State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is one of the world's leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, including investment servicing, investment management and investment research and trading. With $40.0 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration and $3.7 trillion* in assets under management as of September 30, 2023, State Street operates in more than 100 geographic markets worldwide, including the US, Canada, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. For more information, visit State Street’s website at www.statestreet.com.
Assets under management as of September 30, 2023, includes approximately $58 billion of assets with respect to SPDR® products for which State Street Global Advisors Funds Distributors, LLC (SSGA FD) acts solely as the marketing agent. SSGA FD and State Street Global Advisors are affiliated. For more information, visit State Street Global Advisors at www.ssga.com .
About Business Line
SSGA IT is a trusted technology partner that relentlessly delivers innovative business solutions for our global clients and employees. The ATS org of IT provides software and services across multiple business groups like Portfolio Constructions, Investment Trading and Oversight, Investment Research and Enterprise functions of Regulatory, Compliance, Finance, Billing, etc.
The team you will be joining is a part of State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), one of the biggest asset managers in the world, which provides services to the world’s governments, institutions, and financial advisors across the globe. With over four decades of experience and trillions of dollars in assets under management, we offer one of the broadest selections of services across asset classes, risk profiles, regions, and styles. As pioneers in index, ETF, and ESG investing, we are always inventing new ways to invest.
Join us if making your mark in the asset management industry from day one is a challenge you are ready to take on.
Key Responsibilities & Experience Range
We are currently seeking a senior Technical Leader for our GA GMH team. The GMH team works on our internally developed GMH Application for our GA business partners in the Portfolio Construction, Compliance, Trading and Research business lines.
As a Leader of the team, you will be responsible for overall designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting against new and existing application demands to support business, IT, and project requirements. The role will also require you to work as an individual contributor and other times leading delivery and development team.
The successful candidate will have18+ Years of Hands-on Experience with strong business and technology acumen, build partnerships, foster close collaboration and work well within a Global team dynamic. The candidate must possess an inherent understanding of technologies, relationships between technology, data, operations, and business areas.
The candidate will be leading a team of around 10-15 technical SME’s who are responsible for developing and maintaining the application suite which is the integration backbone between SSGA and other third-party tools facilitating trade and order processing. The candidate should ensure the successful transition of the solution and service from the outsourced vendor to inhouse. The candidate should be responsible for demand management and capacity planning for the India team and accountable for delivery with efficiency and quality. The candidate should be a hands-on technical leader who will assume ownership, take accountability, drive innovation and play a key role in in shaping India global hub to be the Tech Center of SSGA. The candidate will need to staff, mentor, set goals and expectations and complete performance appraisal of the team.
- This person would be responsible for staffing, operationalize and leading the GMH team.
- Provide technology expertise & leadership teams in areas of integrations – web services, API management, file transfer, messaging, etc.
- Collaborate with other architects and stakeholders to roll out governance practices and standards for building the solutions.
- Collaborate with scrum masters and project/program manager to organize deliverables into phases and sprints; drive estimation and sizing, contribute actively to planning and scheduling the solution implementation.
- Ensure solutions & deliverables of team exhibits elevated levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and reliability.
- Represent the team in planning and product meetings, effectively communicating the available platform features and constraints.
- Ability to participate in major incident management, production stability, etc. as and when required.
- Ability to act as a guide and mentor in the team.
Skills & Knowledge
Qualification & Certifications
- A minimum of B.E/BTech degree in Computer Science or related field
- TOGAF certification (good to have)
Primary Skills (Must Have)
- 18+ years of experience as a functional manager/technical leader/architect in building a modern integration stack and expertise in Managing Enterprise-wide releases.
- Proficient in developing Integration stack – API Management, Web Services, Messaging, etc.
- Proficient on exchanging data between source and target systems using SQL, SOAP, REST, API, File Transfer, Messaging, etc.
- Good at designing and developing solutions/services using Rest/Microservice patterns.
- Experience with understanding of Kafka, IBM Message Queue, IBM Message File Transfer (MFX)
- Experience with JBOSS Application Server and WebLogic
- Experience in one of Spring and ORM tools like Hibernate, JPA
- Experience with Ant, Maven, JUnit, JMock, DBUnit
- Oracle/Sybase data base devlopment (PLSQL expertise)
- Experience leading a global team across locations with a mix of employees and outsourcing partner for deliverables.
- Knowledge of the Asset Management or Investment Management industry and data
- In-depth knowledge of Scrum and Agile Software Development Methodology
- Experience with Bitbucket, Jenkins, Artifactory
- Exposure to Trading Applications Migration and App migration from on premise to Cloud is preferred.
Secondary Skills (Good to Have)
- Exposure/Ability to develop solutions using AWS/Azure/JCP Services
- Exposure/Ability to develop in Perl, Python and have a good command on any Unix flavor OS.
- Exposure on any OLAP/OLTP database and is comfortable in writing PL/SQL procedures, data modeling and query optimization.
- Experience with SonarQube, Black Duck, Veracode
- Experience withReact Js, GWT, Java Script
- Knowledge of Redshift, Databricks
- Knowledge of Autosys Job Scheduler, Cron
- Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
- Knowledge of code review tools like pmd, Sonar, and Checkstyle
- Knowledge of AWS and basic understanding of Cloud concepts
- Knowledge of ION Minerva and/or Sentinel applications
USP of the Role
This role demands a seasoned technology expert who is highly skilled in programming, engineering and problem-solving skills who can provide the technical leadership and ensuring the ownership of end-to-end development and maintenance of solutions. Technical expertise in solution development with in-depth knowledge of application Integration using SOAP, REST, File Transfer, Messaging is necessary for this role. If relentless focus and drive towards technical and engineering excellence along with adding value to business excites you, this is absolutely a role for you.
Work, Live and Grow. We make all efforts to create a splendid work environment. Our benefits packages are competitive and comprehensive. Details vary by location, but you may expect generous medical care, insurance, and savings plans, among other rewards. You will have access to flexible Work Programs to help you match your needs. And our wealth of development programs and educational support will help you reach your full potential.
Inclusion, Diversity and Social Responsibility. We believe our employees’ diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives are a powerful contributor to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive and reach their maximum potential while adding value to both our organization and our clients. We warmly welcome candidates of diverse origin, background, ability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and personality. Another fundamental value at State Street is active engagement with our communities around the world, both as a partner and a leader. You will have tools to help balance your professional and personal life, paid volunteer days, matching gift programs and access to employee networks that help you stay connected to what matters to you.
