Alpha Data Services, Senior Implementation Business Analyst, Vice President

State 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 as an Implementation Business Analyst.     Why is this role important   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 implementations   Define and maintain standards around data ingestion, enrichment and validation of client portfolio data into our Enterprise Data Management solution   Perform in-depth analysis of the functional capabilities inherent to our existing and emerging data platform   Document 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 documentation   Maintain an excellent working knowledge of the service offering to perform Subject Matter Expert activities: consultancy, implementation configuration and demonstrations     Education 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 platforms   Advanced SQL for data querying, validation, reconciliation, and root ‑ cause analysis   Hands ‑ on experience with Snowflake or similar cloud ‑ based data warehouse platforms   Ability to analyze large, complex datasets to identify data quality issues, transformation logic gaps, and control weaknesses   Working knowledge of data modeling concepts (relational, dimensional) and data lineage   Familiarity with ETL / ELT patterns and data integration pipelines   Experience working with APIs, flat files, and vendor data feeds   Hands ‑ on experience with data mapping, including defining source ‑ to ‑ target mappings, transformation rules, and validation logic across front ‑ , middle ‑ , and back ‑ office data domains   Previous experience participating on software implementation projects, data services buildout and 3rd party licensing process required   Good working knowledge of data structures within Aladdin, CRIMS or other Front Office Service Provider platforms desired   Good working knowledge of Data Governance, Cataloging, Quality, and