About State Street
State Street is a global leader across investment servicing, markets and financing, and investment management. This breath of experience allows us to have a deep understanding of the industry's data challenges, a perspective that has inspired us to develop a data platform that is uniquely oriented to solving both data and business challenges across the front-middle-back office of our clients.
State Street Alpha Data is our next generation enterprise data solution. Comprising both technology and operational servicing components, the Alpha Data offering delivers a consistent view of information across the investment value chain, with easy access to aggregated data, analytics and real time insights.
The Alpha Data Platform centralizes data, ensuring an enterprise-wide single source of truth. Our cloud-based native data warehouse is built on an extensible and scalable data model that captures the breadth and depth of data generated across an organization and from other sources, including internal and external custodians, service providers and data marketplaces.
The Alpha Data Service delivers mission-critical data 'as a service' by deploying professionals globally in a follow-the-sun model. We manage vendor, third-party and client directed data, and deliver business-ready information to support trading, compliance, investment oversight and other functions. We provide streamlined access to reference, pricing, benchmark, holdings and other key data domains.
Job Description Who we are looking for
State Street Alpha Data Service (ADS) is the data-as-a-service provider that is the backbone of the Alpha front to back strategy. Combining both technology and service provision to deliver significant data management value to our clients. We're looking for a candidate to become a Client Implementation Lead.
Why this role is important to us
The team you will be joining is part of a global, cross-divisional group supporting State Street Alpha. State Street Alpha redefines the common definition of 'alpha' to mean powering better performance and outcomes at every point on the investment lifecycle and is the first open platform from a single provider that connects the front, middle and back office. It harmonizes data, technology and services across trusted providers to help our clients better manage their businesses. Join us if making your mark in an ever-changing, increasingly complex and competitive industry is a challenge you are up for.
What you will be responsible for
As the ADS Implementation Lead we are looking for the following:
Be the face of the ADS organization to take the client through the Alpha journey/adoption. The candidate is expected to provide thought leadership to the client during the due diligence and through the entire implementation journey. Act as the ADS Lead for all implementation activities with internal or external stake holdersBe responsible for the end-to-end Implementation of Front-to-Back ("F2B") Alpha Data Platform ("ADP")/ADS solutions to the client, starting with helping with pre contract due diligence, Business Requirements, Solution Design, Environment Setup, Tracking of Development of any Custom Components, Testing Activities, Go Live activities and Post Go live hyper care support. Will manage at least one large client implementation or multiple medium to small clients concurrentlyCollaborate with Client Implementation Executives to align on the Alpha implementation activitiesCommunicate to all stakeholders on status and progress of the overall Implementation Program from ADS perspectiveBe the voice of the client, continually assess and contribute to produce enhancements, software quality and other improvements that could be implemented to improve the client experience.Manage the resources that are working on a client implementation in a matrixed organization, this will include Project Managers, Business Analysts, Testers, Developers and other support staffCollaborate with external vendors as needed for a given client implementation, this will include vendors like Bloomberg, Refinitive, MSCI, Factset, Axioma etc.,Have a strong discipline towards managing scope, raise change controls as necessary to maintain the program healthCollaborate with upstream application and system owners within State Street to integrate into ADP using the standard modelPartner with broader State Street Application/Service Owners to provide solutions in support of any new client requirements that are extension of the standard set of services or in some select cases a client specific bespoke solution including but not limited too; Alpha Services, CRD, Alpha Data PlatformSupport the defect resolution process by collaborating with the development team in understanding the root cause of data issues and ensuring all defects are fixed. Collaborating with all internal technical and business teams including GTS, SaaS Ops, Alpha Cloud Ops, Alpha Platform Engineering, Alpha Product, ADS Product, Alpha Data Ops and clients to resolveEstablish standard operating procedures and ensure adoption, including any client specific requirements that might be custom bespoke processes.
These skills will help you succeed in this role:
Demonstrate excellent communication skills across all channels and levels of recipients including team members, colleagues, clients at all levels including C suite.Demonstrate excellent motivational skills and lead by example in all areas.Influencing the staff in a matrixed organization is requiredSupport a culture of commitment, teamwork and productivity alongside diversity and work life balance.Must have experience in Asset Management Data, Front, Middle and Back Office servicesBusiness Analysis and Project Management skills are a mustExtensive experience with Financial Services data domains - Security Master, Entity Master, Benchmarks, Positions, Transactions, Cash, Performance, Analytics etcMust have proficiency in SQLKnowledge of Data Management, Data Governance, Service Catalogue, Data Lineage tools, Operational Dash boards, Process Monitoring toolsWorking knowledge in Azure cloud platforms and Snowflake is a huge plusKnowledge about internal and external integrations, triage issues and implement/recommend solutions to data problems and anomalies Education & Preferred Qualifications University degree in the field of computer science, data management or other financial services technical field12+ years in data management, product and market data roles and responsibilities
State Street's Speak Up Line
ABOUT COMPANY State Street Corporation London, United Kingdom 39000 Employees Investment Banking / M & AState Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is one of the world's leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, including investment se...
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