Technical/Business Program Manager, Vice President / SSIM

What you will be responsible for

As a IM COO Program Manager you will:

• Be the primary face-off with the COO Investment Management Product, Platform and 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 the technology and business to define, document and implement appropriate program governanceThe Program Manager should be able to work with technology and business to define, document and implement appropriate program governance and execution.
• Understand/document requirements including the products being used in 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.
• Drive closure on all aspects of the program with support from the functional teams and SME’s, including: contracts and commercials, scope and solution, project sequencing and planning, development, testing, conversion and post conversion activities.
• Manage subject matter experts and project managers supporting workstreams to deliver the end-to-end solution.
• Lead and support governance meetings - set meeting agendas and document meeting minutes for meetings to discuss progress and address issues to achieve milestones and objectives for the execution of the plans
• Track resources, hours and hiring for resources, and rolling up globally with inputs from Global teams.  Compile resource plans and program budgets.
• Actively communicate the status of work with other team members to ensure that everyone involved is fully informed.
• 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.           
• Identify of project / delivery Risks and mitigation strategies
• Identify conflicts as they arise and engage the appropriate parties to resolve them.
• Define Path to Green when projects are At Risk and/or Off Track, successful management of path to Green

 What we value

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• Project management experience on large complex programs
• Agile certifications; scrum master
• 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
• Experience establishing an organized and structured approach to change initiatives, with a strong awareness of business & technology risk
• 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
• 6-8 years of Financial Services experience

Salary Range:

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.

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: 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); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.

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