Director, Solution Manager - Parametric

Director, Solution Manager

The Director, Solution Manager is responsible for working skillfully across the organization to produce solution vision, which entails defining what we are solving for, end-to-end user/customer journey or lifecycle, personas, their skills and needs, and a high level outline of a solution that addresses their needs. Solution intent (in collaboration with Business Architecture function) entails defining nomenclature for data and capabilities required to meet business objectives, capability roadmap as well as migration paths and milestones when going from current state to future state, overall non-functional requirements that are key metrics required for new system to capture and track, and target operating model (business, operations) that complement evolution in systems.

This position will play a pivotal role in defining and shaping next generation client analysis systems, with a focus on straight through processing and increasing investment strategy, portfolio manager and client operations efficiency, through technology solutions in a transparent and highly collaborative manner with business and technology stakeholders and partners. This position will also look to shape new initiatives in multi-asset analytics and international portfolios. Additionally, this role will have management responsibility.

Primary responsibilities include communicating effectively with technology and business partners, creatively designing workshops and user sessions, empathetically understanding and articulating user needs, analyzing data gathered through user/stakeholder interactions, working collaboratively with product and development team to draw out solution intent, clearly understanding and articulating dependencies that will influence sequencing of development, running program increments and facilitating quarterly planning across teams, working collaboratively with business and operations stakeholders to draw out target operating model as systems evolve, effectively managing stakeholder relationships through polished communication and follow-through, providing consultation and ensuring continuity with product and development teams on solution, and being AI-savvy with the ability to identify and support AI-enabled business and technology solutions.

Job requirements include a bachelor's degree required/master's degree preferred, a minimum of 10 years of experience in finance/asset management, strategy, business analysis or system analysis, excellent verbal and written communication skills, experience leading and directing others to achieve measurable results, demonstrated ability to articulate solution or product vision and/or customized solutions to meet business objectives, advanced experience working with scaled agile software development processes, advanced skills using a variety of tools to document workflows and data mapping including but not limited to Miro/Lucid, Excel, SQL and Visio, understanding of analysis and artifact goals throughout the solution lifecycle, ability to learn quickly and work in a changing environment and under tight deadlines, ability to independently manage personal timelines and meet tight deadlines, ability to successfully manage and coordinate simultaneous project deliverables across groups and teams, and strong experience with Agile, Miro/Lucid, SQL, Excel, Visio, Balsamiq, Jira, Tableau.