Business Systems Analysis Principal

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).

Your Primary Responsibilities: 

• Owning requirements quality from business vision through delivery.
• Elicit, analyze, document, and validate business requirements.
• Ensure functional requirements are complete, testable, and aligned with business objectives.
• Lead workflow design and contribute to user experience design, where applicable
• Collaborate with project team, product management, and stakeholders on all aspects of the project
• Review input provided to developers and Test Engineers ensuring System Integration and User Acceptance Test scripts properly reflect business and functional requirements
• Participate in reviews of SIT results and defect reviews; support user acceptance testing as needed
• Review system documentation to ensure compliance with company-specific best practices and standards
• Review recommended controls to ensure remediation of perceived risks
• Providing data-driven analysis and production issue support
• Supporting audit, and control obligations.

Qualifications:

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

Talents Needed for Success:

• 7+ years of hands-on business systems analysis experience in risk, valuation, clearing, banking, asset management, or a comparable capital markets environment, with demonstrated ownership of both analytical work and detailed requirements definition.
• Strong pricing and valuation domain expertise including cleared position valuation, price source hierarchy, fallback logic, price validation, tolerance checks, stale or thinly traded securities, corporate actions, and governance for manual marks and overrides.
• Deep understanding of liquidity and closeout risk concepts including margin period of risk, holding period assumptions, liquidity add-ons, concentration measures, market impact, bid-ask cost, default management, auction mechanics, and liquidity stress testing.
• Product knowledge across at least one cleared asset class such as equities, fixed income, or repo, with a practical understanding of how instruments are priced and where valuation uncertainty or fragility may arise.
• Exceptional specification discipline with the ability to produce clear calculation specifications, worked numerical examples, explicit edge cases, and acceptance criteria that are precise, testable, and implementation-ready.
• Strong data and analytical capability with advanced SQL skills and practical proficiency in Python or advanced Excel to independently reconcile production outputs, validate methodology prototypes, and perform root-cause analysis.
• Fluency in time, versioning, and point-in-time data semantics including as-of reconstruction, price versioning, supersession, and time-series alignment across multiple sources and time zones, particularly where restated prices can affect previously published results.
• Proven agile delivery partnership with experience writing user stories and acceptance criteria, working within delivery squads, and collaborating effectively with engineering, QA, business users, and UAT stakeholders.
• Regulatory and model validation awareness including familiarity with liquidity risk management expectations under SEC Rule 17Ad-22, CPMI-IOSCO principles, and the documentation and evidence needed to support model validation reviews.
• Credibility across business, methodology, and technology stakeholders with the judgment to clarify ambiguous methodology requirements, drive alignment, and translate decisions into requirements engineering can implement with confidence.

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.