Director Platform Engineering

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?  

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve. 

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits
• Pension
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

The Impact you will have in this role:

This role is the spearhead for the Web3 Platform Development that supports various business functions across DTCC. You will be guiding the internal team on engineering best practices, DevSecOps, software architecture and security architecture in addition helping leadership in strategic decisions on how to evolve our platform. The Web3 platform involve building solutions inhouse and integrating off-the-shelf vendor solutions as needed. You will provide technical leadership across multiple engineering organizations spread around the globe. You will drive the platform design, architecture and execution across the internal teams and external stakeholders. This will require you to work closely with leaders from our business partners and DTCC technology risk assessment teams. This role is critical for our mission of building and providing a Web3 platform for production workloads across DTCC functions.

Your Primary Responsibilities:  

Leadership & Strategy

• Lead and mentor engineering managers and senior engineers across multiple product lines.
• Define and implement cloud-first and middleware-integrated technology roadmaps in collaboration with Architecture, Infrastructure, and Product teams.
• Promote a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvements

Cloud & Middleware Engineering

• Drive the design and development of cloud-native applications using AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Lead all aspects of migration of existing systems to different cloud platforms, ensuring scalability, resilience, and security.
• Lead integration efforts using technologies such as Kubernetes, Kafka, Cloud Managed Databases, API gateways, and service meshes.

Technical Excellence

• Champion engineering standard methodologies including DevSecOps, microservices architecture, and API-first design.
• Automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) based delivery
• Ensure systems meet performance, compliance, and regulatory standards.
• Evaluate new technologies and guide adoption to improve DTCC’s technology stack.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with business and technology leaders to translate strategic objectives into actionable engineering plans.
• Communicate effectively with senior leadership on progress, risks, and opportunities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Talents Needed for Success:

• Proven 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with 5+ years in a leadership role..
• Proven experience designing and delivering cloud-native applications on a large scale.
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Strong experience with technologies such as Messaging systems, managed databases, container orchestrators, or similar.
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies and enterprise software development.
• Excellent communication, teamwork, and leadership skills.
• Experience in Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS.
• Familiarity with cloud security, data governance, and compliance frameworks.
• Knowledge of observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) and API management platforms.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.