Technical/Business Program Manager, Vice President / SSIM

STATE STREET CORPORATION; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Medical, dental, vision

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Performance-based awards

Tax-advantaged savings plans

Job summary

STATE STREET CORPORATION in Boston is seeking a Program Manager to partner with the COO Investment Management Services to deliver strategic initiatives and drive OKRs. You will define, document, and implement program governance across technology and business teams to meet IM requirements and ensure on-time delivery.

The role requires strong leadership, excellent writing skills, and the ability to manage global resources and budgets while coordinating onboarding, testing and migration activities

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Business, Finance or Computer Science.
• Excellent writing skills.
• PMP certification preferred.
• 10 years experience in a large financial institution.

Responsibilities

• Lead governance and execution of strategic initiatives across IM.
• Define program governance with technology and business teams.
• Manage resources, budgets and global program inputs.
• Coordinate onboarding, testing and migration activities.
• Partner with Engineering, Storage, Security, Cloud and Applications teams.
• Maintain project plans, status reports and issue logs.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Communication

Strategic thinking

MS Office

MS Project

Jira

Education

Undergraduate degree

PMP certification preferred

Tools

MS Project

Jira

Clarity

Job description

Responsibilities

• Be the primary face-off with COO Investment Management Services pillars and the IM CAO Strategic Program Management organization - to deliver Strategic initiatives and drive to achieving IM Objective Key Results (OKRs).
• The Program Manager should be able to work with technology and business to define, document and implement appropriate program governance and execution.
• Understand program/project level requirements including the products being used in Investment Management (IM) organizations to determine how they can be leveraged or eliminated.
• Ensuring the target state solution supports IM business requirements.
• Drive the joint and internal governance with all stakeholders. This includes the development and maintenance of project plans, status reports, issue and action logs and scope and requirements documents.
• Ensuring active issue management and facilitating decision-making are critical to the role.
• Manage subject matter experts and project managers supporting workstreams to deliver the end-to-end solution.
• Track resources, hours and hiring for resources, and rolling up globally with inputs from Global teams.
• Compile resource plans and financial program budgets.
• Coordinate application onboarding, testing, and migration activities.
• Partner across technology teams such as: (Engineering, Storage, Security, Cloud, and Application teams) to ensure on-time delivery.
• Manage dependencies across technology teams and workstreams to insure coordinated/successful delivery.

What we value

• Project management experience on large complex technical/functional programs
• Initiative and the ability to work independently or with a team
• Creative problem solving skills
• Strong sense of urgency when performing tasks and projects; ability to respond to shifting priorities
• Leadership and strong communications/relationship-management skills
• Business/Industry knowledge, information technology acumen
• Ability to deliver professional documents - strong knowledge of “off the shelf” (PowerPoint, Excel, Word).
• Strong knowledge of MS Project, Jira and Clarity preferred.

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree – with demonstrated interest in Business, Finance or Computer Science
• Excellent writing skills
• PMP certification preferred
• 10 years experience in large Financial Institution

Salary range

Salary Range: $110,000 - $188,750 Annual The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Benefits

• our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
• insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
• paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities
• access to our Employee Assistance Program
• incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans)
• eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans

About State Street

Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success. We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.

Equal Opportunity Statement

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.

Job Application Disclosure

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