Alpha End to End Product Enablement - Managing Director

$170,000 - $267,500/Yr

State Street Corporation - Boston, MA

Full-time - Senior

Boston, MA

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

The Alpha End to End Product Enablement role at State Street involves leading a team to ensure the delivery of comprehensive front-to-back solutions for clients. The position requires strong project management skills, a deep understanding of investment operations, and the ability to navigate complex product organizations to meet client commitments. The successful candidate will collaborate with various stakeholders to design and implement solutions that align with both immediate needs and long-term strategic goals.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of E2E Solution analysts
• Triage and manage cross-product gaps and defects that arise from new client engagements or from clients that are being implemented
• Influence future product and architecture designs via learnings from the field
• Work with clients and internal stakeholders to understand issues that go across product sets and design solutions that will work for immediate implementation while considering the medium and long-term product design and roadmap
• Collaborate with product owners to align short term solutions with long term road maps
• Support business analysis and requirements definition
• Work with Client Solution managers and track client feedback/requests and incorporate in product road map where appropriate
• Work closely with Business, Data and Solution Architecture to ensure alignment with strategic goals and key business decisions regarding products, services and key business initiatives
• Understand the firm's strategic plans, business, process and architecture and apply that knowledge in the solution design
• Work with Global Delivery, Charles River, and back office business units to assess and streamline processes in order to mitigate risk, cost or service issues and generate efficiencies
• Manage demand that would come from clients that are being implemented but also certain BAU clients that are experiencing E2E integration issues

Requirements

• Minimum of 15 years of experience in investment operations, project management, client implementation and/or business analysis
• Demonstrate understanding of Middle/Front/Back office operations, technology, and procedures, and an ability to learn quickly
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, written and oral; confident in interaction with senior stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills including process analysis
• Demonstrate excellent process and project management skills
• Ability to organize, prioritize, balance key tasks and manage time effectively
• Comfortable facilitating project working groups and possesses strong data gathering skills
• Experience integrating with other industry software providers to promote platform interoperability
• Prior experience leading large scale client conversions and onboarding efforts in the financial industry
• Knowledge of products and processes related to the financial services industry would be an advantage

Nice-to-haves

• Extensive knowledge of State Street platforms including Alpha, Charles River, MCH, RKS is desired
• Experience with designing new solutions by analyzing requirements, studying system capabilities, and writing specifications

Benefits

• Generous medical care
• Insurance and savings plans
• Flexible Work Program
• Development programs and educational support
• Paid volunteer days
• Matching gift program
• Access to employee networks