Who We Are Looking For
Global Delivery Custody is forming a central support team for the Payments, Cash, and Custody (“PCC”) strategic development program. PCC is a multi-year effort to modernize and simplify State Street’s core custody technology platforms. The program is a collaborative approach across Global Delivery, Product, and Technology with integrated planning and decision making. Key outcomes include ensuring STT meets regulatory and market processing requirements, meets the demands of current clients, and creates a world‑class, competitive custody product offering. The Global Delivery PCC team will work closely with IT and Product to drive the strategy and execution of PCC program components and will be responsible for ensuring effective end product design and client migrations.
Why this role is important to us
* Over the next 3‑5 years State Street will deploy a next generation platform infrastructure that will be the foundation of our custody operating model and help drive our goals to improve service delivery, quality, resiliency, and productivity optimization.
What You Will Be Responsible For
As an Officer in the PCC program, you will coordinate across the different value streams of GD PCC Program activities, working with specific project teams and leads to help coordinate local execution and impact. You will function as a point of contact and communication with the leadership related to PCC status and key milestones. You will lead strategy and efforts horizontally across value streams to drive consistency and automation for common activities such as project management, business analysis, training, testing, reporting, and operational readiness. The role will evolve with the PCC program, and the team will play an important role in broader PCC program leadership and help evolve and drive benefits across all aspects of PCC.
What We Value
* Replacing IBS/Hogan DDA infrastructure with Temenos Transact platform
* Migration to a new, enterprise payment initiation platform: State Street Payment Hub
* Enterprise‑wide migration to SWIFT ISO 2002 messaging format
* Modernize our payments platforms including retirement of MTS and making RTPS ISO 2022 compliant in all direct clearing markets
* Enhance screening capabilities and integration with FIRCO platform
* GD focus areas will include ensuring GD business needs are achieved through the program, development spend and prioritization aligns with GD overall strategy, GD meets its obligations to the program, and ensuring effective platform conversions and overall business readiness
* The central team will integrate with other PCC governance supporting Technology and Product and work with Global Simplification leadership to be aligned on initiatives and dependencies
* The GD PCC Program team is being established to serve as a central point of coordination of deliverables across Global Delivery for the PCC program’s individual development initiatives
Core Project Management Skills
* Strong ability to plan, execute, track, and close projects across multiple workstreams
* Ownership of project plans, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables
* Proficiency in maintaining RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) and driving mitigation actions. Ability to assess schedule risks, identify delays early, and proactively elevate
* Experience managing complex, global, cross‑functional projects with competing priorities
Stakeholder & Communication Management
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly at all levels
* Experience engaging with Business, Operations, Technology, Product, and Senior Leadership
* Ability to drive alignment, manage expectations, and influence without direct authority
* Strong capability to prepare and present Steering Committee updates, dashboards, and executive summaries
* Clear and timely status reporting, escalation, and decision tracking
Delivery & Execution Excellence
* Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and urgency in delivering outcomes
* Ability to track actions, follow through, and close open items rigorously
* Experience managing testing phases (UAT/BUAT), migrations, hyper‑care, and go‑live readiness
* Comfortable working in fast‑paced, change‑driven environments
Tools & Technical Proficiency
* Experience using project tracking tools, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms
* Ability to quickly learn and become effective in business applications and platforms relevant to the project (e.g., payments, operations, custody platforms)
Preferred Experience, Qualifications & Other Requirements
* 8+ years’ experience in financial services, operations, or technology delivery
* Experience in Project Management/PMO roles. Exposure to payments, custody, reconciliation, or large transformation programs
* Experience in Change Management, strong collaboration with Change Governance teams, and handling IT transformation projects in the financial services industry
* Flexible with shifts as per the project requirement
Equal Opportunity Employer
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.
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