
Financial Services · 48k people
Alpha Data Services Senior Business Analyst - IBOR ABOR - VP
Posted 9 Oct
What’s this role about? The Senior Business Analyst will design, test, and deploy strategic data integrations for investment and accounting data domains within the Alpha Ecosystem. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements, improve data quality, and ensure the scalability of investment data services.
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Company
About State Street At State Street, we deliver leading investment platforms, data, expertise, and solutions that accelerate performance and better decision making. With over 200 years of global financial leadership, we equip institutional investors through a comprehensive suite of capabilities: Investment Services: Integrated front-to-back solutions across custody, accounting, and operations. Investment Management: Index and active strategies from one of the world’s largest asset managers. Markets: Multi-asset trading, FX solutions, and data-driven research to enhance portfolio value. Who We Are • 50,000+ employees worldwide • Active in 100+ markets • #1 in ETF servicing What You’ll Find Here • Executive perspectives and thought leadership • Timely market commentary and macro insights • Our views on investment operations, ETFs, private markets, and digital finance • Stories reflecting our culture, values and commitment to diversity and inclusion
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Responsibilities
- Alpha Data Services is a strategic component of State Street Alpha, responsible for delivering scalable investment data management and integration capabilities to our customers. Our platform enables the acquisition, standardization, enrichment, governance, and distribution of critical investment and accounting data, supporting a broad range of business functions and investment operating models.
- The Senior Business Analyst will contribute to the growth and modernization of Alpha's data services platform by partnering with business, product, and technology teams to define requirements, develop integration solutions, and drive the delivery of strategic data capabilities. This role requires a strong combination of business analysis, data analysis, and stakeholder engagement skills, with a focus on building reusable, scalable, and production-ready solutions that support enterprise investment data services.
- Support the design, configuration, testing, and deployment of strategic data integrations into the Alpha Ecosystem supporting Investment Book of Record (IBOR), Accounting Book of Record (ABOR), and related investment data domains.
- Partner with Product, Architecture, Development, and Data Management teams to define requirements, delivery plans, and implementation approaches for new and enhanced integration capabilities.
- Analyze current and target-state data operating models to identify opportunities for standardization, automation, scalability, and improved data consumption.
- Gather, document, and manage business and functional requirements, translating them into integration use cases, process flows.
- Develop and maintain subject matter expertise relative to the Alpha Data Platform, Data Model and integration frameworks to support strategic solution design and evolution.
- Analyze and document data mappings between source systems, Alpha Data Platform, and downstream data consumers to ensure consistency, accuracy, and scalability.
- Define and document data transformation, enrichment, derivation, and workflow requirements required to support enterprise investment and accounting data capabilities.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Development, Data Architecture, and Operations teams to design and deliver scalable, reusable, and production-ready integration solutions.
- Participate in functional, integration, and user acceptance testing activities, including test planning, test case development, execution support, and validation of production readiness.
- Contribute to the successful delivery of strategic initiatives through effective requirements management, issue resolution, risk identification, and stakeholder coordination.
- Partner with business and technology teams to identify and prioritize enhancements that improve data quality, operational efficiency, scalability, and platform capabilities.
- Contribute to the definition of product and platform requirements, helping drive the evolution of standard data services, integration patterns, and enterprise data capabilities.
- Collaborate with team members globally to promote best practices, establish consistent delivery methodologies, improve governance, and drive continuous process improvement.
- Support data quality, reconciliation, governance, and control processes to ensure the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of critical investment and accounting data.
- Display a culture of individual ownership of tasks to embed a clear individual sense of accountability in performing the role.
- Ensure that the highest level of the Code of Conduct is displayed in your behavior.
- Provide appropriate management information as required to support business unit decision making.
- Support our ‘Risk Excellence’ culture
Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree or above.
- 7+ years of financial services experience is preferred.
- Experience working with Investment Book of Record (IBOR), Accounting Book of Record (ABOR), security master, positions, transactions, reference data, or related investment data domains.
- Strong analytical and data mapping skills with experience designing and supporting enterprise data integration solutions.
- Working knowledge of SQL, Snowflake, EDM, ETL tools, and data transformation frameworks.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate across Product, Development, Architecture, Operations, and Data Management functions to deliver enterprise-scale solutions.
- Proven ability to manage concurrent initiatives, adapt to changing priorities, and deliver high-quality outcomes in a dynamic investment data and technology environment.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams and contribute to a positive, results-oriented work environment.
- Exceptional attention to detail with a commitment to delivering accurate, high-quality work products.
- Self-driven and proactive, with the ability to work independently, take ownership of outcomes, and manage competing priorities effectively.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Benefits
- 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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- 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.
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