforms, Transactional databases including Oracle, AWS architecture, API Gateway, networking, security, automation, and platform architecture.
- Extensive experience driving to completion investment management technology implementations across IT Architecture and development lifecycle experience in Front and Middle Office.
- Understanding the investment domain is essential including trade lifecycle through front and middle office, compliance and risk management.
- Understanding the budget process, ROI and business case construction is also essential.
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience in driving programs migrating application workloads on a cloud provider (AWS, Azure) in financial services would be a plus
- Strong knowledge in planning tools and forecasting
- Practitioner level Certifications on the cloud provider ( e.g,. AWS, Azure) would be a plus
- Extensive presentation experience in large forums
- Extensive experience driving Global teams
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to diplomatically and effectively manage issues across functional teams
- Successful candidate should be enthusiastic, keen to be part of a growing team
Responsibilities
- Manage Application Modernization migration and strategies.
- Lead programs that span across global development locations and understand current state challenges, course correct and drive to completion.
- Work with technical SMEs to help identify creative solutions for technical Challenges.
- Manage conflicts with multiple stakeholders while keeping the project goals in focus.
- Drive cloud solution programs for application teams on their modernization and migration.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
