Data Workflow Analysis & Optimization, VP II - State Street Investment Management

Role Overview The VP II, Data Workflow Analysis & Optimization will lead the design, documentation, analysis, and optimization of data governance and data operations workflows across business, data product, and technology domains. This role will help improve how the organization documents data lineage, manages metadata, identifies and resolves data fragmentation, defines data quality capabilities, and embeds scalable controls into modern data platforms.

The role will play a critical part in advancing a more unified, automated, and platform-enabled data operating model, with a focus on improving transparency, control effectiveness, audit readiness, and business trust in critical data assets. The individual will partner closely with Data Governance, Data Operations, Data Platform Engineering, Data Product, Architecture, Risk, Compliance, Privacy, and business stakeholders to simplify processes and leverage artificial intelligence and emerging technologies to change the way work is performed.

Key Responsibilities Data Workflow Analysis & Optimization
• Analyze current-state data workflows across governance, operations, platform, and business domains to identify inefficiencies, manual handoffs, fragmentation, duplication, and control gaps.
• Design and document future-state workflows that improve consistency, scalability, accountability, and operational efficiency.
• Establish standard methods for workflow documentation, process mapping, requirements capture, issue escalation, and operational measurement.
• Partner with global stakeholders to simplify and standardize data-related processes across domains, platforms, and regions.

Data Lineage & Metadata Management
• Design and manage processes for documenting business and technical data lineage across critical data assets, applications, platforms, and data products.
• Define standards for lineage capture, review, maintenance, impact analysis, and evidence production.
• Support metadata management practices including business glossary, ownership, stewardship, data classification, and asset inventory processes.
• Partner with data stewards, architects, engineers, and platform teams to improve traceability from data ingestion through consumption.

Data Fragmentation & Rationalization
• Identify fragmentation, inconsistency, duplication, and unnecessary complexity across data stores, reports, applications, controls, and business processes.
• Develop recommendations to rationalize workflows, reduce redundant data movement, improve reusable data product adoption, and align with target-state platform strategy.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Engineering, and Product teams to support consolidation, standardization, and modernization initiatives.

Data Quality Capability Development
• Create business and functional specifications for data quality capabilities, including rule design, monitoring, exception management, remediation workflow, scorecards, and control reporting.
• Partner with domain stakeholders to define data quality expectations, thresholds, business impact, severity, and accountability models.
• Support implementation of repeatable data quality processes that connect issues, root causes, remediation activities, and executive-level reporting.
• Drive continuous improvement in the quality, completeness, timeliness, and usability of critical data assets.

Governance, Privacy, Access & Compliance Controls
• Ensure workflow designs align with data governance policies, internal control expectations, privacy requirements, information security practices, and audit disciplines.
• Embed data privacy controls, access controls, data classification, evidencing, and compliance considerations into data workflows and platform capabilities.
• Partner with Risk, Compliance, Audit, Legal, Privacy, and Information Security teams to support control design, control evidence, and issue resolution.
• Promote clear ownership, stewardship, accountability, and operating discipline across data lifecycle processes.

Platform, Tooling & AI Enablement
• Support the design and adoption of governance capabilities across modern data platforms and data management tools, including Databricks Unity…