Lead Application Support Engineer

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, 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:

Being a member of the Development family is responsible for creating, designing, deploying, and supporting applications, programs, and software solutions. May include research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities related to software products used internally or externally on product platforms supported by the firm. The software development process requires in-depth subject matter expertise in existing and emerging development methodologies, tools, and programming languages. Software Developers work closely with business partners and / or external clients in defining requirements and implementing solutions. The Application Support Engineering role specializes in maintaining and providing technical support for all applications that are beyond the development stage and are running in the daily operations of the firm. Works closely with development teams, infrastructure partners, and internal / external clients to escalate and resolve technical support incidents.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Verify analysis performed by team members and implement changes required to prevent reoccurance of incidents
• Resolve Critical application alerts in a timely fashion including production defects, providing business impact and analysis to teams, handling minor enhancements as needed
• Review and update knowledge articles and runbooks with application development teams to confirm information is up to date
• Collaborate with internal teams to provide answers to application issues and escalate to as needed
• Validate and submit responses to requests for information from onging audits
• Review and Execute Disaster Recovery scripts during planned and unplanned outages, providing BCM evidence as needed
• Identify and implement automation opportunities to reduce manual effort associated with application monitoring
• Partner with development teams to provide input into the design and development stages of applications
• Execute the pre-production/production application code deployment plans and end to end vendor application upgrade process (e.g. SNOW, SF, etc)
• Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately

**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. ** 

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Technical Qualifications (Distributed/Cloud): 

• Hands on experience in Unix, Linux, Windows, SQL/PLSQL 
• Familiarity working with relational databases (DB2, Oracle, Snowflake) 
• Monitoring and Data Tools experience (Splunk, DynaTrace, Thousand Eyes, Grafana, Selenium, IBM Zolda) 
• Cloud Technologies (AWS services (S3,EC2,Lambda,SQS,IAM roles), Azure, OpenShift, RDS Aurora, Postgress) 
• Scheduling Tool experience (CA AutoSys, Control-M) 
• Middleware experience (Solace, Tomcat, Liberty Server, WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss) 
• Messaging Queue Systems (IBM MQ, Oracle AQ, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka) 
• Scripting languages (Bash, Python, Ruby, Shell, Perl, JavaScript) 
• Hands on experience with ETL tools (Informatica Datahub/IDQ, Talend ) 

Technical Qualifications (Mainframe): 

• Mainframe troubleshooting and support skills (COBOL, JCL, DB2, DB2 Stored Procedures, CICS, SPUFI, File aid) 
• Mainframe scheduling (Job abends, Predecessor/Successor) 

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. 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.

Salary Range: Salary will be Commensurate with Experience