VP, Data Solutions Architect for Alpha Platform

STATE STREET CORPORATION; Sydney; On-site; AUD 260,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

State Street Corporation in Sydney seeks a Senior Solutions Architect to lead the ADS client journey across Alpha deployment, from pre-sale through go-live and post-live support. You will drive data platform design, governance, and integration, and guide multi-disciplinary teams for successful deliveries.

You will collaborate with external vendors and internal stakeholders, ensuring the Alpha implementation meets client expectations and delivers measurable business value in a complex financial

Qualifications

• University degree in computer science or data management.
• 12+ years in data management, product and market data roles.
• Experience with asset management data across front, middle and back office.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Support 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, Tracking of Development of any Custom Components, Reviewing Testing Results, Go Live activities and Post Go live hyper care support.
• Collaborate with Client Implementation Executives to align on the Alpha implementation activities and track progress to ensure the solution is delivered to client expectations
• Work with all ADS clients to drive adoption of our data service, leveraging the full suits of our capabilities to drive business process transformation and an enhanced client experience
• Work with all ADS clients on all new requirements; lead the requirements definition, solution design, and provide oversight on the execution and delivery to ensure client expectations are met
• Be the voice of the client, continually assess and contribute to product enhancements, software quality and other improvements that could be implemented to improve the client experience.
• Collaborate 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 change, raise change controls as necessary to maintain the program health
• Collaborate with upstream application and system owners within State Street to integrate into ADP using the standard model
• Partner 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 Platform
• Support 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 resolve
• Establish standard operating procedures and ensure adoption, including any client specific requirements that might be custom bespoke processes.

Skills

SQL

Data governance

Financial services data

Stakeholder management

Azure cloud

Snowflake

Education

University degree in computer science, data management or finance

Tools

Azure

Snowflake

Job description

State Street Corporation in Sydney seeks a Senior Solutions Architect to lead the ADS client journey across Alpha deployment, from pre-sale through go-live and post-live support. You will drive data platform design, governance, and integration, and guide multi-disciplinary teams for successful deliveries.

You will collaborate with external vendors and internal stakeholders, ensuring the Alpha implementation meets client expectations and delivers measurable business value in a complex financial