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We are seeking a Managing Director level Head of Technology Process Re-Engineering to establish and lead a GTS-focused capability for technology process mapping, process re-engineering, and operational transparency across State Street Global Technology Services. This role will report to the GTS Head of Process Improvement and Risk Remediation. This role will drive the development of standardized process views for key GTS technology processes, improve end-to-end process understanding, and identify opportunities to simplify, optimize, and strengthen control effectiveness within the GTS operating environment.
The ideal candidate is a senior technology transformation leader with deep experience in process mapping, operating model design, and process re-engineering within a large, complex, and regulated technology organization. This individual must be able to translate fragmented knowledge into clear, actionable process maps and improvement roadmaps that support GTS decision-making, risk reduction, and sustained operational improvement.
This is a GTS-facing leadership role expected to partner with GTS senior leaders, technology process owners, risk partners, platform teams, and global delivery organizations. The Head of Technology Process Mapping will be expected to define the standards, tooling approach, and governance model for GTS process mapping while also leading hands-on efforts to document, analyze, redesign, and embed improved ways of working.
What you will be responsible for
GTS Technology Process Mapping Strategy & Execution
- Define and lead the GTS technology process mapping approach, including standards, methodology, taxonomy, tooling approach, and adoption model for documenting critical technology processes across GTS functions.
- Build and maintain clear end-to-end views of priority GTS processes, connecting activities, roles, systems, handoffs, controls, pain points, and performance indicators to improve transparency and accountability.
- Build out and lead a small team of process mapping professionals across two global locations, ensuring consistent standards, delivery quality, and stakeholder engagement across the GTS process mapping portfolio.
Process Re-engineering, Optimization & Control Improvement
- Lead structured process analysis to identify duplication, fragmentation, manual workarounds, unclear ownership, control gaps, and opportunities to simplify or standardize execution.
- Partner with GTS process owners and transformation teams to design future-state processes, clarify roles and decision rights, and develop practical implementation roadmaps that improve efficiency, risk management, and operating discipline.
- Establish measurable outcomes for GTS process re-engineering efforts, including reduced complexity, improved cycle times, stronger control alignment, clearer accountability, and better management reporting.
Governance, Standards & Executive Reporting
- Create and maintain governance routines that ensure GTS technology process maps remain current, validated, owned, and aligned to GTS standards, control expectations, and management reporting needs.
- Develop executive-ready reporting that communicates GTS process coverage, mapping maturity, key risks, improvement opportunities, open decisions, and progress against technology process improvement priorities.
Stakeholder Leadership & Change Adoption
- Lead engagement with senior stakeholders across GTS technology, risk, operations, and delivery teams to drive alignment on current-state understanding, future-state design, prioritization of improvement opportunities, and adoption of redesigned processes.
- Build credibility with global teams by facilitating fact-based discussions, resolving ownership ambiguity, challenging legacy ways of working, and helping teams move from process documentation to measurable process improvement.
What we value
- Technology Process Leadership: Proven ability to define and scale process mapping, process architecture, and process re-engineering capabilities within a large, matrixed technology organization.
- Re-engineering Mindset: Demonstrated experience identifying process inefficiencies and translating analysis into practical redesign options, implementation plans, and measurable outcomes.
- Executive Stakeholder Influence: Ability to engage senior leaders, challenge constructively, build consensus, and drive decisions across organizational boundaries.
- Risk and Control Orientation: Strong understanding of how process design, ownership, controls, metrics, and evidence support operational resilience and a sound control environment.
- Structured Communication: Exceptional written, verbal, and facilitation skills, with the ability to convert complex processes into clear narratives, visual maps, decision materials, and executive-ready recommendations.
- Analytical Depth: Strong ability to evaluate process data, control evidence, performance indicators, organizational handoffs, and operating model constraints to identify root causes and improvement opportunities.
- Change Leadership: Ability to move GTS teams from documentation to adoption by embedding standards, reinforcing accountability, and sustaining improved ways of working across global technology teams.
Education & Preferred Qualifications
- 15+ years of experience leading technology process transformation, process re-engineering, business architecture, operational excellence, technology transformation, or risk-aligned remediation initiatives within large organizations.
- Experience operating at a senior leadership level, preferably within financial services, technology, operations, risk management, or another highly regulated environment.
- Demonstrated expertise with process mapping and re-engineering methods such as BPMN, SIPOC, value stream mapping, Lean, Six Sigma, business capability mapping, operating model design, or related disciplines.
- Experience building process standards, governance models, repositories, reusable templates, maturity assessments, and executive reporting for technology process improvement programs.
- Strong track record working with globally distributed technology teams and influencing senior stakeholders across GTS, risk, operations, and business-aligned technology functions.
Salary Range:
$170,000 - $267,500 Annual
The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.
Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.
About State Street
Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.
We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.
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.
Job Application Disclosure:
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Who we are looking for
We are seeking a Managing Director level Head of Technology Process Re-Engineering to establish and lead a GTS-focused capability for technology process mapping, process re-engineering, and operational transparency across State Street Global Technology Services. This role will report to the GTS Head of Process Improvement and Risk Remediation. This role will drive the development of standardized process views for key GTS technology processes, improve end-to-end process understanding, and identify opportunities to simplify, optimize, and strengthen control effectiveness within the GTS operating environment.
The ideal candidate is a senior technology transformation leader with deep experience in process mapping, operating model design, and process re-engineering within a large, complex, and regulated technology organization. This individual must be able to translate fragmented knowledge into clear, actionable process maps and improvement roadmaps that support GTS decision-making, risk reduction, and sustained operational improvement.
This is a GTS-facing leadership role expected to partner with GTS senior leaders, technology process owners, risk partners, platform teams, and global delivery organizations. The Head of Technology Process Mapping will be expected to define the standards, tooling approach, and governance model for GTS process mapping while also leading hands-on efforts to document, analyze, redesign, and embed improved ways of working.
What you will be responsible for
GTS Technology Process Mapping Strategy & Execution
- Define and lead the GTS technology process mapping approach, including standards, methodology, taxonomy, tooling approach, and adoption model for documenting critical technology processes across GTS functions.
- Build and maintain clear end-to-end views of priority GTS processes, connecting activities, roles, systems, handoffs, controls, pain points, and performance indicators to improve transparency and accountability.
- Build out and lead a small team of process mapping professionals across two global locations, ensuring consistent standards, delivery quality, and stakeholder engagement across the GTS process mapping portfolio.
Process Re-engineering, Optimization & Control Improvement
- Lead structured process analysis to identify duplication, fragmentation, manual workarounds, unclear ownership, control gaps, and opportunities to simplify or standardize execution.
- Partner with GTS process owners and transformation teams to design future-state processes, clarify roles and decision rights, and develop practical implementation roadmaps that improve efficiency, risk management, and operating discipline.
- Establish measurable outcomes for GTS process re-engineering efforts, including reduced complexity, improved cycle times, stronger control alignment, clearer accountability, and better management reporting.
Governance, Standards & Executive Reporting
- Create and maintain governance routines that ensure GTS technology process maps remain current, validated, owned, and aligned to GTS standards, control expectations, and management reporting needs.
- Develop executive-ready reporting that communicates GTS process coverage, mapping maturity, key risks, improvement opportunities, open decisions, and progress against technology process improvement priorities.
Stakeholder Leadership & Change Adoption
- Lead engagement with senior stakeholders across GTS technology, risk, operations, and delivery teams to drive alignment on current-state understanding, future-state design, prioritization of improvement opportunities, and adoption of redesigned processes.
- Build credibility with global teams by facilitating fact-based discussions, resolving ownership ambiguity, challenging legacy ways of working, and helping teams move from process documentation to measurable process improvement.
What we value
- Technology Process Leadership: Proven ability to define and scale process mapping, process architecture, and process re-engineering capabilities within a large, matrixed technology organization.
- Re-engineering Mindset: Demonstrated experience identifying process inefficiencies and translating analysis into practical redesign options, implementation plans, and measurable outcomes.
- Executive Stakeholder Influence: Ability to engage senior leaders, challenge constructively, build consensus, and drive decisions across organizational boundaries.
- Risk and Control Orientation: Strong understanding of how process design, ownership, controls, metrics, and evidence support operational resilience and a sound control environment.
- Structured Communication: Exceptional written, verbal, and facilitation skills, with the ability to convert complex processes into clear narratives, visual maps, decision materials, and executive-ready recommendations.
- Analytical Depth: Strong ability to evaluate process data, control evidence, performance indicators, organizational handoffs, and operating model constraints to identify root causes and improvement opportunities.
- Change Leadership: Ability to move GTS teams from documentation to adoption by embedding standards, reinforcing accountability, and sustaining improved ways of working across global technology teams.
Education & Preferred Qualifications
- 15+ years of experience leading technology process transformation, process re-engineering, business architecture, operational excellence, technology transformation, or risk-aligned remediation initiatives within large organizations.
- Experience operating at a senior leadership level, preferably within financial services, technology, operations, risk management, or another highly regulated environment.
- Demonstrated expertise with process mapping and re-engineering methods such as BPMN, SIPOC, value stream mapping, Lean, Six Sigma, business capability mapping, operating model design, or related disciplines.
- Experience building process standards, governance models, repositories, reusable templates, maturity assessments, and executive reporting for technology process improvement programs.
- Strong track record working with globally distributed technology teams and influencing senior stakeholders across GTS, risk, operations, and business-aligned technology functions.
Salary Range:
$170,000 - $267,500 Annual
The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.
Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.
About State Street
Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.
We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.
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.
Job Application Disclosure:
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
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Verify your SOC code before applying
Technology Specialist roles map to multiple SOC codes in the DOL system. Pull the O*NET profile for your specific function before outreach so you can confirm which wage level and job zone your role falls under during LCA review.
Target employers with cap-exempt H-1B access
Universities, nonprofit research institutions, and government-affiliated entities can file H-1B petitions outside the annual lottery cap. If you're a Technology Specialist with dual academic or research functions, these organizations can sponsor you year-round.
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Filter Technology Specialist openings by employers with confirmed H-1B filing history using Migrate Mate. This surfaces companies whose HR and legal teams already understand the LCA and I-129 process, cutting weeks off your job search.
Audit your degree field before the LCA
DOL's LCA certification requires your degree to be directly related to the Technology Specialist role, not just adjacent. A general business or liberal arts degree without a tech concentration often triggers an RFE. Address the connection explicitly in your offer letter.
Negotiate your start date around LCA timing
Your employer can't file your H-1B petition until DOL certifies the LCA, which takes up to seven business days. Build at least two weeks of buffer into your start date so a certification delay doesn't push back your petition filing window.
Use the OFLC Wage Search before discussing salary
Look up the prevailing wage for your Technology Specialist job title, SOC code, and work location in the OFLC Wage Search before any salary conversation. Knowing your Level I through Level IV wage floor stops you from accepting an offer that USCIS will later flag.
H-1B Visa Technology Specialist: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Technology Specialist role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
It qualifies if the position normally requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific technical field such as computer science, information systems, or network engineering. Generalist titles that accept any degree in any field often fail the specialty occupation test. Your offer letter and employer's internal job requirements documentation both need to specify the required degree field clearly.
What happens to my H-1B status if my Technology Specialist role changes significantly after approval?
A material change in job duties, work location, or wage level requires your employer to file an amended H-1B petition with USCIS before the change takes effect. Moving to a new client site in a different Metropolitan Statistical Area also triggers an amended LCA. Working under materially different conditions without an amended petition puts your status at risk.
How do I find Technology Specialist employers who actively sponsor H-1B visas?
Migrate Mate filters Technology Specialist roles by employers with confirmed H-1B LCA filing history, so you're not guessing which companies will sponsor. Targeting employers with existing H-1B infrastructure matters because the LCA certification and I-129 filing process requires legal and HR resources that first-time sponsors often lack.
Can my employer use premium processing for a Technology Specialist H-1B petition?
Yes. Employers can request premium processing on Form I-907, which commits USCIS to adjudicating the I-129 petition within 15 business days. Premium processing doesn't guarantee approval but it eliminates months of uncertainty. It's particularly useful for Technology Specialist roles with project-based start dates where delays have direct business costs for the employer.
What documentation strengthens an H-1B petition for a Technology Specialist position?
The strongest petitions pair a detailed job duties letter with your academic transcripts, any industry certifications, and a credentials evaluation if your degree is from outside the U.S. For Technology Specialist roles, employer documentation showing that the position is filled exclusively by degreed professionals, such as internal job postings requiring specific technical degrees, directly addresses USCIS specialty occupation scrutiny.