State Street Alpha Transaction Management Implementation Lead, Vice President

## Responsibilities - Oversee due diligence activities to ensure a thorough understanding of client requirements and operational environments. - Identify gaps in current operating models and drive the design of client solutions, including trade and architecture flows, operational processes, and business system functionality. - Manage the implementation and onboarding plan, including project timelines, conversion strategies, and post-go-live activities for client onboarding and implementation projects. - Analyze post go-live change requests, collaborating with all stakeholders to define solutions, supervise testing, and oversee deployment in the live production environment. - Drive the delivery of cross-operations, high priority projects across all typical project phases. - Work with external clients and portfolio managers to configure the Alpha platform for client-specific workflows. - Project initiation and scoping, including plan definition and managing realistic expectations for successful delivery with project stakeholders. - Manage business analysis and requirements definition. - Support ongoing project management, including progress monitoring, reporting and quality assurance throughout the project. - Build and manage strong relationships with project sponsors and stakeholders in Operations, Technology and the business, understanding competing priorities across these groups. - Work with Operations business units to assess and streamline processes in order to mitigate risk, cost or service issues and generate efficiencies. - Collaborate with other teams to share approaches, develop best practices and improve team capabilities to successfully migrate clients. ## Requirements - 10+ years of industry experience with front, middle, and back office integration, functionality, and electronic trading platforms. - Strong understanding of Transaction Management Middle Office services and operating models; subject matter expertise in standard financial services static data as it applies to middle office trade processing. - Strong knowledge of financial instruments and asset classes such as Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, and structured products including TBAs and Repos. - In-depth understanding and prior experience with industry utilities such as DTCC CTM, DTCC Alert, FX Connect, other Middle Office vendor applications, and messaging protocols like XML and SWIFT. - Proven history of understanding and analyzing complex client use cases and large data sets; ability to create visual dashboards using tools such as Microsoft PowerBI. - Expertise in Power Query for data transformation, cleansing, preparation, and integration from multiple sources and formats. - Ability to analyze large data sets using Microsoft Co-Pilot is highly desirable. - Ability to interpret client requirements and translate those requirements into State Street-specific data configuration tasks. - Exceptional communication, problem-solving, and analytical skills; attention to detail and organization - able to independently troubleshoot and gather supporting evidence. - Ability to work on multiple projects concurrently and prioritize work accordingly. - Expertise in MS Office, including CoPilot, MS Visio, Project, and PowerPoint. - Competency in SDLC & Agile Methodology and tools (i.e., JIRA, Rally, RTC). ## Nice to Have - Ability to analyze large data sets using Microsoft Co-Pilot. ## Benefits - Employees are eligible to participate in State Street's comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our 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); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.