Market Surveillance - Solution Delivery, Assistant Vice President, Hybrid

State Street • Boston, MA

5d • $80,000 - $140,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

State Street Financial Crimes Compliance Market Surveillance Organization is seeking an Assistant Vice President (AVP) to lead Solution Delivery efforts in Boston, MA. The Market Surveillance Solution Delivery Team is responsible for surveillance technology solutions for global State Street business units, including State Street Markets, Global Treasury, and State Street Investment Management, enabling them to manage and deliver advanced capabilities in compliance with global regulations. A strong background in trading, particularly FX or equity, is crucial for this role. This AVP will function as an experienced manager, leading a team that supports various strategic and ongoing initiatives, as well as implementation and operationalization activities for the Market Surveillance Team. The role involves liaising with business owners and cross-organization subject-matter experts, collaborating to deliver state-of-the-art technology that reduces risk and ensures regulatory compliance. This may include advanced technologies such as machine learning, natural language understanding, and predictive modeling, with projects spanning trade surveillance (FX, equity, etc.), communication surveillance, and record management initiatives.

Requirements

• Solid background in trading, particularly FX or equity
• Extensive experience delivering solutions in financial services
• Ability to define and implement technology plans and budgets that align with business requirements
• Experience leading and developing project tasks for both tactical and strategic initiatives, including managing testing and integration with vendors
• Skilled in managing multiple vendors, partnerships, and deliverables to drive continuous improvement
• Deep knowledge of products in communications, trade retention, and surveillance, with the ability to leverage emerging technologies
• Ability to identify and solve problems using analysis, experience, and judgment; collect and review data for trend analysis and planning
• Broad and deep knowledge of surveillance technologies
• Understanding of foreign exchange or equity trading
• Experience managing large cloud-based programs
• Bachelor degree in a quantitative discipline (Financial Mathematics, Financial Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field)

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of FX market making business or FX market microstructure
• Any tools such as Actimize, Nasdaq SMARTS, Eventus, SteelEye, SQL, Python/R, Power BI/Tableau, and AI/LLM (can be learned on the job)

Responsibilities

• Define and implement a strategic technology plan, including budgets, to support the business requirements of the organization
• Define, lead, and develop project tasks related to tactical and strategic initiatives
• Lead all business-side testing initiatives and manage consultants and team members to complete testing within agreed-upon timeframes
• Leading integration testing with technology and vendor
• Manage multiple vendors to continuous improvement
• Support Model Validation team to meet regulatory model validation requirement
• Develop a plan and strategy to define business-user administration processes and working with key stakeholders in business technology, Compliance, and Security to implement a solution that meets audit requirements for user access control
• Act as subject-matter expert for all products in the communications and trade retention and surveillance industry to ensure that State Street is best positioned to take advantage of emerging technologies in the industry
• Contribute to program strategy, prioritization, and deliverables planning to include the vision and mission, work plans, and operations policy and procedures
• Manage vendor partnerships and vendor deliverables
• Liaise with key stakeholders across many organization functions, including Enterprise Risk Management, Technology, and Compliance
• Identify and solve problems using analysis, experience, and judgment
• Support the definition and documentation of business requirements for technology and vendor teams’ consumption
• Collect, review, and categorizing data to support trend analysis, research, and planning
• Act as an escalation point for complex issues to proactively identify, research, manage, and resolve issues; facilitating communication with business sponsors and stakeholders, which may cross business units and include offshore partners, as well as outside vendors

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees