Alpha Implementations - Technology Delivery Lead, Vice President
About The Position
The Alpha Technology & Environment Delivery Lead is a senior implementation and technology leader responsible for driving the successful onboarding of strategic Alpha clients. The role bridges deal, implementation, product, engineering, and client teams to ensure solutions are executable, environments are ready, dependencies are managed, and technology delivery aligns with client commitments. The position combines knowledge of Alpha products, client implementation practices, environment strategy, front-to-back integrations, testing, readiness, and program governance. It serves as a trusted advisor throughout the implementation lifecycle, shaping solutions, resolving technical dependencies, and supporting successful client outcomes. The role also leads technology workstreams for complex onboarding programs, develops environment strategies, coordinates readiness activities, engages with client and executive stakeholders, and advances implementation efficiency through standardization, automation, tooling, and AI-enabled capabilities.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of front-, middle-, and back-office services and integrations.
- Experience managing complex implementation environments.
- Ability to influence teams without direct authority.
- Strong client-facing and executive communication skills.
- Expertise in implementation governance, risk management, and dependency coordination.
- Ability to translate technical complexity into actionable delivery plans.
- 8–15+ years of technology, implementation, or platform delivery experience.
- Experience supporting Alpha implementations, platform migrations, or large-scale onboarding programs.
- Knowledge of Investment Management Services, integration architecture, and testing methodologies.
- Strong program management and stakeholder management skills.
- Proven track record leading complex cross-functional initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Participate in strategic deal reviews, solution assessments, and implementation planning.
- Partner with Sales, Product, Architecture, and Delivery teams to validate solution feasibility, implementation assumptions, and technology dependencies.
- Provide subject matter expertise on Alpha implementation complexity, environment needs, integration requirements, and delivery risks.
- Support estimation and implementation planning for strategic client opportunities.
- Lead technology workstreams for large and complex Alpha client onboarding programs.
- Coordinate activities across front-office, middle-office, and Alpha Services teams.
- Drive program execution through governance, dependency management, risk identification, and issue resolution.
- Ensure technology deliverables align with contractual commitments and implementation milestones.
- Develop program-specific environment strategies for development, testing, client acceptance, and go-live activities.
- Coordinate environment provisioning, configuration, hydration, smoke testing, and readiness activities.
- Act as the primary technology lead for environment-related decisions and escalations.
- Drive consistency and adoption of environment standards and implementation best practices, including integrated and non-integrated Alpha environments, testing strategies, platform hydration, upgrade planning, and readiness management.
- Serve as a senior technology contact for clients during implementation.
- Participate in governance forums, implementation reviews, and executive status meetings.
- Communicate risks, decisions, and recommendations to internal and client stakeholders.
- Build trusted relationships across Technology, Product, Operations, and Client teams.
- Identify opportunities to improve implementation efficiency, environment readiness, and operational scalability.
- Drive standardization of implementation approaches, testing processes, and deployment models.
- Support adoption of automation, tooling, and AI-enabled capabilities that improve onboarding outcomes.
- Contribute to implementation transformation initiatives and continuous improvement efforts.
Benefits
- Retirement savings plan (401K) with company match.
- Insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and optional additional coverages.
- Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family care responsibilities.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Program.
- Incentive compensation, including eligibility for annual performance-based awards, subject to stated exclusions.
- Eligibility for certain tax-advantaged savings plans.
- Inclusive development opportunities.
- Flexible work-life support.
- Paid volunteer days.
- Employee networks.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
