Job Description

Company profile

State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation we\xe2\x80\x99re making our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we\xe2\x80\x99ve been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading and investment management to institutional clients.

About Business Line

Our technology function, Application Technology Solutions (ATS), is vital to State Street Global Advisors and is the key enabler for our business to deliver data and insights to our clients. We\xe2\x80\x99re driving the company\xe2\x80\x99s digital transformation and modernization initiatives and expanding business capabilities using industry best practices and advanced technologies such as cloud, artificial intelligence and robotics process automation. We offer a collaborative environment where technology skills and innovation are valued in a global organization. We\xe2\x80\x99re looking for top technical talent to join our team and deliver creative technology solutions that help us become an end-to-end, next-generation financial services company. Join us if you want to grow your technical skills, solve real problems and make your mark on our industry.

Key Responsibilities & Experience Range

As a member of the IT team, the candidate will utilize prior work experience in both the investment and technical domains to provide solutions to end users. On a day to day basis, the job may entail working as a team to architect data oriented solutions, enhancement to our reporting solutions, build sustainable operating model or interacting with our business partners to prioritize and gather requirements on future initiatives.

The ideal candidate will be:

• A self-starter with excellent organizational, time and relationship management skills.
• Very detail oriented with ability to work with both Developers and Business users.
• Develop oneself into a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Technical & Domain areas.
• Able to take responsibility of informing managers about potential issues on a timely basis using strong and clear communication.
• Able to review existing processes/procedures and suggest improvements.
• Ability to adapt to agile methodologies, quick self-learner.
• Able to lead projects with minimal guidance and should show complete ownership of deliverables.

Skills & Knowledge

Qualification & Certifications

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree is a requirement; Computer Science or Information Technology preferred.
• 8+ years of development experience in technology and/or data functions in financial services or consulting industry.

Primary Skills (Must Have)

• Hands on experience with establishing data strategies and data transformation implementations with in a fast paced, dynamically growing sector in the industry.
• Hands on development in Python, PL/SQL, SQL, shell scripting, Spark.
• Experience working in cloud data platforms such as AWS Redshift, Spark based data engineering solutions.
• Proven architectural experience to deliver data warehousing projects with strong understanding of ETL and Data warehousing concepts.

Secondary Skills (Good to Have)

• Demonstrate architectural understanding and problem solving abilities to design/build complex data oriented solutions.
• Proven project experience in dealing with Fixed Income data would be an added advantage.

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