Job Details

Job Title: Technical Environment Manager - OCIO Investment Technology

Location: Boston, MA (Hybrid - 3 days onsite preferred)

Schedule: Full-time hours, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM (earlier start preferred due to global collaboration)

Employment Type: Contract (potential to convert to full-time, not guaranteed)

Start Date: ASAP (target mid-February)

Position Overview

The Technical Environment Manager will support a large-scale, multi-year global transformation program within an OCIO (Outsourced Chief Investment Officer) investment management environment. This role is responsible for ensuring that complex technical environments are stable, available, and ready to support ongoing development, testing, vendor integrations, and phased technology upgrades.

This position plays a critical role in coordinating environments across multiple investment management platforms and data ecosystems, working closely with internal technology teams, business stakeholders, and external SaaS vendors. While not a formal project manager role, the position requires a highly organized, delivery-focused mindset and the ability to track dependencies, risks, and readiness across many parallel initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Environment Management & Readiness

• Manage and coordinate multiple technical environments (development, testing, integration, staging, production, disaster recovery) supporting OCIO investment technology platforms
• Ensure environments are available, stable, secure, and compliant to support continuous testing and implementation activities
• Plan environment readiness in alignment with program milestones, upgrades, and vendor release schedules
• Proactively identify and resolve environment-related risks that could impact testing timelines or system availability

Technology & Platform Coordination

• Work closely with architecture, engineering, data, and infrastructure teams to support investment systems and data platforms
• Coordinate environment activities for key investment management and data platforms, including:
• State Street / Charles River (portfolio management, trading, compliance)
• Snowflake (data warehousing and analytics)
• Databricks (data engineering, transformation, analytics)
• Support integrations across upstream and downstream systems with minimal disruption to the broader ecosystem

Vendor & Stakeholder Collaboration

• Act as a primary point of coordination with SaaS vendors and technology partners to align on environment needs, release schedules, and testing requirements
• Work with vendors to anticipate upgrade impacts, manage dependencies, and avoid delays
• Communicate effectively with global stakeholders across technology, operations, and business teams

Risk, Compliance & Process Improvement

• Ensure environments meet internal controls, security, and regulatory expectations common to investment management environments
• Partner with cybersecurity and risk teams to support secure configurations and incident response activities
• Drive continuous improvement in environment processes, documentation, and automation where possible
• Maintain clear documentation, standards, and environment status reporting for leadership

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience within financial services or investment management technology environments
• Proven experience managing or coordinating complex technical environments across multiple applications
• Strong understanding of SDLC, testing cycles, environment provisioning, and release coordination
• Hands-on experience supporting investment management systems, data platforms, or large SaaS ecosystems
• Experience working with State Street / Charles River, Snowflake, Databricks, Alpha Data Platform, or similar investment/data platforms
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across global teams, vendors, and stakeholders
• Highly organized and delivery-focused; comfortable tracking tasks, risks, and dependencies across a large program

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting OCIO, asset management, or investment consulting environments
• Familiarity with Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, or ITIL-based operating models
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Strong vendor management and cross-platform integration experience

Interview Process

• Initial screening interview
• Follow-up interviews with subject matter experts aligned to supported platforms
• Final interview focused on role-specific responsibilities and environment management scenarios

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