Head of Technology Governance & Program Management, Senior Vice President

Who we are looking for State Street seeks to recruit a Head of Technology Governance and Program Management to significantly uplift its independent governance of risk, regulatory program management and remediation while bringing connectivity and consistency of execution through dependency management, transparent reporting and improved overall accountability. The candidate should have experience in understanding of technology organization in a regulated financial services organization, strong program management as well as governance and execution.

This leader will have a broad range of responsibilities to oversee a sustainable governance process as well as clear execution management or strategic remediations programs and large-scale initiatives ensuring their interdependencies are clearly laid out and managed on an agile and iterative basis. This leader will provide clear independent reporting across this portfolio in alignment with organizational standards set by the CAO;

and will tracking and reporting to the organizational leadership as well as official relevant committees and external parties such as regulators and advisors as required.

This role will report into CIO International, Head of GTS Transformation, Risk and Governance Due to the role requirements this job needs to be performed primarily in the office with some flex work opportunities available.

This role will be primarily based in US (preferably Boston) and will consider candidates based in London, UK location. Internal associates will be considered for this role.

What you will be responsible for Specifically this role will be:

This leader will provide independent program execution to all the technology regulatory and risk transformation initiatives across the GTS organization managing interdependencies, critical path item management and ensuring success criteria is met by the required milestones while delivering against a strategic end-state

The role will collaborate closely with the CIO leadership team and second and third line teams and country leaders to ensure there is clear alignment and escalation management on all items

Manage dependencies across programs to ensure no surprises come up and outcomes across a variety of sources and jurisdiction can be achieved through the most effective manner

Provide clear and succinct reporting in alignment with standards set by the CAO office to organizational committees such as CRC, TRC and TORC as well as regulators and BRG and other board committees as required

This role will manage some senior managers that will directly be responsible to turn gap findings into effective remediation plans as well as manage some of those horizontal risk and governance transformation items directly while providing governance to over program managers that exist across the organization

This leader will also manage resources who will ensure continuity of program management and detailed execution planning from findings and next steps that come out of programs such as the MRIA submission to ensure effective remediation plans are in place, and the necessary resourcing across full-time and consulting resources are in place to execute commitments and align items to existing programs

What we value:

A smart, challenging and energetic leader, with a passion and deep understanding of program management across Global organizations.

Ability to manage multiple stakeholders across different organizational lines and manage strong execution against an evolving environment with competing prioritiesA leader, viewed by others has having a high degree of integrity and forethought in making decisions; able to act in a transparent and consistent manner, not afraid to deliver and manage complex and difficult messages

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