Alpha Data Services – Senior Business Analyst

Alpha Data Services – Senior Business Analyst

Overview:

The Alpha Control Framework platform monitors business and data events across State Street and CRD platforms, providing transparency and enforcing business controls throughout the client data management lifecycle; ultimately ensuring the highest data quality standards are met as part of our Alpha Data Services offering.  The Control Framework is composed of several software components that have been developed to eliminate manual processing, reduce operational risk and engender confidence from our clients in the quality and completeness of their data.

State Street’s Alpha Data Services Product team is seeking a motivated self-starter with strong verbal, written and analytical skills to assist our team with the buildout of business process and data controls for new Alpha Data Service offerings.

The selected candidate will gain exposure to the business and data aspects of our Alpha Data Service offerings as well as several functional components of the Alpha Data Platform. 

Job Description & Core Responsibilities:

• Gain a solid understanding of the Alpha Data Services offerings, including data structures within the Alpha Data Warehouse, content types and client interaction models
• Organize and conduct interview sessions with Product Subject Matter Experts to understand data flows and gaps or risks associated to various data management toolsets
• Conduct interviews, generate user stories, document scenarios and process flows to visualize control points, data handoffs and teams responsible for data quality issue remediation
• Create and update fact sheets for Alpha Data Services (ADS) standard controls
• Perform research and assist with the development of new SQL based queries that will be converted to operational validations within our proprietary platform

• Assist with gap analysis for clients’ requirements by researching existing control offerings
• Collaborate with various teams to understand the usage of third-party tools
• Create action plans for development of new data quality controls

Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Business, Accounting, Finance, MIS, Information Technology or related field of study
• Minimum 5 years’ experience with SQL
• Prior record of driving successful outcomes on data warehousing and data management projects as a business analyst or data analyst
• Inclination and courage to proactively seek information and understand the operational and data aspects of the business
• Exceptional problem solving and analytical skills, attention to detail and organization – able to independently troubleshoot and gather supporting evidence
• Strong attention to detail and organization
• Accountable and able to effectively prioritize when managing multiple requirements
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Team oriented and capable of working in a global setting
• Working knowledge of Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Excel, Word and Powerpoint

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