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State Street

Holds assets for institutions and runs index funds

Technical/Business Program Manager - SSIM

Program ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBoston, MA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Project management experience on large, complex programs.
  • Agile certification or Scrum Master certification.
  • Ability to work independently or collaboratively with a team.
  • Creative problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to respond to shifting priorities with urgency.
  • Leadership, communication, and relationship-management skills.
  • Business and industry knowledge and information technology acumen.
  • Experience establishing an organized, structured approach to change initiatives, with awareness of business and technology risk.
  • Strong knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
  • An undergraduate degree, with demonstrated interest in Business, Finance, or Computer Science.
  • Excellent writing skills.
  • Six to eight years of Financial Services experience.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary point of contact with the COO Investment Management Product, Platform and Services pillars and the IM CAO Strategic Program Management organization to deliver strategic initiatives and achieve IM Objective Key Results.
  • Work with technology and business teams to define, document, and implement appropriate program governance and execution.
  • Understand and document requirements, including products used across Investment Management organizations, to determine how they can be leveraged or eliminated and ensure the target-state solution supports business requirements.
  • Drive joint and internal governance with stakeholders, maintaining project plans, status reports, issue and action logs, and scope and requirements documents; actively manage issues and facilitate decision-making.
  • Drive program closure with functional teams and subject matter experts, including contracts and commercials, scope and solution, sequencing and planning, development, testing, conversion, and post-conversion activities.
  • Manage subject matter experts and project managers supporting workstreams to deliver the end-to-end solution.
  • Lead and support governance meetings by setting agendas and documenting minutes to discuss progress, address issues, and achieve milestones and objectives.
  • Track resources, hours, and resource hiring, consolidating inputs from global teams; compile resource plans and program budgets.
  • Communicate work status to team members so everyone involved remains informed.
  • Partner with Engineering, Storage, Security, Cloud, and Application teams to ensure on-time delivery.
  • Manage dependencies across technology teams and workstreams for coordinated delivery.
  • Identify delivery risks and mitigation strategies.
  • Identify conflicts and engage the appropriate parties to resolve them.
  • Define and successfully manage a path to green when projects are at risk or off track.

Desired Qualifications

  • Knowledge of Microsoft Project, Jira, and Clarity.
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

About the Company

State Street

Holds assets for institutions and runs index funds

State Street holds and services investments for pension funds, insurers, fund companies, and other large institutions, and it also runs index funds through State Street Investment Management. It launched the first US-listed exchange-traded fund, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, in 1993, and in 1924 it became custodian of the first US mutual fund. As a custody bank, it safekeeps clients' stocks and bonds, completes their trades, calculates what their funds are worth, and lends their securities to other investors. It earns fees on the assets it services and manages, plus income from currency trading and from interest on client cash. State Street traces its roots to a bank chartered in 1792 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Boston, MA
Founded
1792

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