Alpha – Middle Office Automation/Transformation Lead

Who we are looking for

We are looking for qualified individuals with strong understanding of institutional finance and experience in Business analysis, project management, data analysis/development in order to transform and automate solutions for client implementation team in the Alpha front-to-back client onboarding platform. Experience in Artificial Intelligence and implementation solution will be an advantage.

Why this role is important to us

State Street Alpha combines our unique capabilities in data and analytics to better serve our clients and build relationship with clients. We offer client solutions and implementation services that give our clients new functional capabilities that help drive efficiencies and new technical capabilities.  We offer information, data management, and front-to-back office tools plus analytics to help clients achieve results and manage risk. These transformation programs are often multi-year and complex business models and flows across front, middle and back office platforms.

What you will be responsible for

As Alpha Professional Automation Lead you will.

• Drive Artificial Intelligence solutions for all onboarding platforms
• Lead business analysis, workflow design, data analysis, requirement gathering for transformation and automation solutions
• Develop and prioritize project tasks for the application development teams.
• Oversee and liaison between the business and the technology teams.
• Define system scope and objectives based on business users’ needs. Evaluate and do feasibility studies of software development.
• Implement Agile Software Development Methodology
• Develop project plans, specifying goals, risks, contingency plans, etc. Identify and schedule project deliverables and milestones
• Manage testing team and testing software solutions
• Manage various stages of the on-boarding lifecycle (solution design, integration and testing, implementation and BAU hand over).
• Contribute to the definition of a standard implementation framework and continuous improvement of the model to drive efficiencies as adoption increases
• Manage and support various client implementation events across various regions.

What we value

• Strong Project management skills and the ability to work on multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Artificial Intelligence solutions and implementation
• Strong Business analytical, Technical and business solution design skills.
• Critical thinking, problem solving, decision making and relationship management skills.
• Proven ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives in matrixed organizations.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in IT, Finance or equivalent.
• 12+ years of financial industry experience across front office, middle (IBOR) and back office systems, services and data domains.
• Proven ability to do digital transformation, automation initiatives and change management.
• Experience working with Fixed-income, Equities, derivatives and OTC’s financial products.
• Experience in any Trading systems, Accounting Systems or Fund Accounting systems.
• Experience integrating with other industry software providers to promote platform interoperability
• Experience in modern development practices, API designs and architecture diagrams
• Technical skills with AI development/solutioning, Python, Data warehouse, Snowflake, various data tools, MS Visio, Atlassian Jira, Confluence, Power BI, Tableau, Cognos, Splunk

Salary Range:

$130,000 - $205,000 Annual

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

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