Business Analyst

Implementation Business AnalystState Street Alpha Data Services organization is seeking individuals with subject matter expertise spanning a wide array of financial instrument types and working knowledge of Asset Management Data Domains to join our team.Senior Implementation Business Analysts are at the heart of continued growth of our Alpha Data Services offering. These energetic, self-motivated individuals collaborate with clients and Business, Data and Technology Solution Architecture leads at State Street and Charles River on a daily basis to articulate business requirements, navigate dependencies and drive innovative enhancements that empower our architecture to support new and more robust Front, Middle and Back Office managed data services - allowing our clients to focus on generating revenue for their core business.What you will be responsible for:Contribute to the integration of new data services and sources by participating in requirement gathering, testing and support of newly developed features as part of the Product's scaled agile teams.Work as a member of the Client Implementation Team with the Development teams as well as the Project Manager to help establish project delivery plans and delivery estimates for projects involving integration of client middle or back-office data.Guide Clients on required reference data and other setups and mapping as part of initial client implementationsDefine and maintain standards around data ingestion, enrichment and validation of client portfolio data into our Enterprise Data Management solutionPerform in-depth analysis of the functional capabilities inherent to our existing and emerging data platformDocument product specifications and prepare business cases to drive development in scaled agile rooms.Capture on-going enhancements to scope of services for existing clients as needed into roadmap.Create and maintain client facing documentationMaintain an excellent working knowledge of the service offering to perform Subject Matter Expert activities: consultancy, implementation configuration and demonstrationsEducation and Preferred Qualifications:Bachelor's degree or above.10+ years in depth knowledge across all asset types and types of accounting data (Fixed Income, Derivatives, Forwards, Cash, Equities, Futures, Positions, Settlements, General Ledger, NAV etc.)Strong experience working with data management systems, integration of investment accounting and back-office data from industry providers and business process engineering.Skilled in implementing robust Security Master and Account Master frameworks to ensure accurate instrument reference data, account hierarchy integrity, and seamless downstream integration across trading, accounting, and reporting platformsAdvanced SQL for data querying, validation, reconciliation, and root ? cause analysisHands ? on experience with Snowflake or similar cloud ? based data warehouse platformsAbility to analyze large, complex datasets to identify data quality issues, transformation logic gaps, and control weaknessesWorking knowledge of data modeling concepts (relational, dimensional) and data lineageFamiliarity with ETL / ELT patterns and data integration pipelinesExperience working with APIs, flat files, and vendor data feedsHands ? on experience with data mapping, including defining source ? to ? target mappings, transformation rules, and validation logic across front ?, middle ?, and back ? office data domainsPrevious experience participating on software implementation projects, data services buildout and 3rd party licensing process requiredGood working knowledge of data structures within Aladdin, CRIMS or other Front Office Service Provider platforms desiredGood working knowledge of Data Governance, Cataloging, Quality, and Lineage processes and tools desiredEffective communicator – can summarize succinctly and can provide details when neededTeam oriented – capable of working in a high-performance global settingDetail oriented and strong sense of responsibilityStrong Microsoft Office skills especially in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, VisioKnowledge and working experience of Snowflake, SQL, BI Tools, and Front Office trading platforms are all an advantage.Knowledge of Agile Methodology and tools (i.e. JIRA, Rally, RTC) a plusFlexible and can adapt easily to changing/evolving role requirementsSelf-motivated and able to influence othersSalary Range:$110,000 - $188,750 AnnualThe 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.