IT Planning & Strategy, VP II - State Street Investment Management

Who we are looking forWe are seeking an experienced Sr IT Planning & Strategy Professional to drive technology programs that involve cross-organizational and strategic initiatives including Ai, Infrastructure & Cloud, Security and Regulatory and business initiatives in the Investment Management space. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in overseeing multiple interdependent technology projects, aligning them with strategic business goals including a clear understanding of core technology platform concepts including Microservices, AI Gateways, Data & Analytic OLAP Platforms, Transactional databases including Oracle, AWS architecture, API Gateway, networking, security, automation, and platform architecture.

This role will drive to success scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud solutions, working closely with platform engineering division, Dev Ops, and security teams to ensure alignment with business and compliance requirements.

This position requires extensive experience driving to completion investment management technology implementations across IT Architecture and development lifecycle experience in Front and Middle Office. Understanding the investment domain is essential including trade lifecycle through front and middle office, compliance and risk management. Understanding the budget process, ROI and business case construction is also essential.

Why this role is important to usThe team you will be joining plays an important role in the overall success of the organization. Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. To make that happen we need teams like yours to help navigate employees and the organization as a whole.

In your role you will strive for cutting-edge solutions, that are straightforward and scalable. You will help us build resilience and execute day to day deliverables at our best.

Join us if making your mark in the financial services industry from day one is a challenge you are up for.

What you will be responsible forAs Sr IT Planning & Strategy Professional you will

You will be working with GA Application Technology Solutions teams, Cross Organization Architects, Platform engineering.

You will help manage Application Modernization migration and strategies.

You will lead programs that span across global development locations and understand current state challenges, course correct and drive to completion.

You will work with technical SMEs to help identify creative solutions for technical Challenges.

You will manage conflicts with multiple stakeholders while keeping the project goals in focus.

You will drive cloud solution programs for application teams on their modernization and migration.

What we value

These skills will help you succeed in this role Prior experience in driving programs migrating application workloads on a cloud provider (AWS, Azure) in financial services would be a plus Strong knowledge in planning tools and forecasting

Practitioner level Certifications on the cloud provider ( e.g,. AWS, Azure) would be a plus Extensive presentation experience in large forums

Extensive experience driving Global teams

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Ability to diplomatically and effectively manage issues across functional teams

Successful candidate should be enthusiastic, keen to be part of a growing team Education &

Preferred Qualifications Bachelor’s Or Master’s degree in a technology related field (e.g., Engineering, Computer Science, etc.) required
14+ years of IT program and project management3+ years of Cloud program experienceA technical background with 3 – 8 years in Python or Java as development experience a plus.
7+ years of managing with Global Teams5+ years of experience in data projects including relational databases or OLAPExcellent knowledge on Public Cloud tech stack

Prior working knowledge of JIRA and Confluence Experience in Agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban) or waterfall

Salary Range:$120,000 - $202,500 Annual The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary…