Associate Director Platform Engineering

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork.  When you join our team, you’ll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It’s the chance to make a difference at a company that’s truly one of a kind.

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Serves as a dedicated technology resource for advancing DTCC’s business opportunities and providing industry thought leadership for leveraging new technology. The goal of this new department is to partner internally with IT, our business and regulatory divisions and externally with clients, regulators, and fintech vendors, to help build new platforms and business models to advance DTCC’s mission to support the financial markets.

 

 

 

 

Your Primary Responsibilities

• Design, manage, and optimize virtualized infrastructure platforms to ensure performance, availability, and scalability
• Lead modernization initiatives, including transformation of legacy platforms into modern, cloud‑aligned or hybrid architectures
• Define and execute technology roadmaps that reduce technical debt and improve operational resilience
• Establish and maintain end‑to‑end observability across infrastructure and applications, including metrics, logs, and traces
• Enable proactive monitoring, alerting, and incident response to minimize service disruption
• Partner with application, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to embed reliability and observability into system design
• Support capacity planning, performance optimization, and disaster recovery strategies
• Ensure platforms meet security, compliance, and regulatory requirements
• Drive continuous improvement through automation, standardization, and operational insights
• Perform design analysis, documentation, and planning for strategic IT initiatives/solutions 
• Provide technical design guidance and support to platform engineering teams
• Engage external vendors when needed to review standard methodologies, architecture and design proposal and tackle sophisticated problems
• Optimally engage in strategic goals for Private Cloud engineering, the department, and the organization
• Create and update technical/architectural/strategic documentation in support of the Private Cloud infrastructure
• Provide design and Senior engineering level escalation technical support to platform teams
• Collaborate with other teams to develop automation strategies and deployment processes
• Provide recommendations and follow-through on ways to improve the stability, security, efficiency, and scalability of the environment
• Maintain and improve platform configurations to meet the demands and requirements of our customers

 

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• Strong background in server virtualization (primarily VMware) planning and design
• Experience modernizing legacy environments and implementing target‑state architectures
• Solid understanding of networking, automation and orchestration at an Enterprise level. Solid understanding networking (layer 2 and layer 3 connectivity) & storage technologies
• Knowledge of monitoring, telemetry, and observability practices
• Ability to translate business and operational needs into technical solutions
• Strong background in Automation with respect to virtualization
• Experience working across engineering, operations, and governance stakeholders
• Strong documentation, communication, and problem‑solving skills
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills
• Highly motivated, self-starter who can support multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced work environment
• Analytical, strategic, and problem-solving abilities
• Able to provide adequate guidance and governance to project teams
• Stable, scalable, and well‑monitored technology platforms
• Reduced operational risk and faster incident resolution
• Improved system performance, transparency, and reliability
• Successful execution of modernization and transformation initiatives
• Serves as a trusted coach or mentor within the organization.
• Communicates openly keeping everyone across the organization informed.