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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, based on location
- Pension / Retirement benefits
- 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:
As a Director of Software Engineering, you will lead the strategy, development, modernization, and delivery of mission-critical enterprise applications that power FICC's core business capabilities. You will oversee multiple application development teams driving engineering excellence, cloud transformation, and scalable software solutions across the enterprise.
This role requires a proven application development leader with deep technical expertise, strong people leadership, and a track record of delivering complex software platforms. You will partner closely with Product, Architecture, and Business leaders to translate strategic objectives into secure, resilient, and high-performing applications that create measurable business value.
The ideal candidate is a seasoned application development leader with a proven track record of building and modernizing enterprise software platforms, leading high-performing engineering organizations, and delivering scalable solutions that drive business outcomes.
Your Primary Responsibilities:
Lead & Deliver
- Define engineering strategy, technology roadmaps, and delivery priorities aligned to business and IT objectives.
- Lead multiple application development teams responsible for modernizing and migrating FICC applications to the public cloud.
- Drive execution across the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), balancing delivery, quality, scalability, and operational excellence.
- Develop and mentor engineering managers and senior engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Drive Application Development & Modernization
- Lead engineering organizations responsible for delivering mission-critical enterprise applications that support core business capabilities.
- Lead the design, development, modernization, and support of large-scale enterprise applications and distributed systems.
- Guide architecture and design decisions involving cloud-native technologies, microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and containerized platforms.
- Drive software engineering excellence through architecture reviews, development standards, code quality practices, automated testing, and engineering metrics.
- Champion modern application development practices across the full SDLC, enabling teams to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient software solutions.
- Establish engineering standards, development best practices, and CI/CD adoption across teams.
- Partner with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Architects to deliver scalable technical solutions that meet evolving business needs.
- Drive modernization initiatives that reduce technical debt and accelerate adoption of cloud and emerging technologies, including AI-enabled capabilities.
- Ensure solutions meet standards for performance, resiliency, security, maintainability, and regulatory compliance.
Partner & Influence
- Collaborate with Product, Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, and executive stakeholders to drive strategic technology decisions.
- Communicate complex technical concepts in a way that enables informed business decisions.
- Promote strong governance, risk management, and operational discipline across engineering teams.
**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree preferred.
- 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including significant leadership of application development organizations.
- Demonstrated success leading large-scale modernization and cloud transformation initiatives
- Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams delivering enterprise-scale software applications.
Talents Needed for Success:
- Deep application development background with experience designing, building, scaling, and modernizing enterprise software applications.
- Proven experience building, scaling, and leading enterprise application development organizations across multiple products, platforms, or business domains.
- Hands-on software engineering background with experience designing or developing large-scale enterprise software systems.
- Strong technical leadership in application architecture, microservices, APIs, cloud-native technologies, and distributed systems.
- Experience leading full-stack engineering organizations and driving large-scale modernization initiatives.
- Demonstrated success modernizing legacy applications and leading large-scale application transformation efforts.
- Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, SDLC, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, and production support.
- Proven ability to connect technology investments and architecture decisions to business outcomes.
- Demonstrated success leading engineering managers and developing high-performing teams.
- Strong executive presence, communication skills, and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Strategic mindset with the ability to balance modernization, innovation, risk management, and execution.
- Inclusive leadership style that values collaboration, accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading large-scale Java, or modern full-stack application development organizations.
- Experience modernizing legacy applications and migrating enterprise platforms to cloud-native architectures.
- Experience implementing microservices, API-first design, event-driven architecture, and containerized platforms.
- Experience leveraging AI, automation, or advanced analytics within enterprise software solutions.
- Financial services, capital markets, fintech, or other highly regulated industry experience.
Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. 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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience
- Significant leadership experience managing application development organizations
- Demonstrated success leading large-scale modernization and cloud transformation initiatives
- Experience leading multiple engineering teams delivering enterprise-scale software applications
- Deep experience designing, building, scaling, and modernizing enterprise software applications
- Experience with application architecture, microservices, APIs, cloud-native technologies, and distributed systems
- Experience leading full-stack engineering organizations and modernization initiatives
- Understanding of SDLC, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, and production support
- Ability to connect technology investments and architecture decisions to business outcomes
- Experience leading engineering managers and developing high-performing teams
- Strong executive presence, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Strategic mindset balancing modernization, innovation, risk management, and execution
- Master's degree
- Experience leading large-scale Java or modern full-stack application development organizations
- Experience implementing microservices, API-first design, event-driven architecture, and containerized platforms
- Experience leveraging AI, automation, or advanced analytics in enterprise software solutions
- Financial services, capital markets, fintech, or other highly regulated industry experience
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage are comprehensive and include mental health support, in-network preventive care, and company-supported HSA/FSA options. Company HSA contributions plus life, AD&D, and disability coverage further reinforce depth of protection.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company matching and references to pension-related benefits provide meaningful long-term savings support. Charitable contribution matching and financial-planning resources complement the core retirement offerings.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous parental leave, adoption assistance, childcare benefits, and dependent care FSAs indicate strong support for families. Back-up care and specialized family health programs are highlighted as part of the package.
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What We Do
With over 45 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 21 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm simplifies the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, data management, data reporting and information services across asset classes, bringing increased security and soundness to financial markets. In 2021, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at nearly U.S. $2.4 quadrillion. Its depository provides custody and asset servicing for securities issues from 177 countries and territories valued at U.S. $87.1 trillion. DTCC’s Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes 16 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at www.dtcc.com.
