Business Architect, VP III - Investment Management

Who We Are Looking For

• Are you energized by working in a cross-functional environment, collaborating with diverse business and technology teams to drive meaningful change?
• Do you thrive on solving complex customer challenges and delivering solutions that truly differentiate an organization in the marketplace?
• Are you passionate about understanding customer needs and translating them into innovative business capabilities and platforms?
• Are you excited by the opportunity to institutionalize business architecture and shape the future of investment management through transformative, customer‑centric solutions?
• Do you seek out opportunities to work across product, platform, and service teams, influencing outcomes and building consensus in a dynamic, matrixed organization?

As a Business Architect, VP at State Street Investment Management (“State Street IM”, formerly known as State Street Global Advisors or SSGA), you will play a key role in developing, maturing, and institutionalizing the business architecture function. This role is critical to aligning business capabilities, processes, and operating models with evolving business strategy and will be central to the firm’s transformation toward a Product, Platform, and Service (PPS) operating model.

You will work closely with the Head of Business Architecture, business leaders, solution architects, and technology teams to help the organization transform to a PPS operating model, powered by a strong business architecture strategy that aligns business outcomes to platform and capability roadmaps. This is foundational to establishing an end‑to‑end business platform and business architecture for our overall investment management business.

• Support the establishment and maturation of a scalable business architecture function that enables enterprise‑wide transformation.
• Design and maintain business capability models, value streams, and operating models aligned with strategic objectives.
• Partner with business and technology leaders to ensure alignment between business strategy, operating models, and technology investments.
• Contribute to the adoption of the PPS operating model by embedding business architecture principles and frameworks.
• Provide business architectural oversight and thought leadership for transformation initiatives and strategic programs.
• Develop and maintain business architecture deliverables such as capability maps, value stream diagrams, and investment roadmaps.
• Support strategic planning, innovation, and change management efforts across the organization.
• Collaborate with solution architects, product managers, and delivery teams to ensure business outcomes are realized.
• Mentor and support junior business architects, fostering a collaborative and high‑performance culture.

• 10+ years of experience in business architecture, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, or strategic transformation roles, preferably within investment management or financial services.
• Proven track record of supporting business architecture functions in complex, matrixed organizations.
• Strong expertise in business capability modeling, value stream mapping, operating model design, and enterprise transformation.
• Technical proficiency in solution architecture, including experience collaborating with solution architects on integration patterns, API management, microservices, and composable architecture.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), including cloud‑native solution design, data integration, and security best practices.
• Experience with business capability software catalog tools and relevant governance.
• GenAI expertise preferred: familiarity with generative AI concepts, prompt engineering, responsible AI practices, and integrating AI/ML capabilities into business processes.
• Experience supporting large‑scale transformation initiatives, including PPS or similar operating models.
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, BIZBOK, Archi Mate, or similar.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business strategy into actionable technology and data solutions.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and strategic thinking skills.
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