DTCC

Clears and settles securities trades for financial firms

Associate Director Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering +1Confirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-time

About the Job

Requirements

A minimum of 8 years of related experience.
A bachelor's degree is preferred, or equivalent experience.
Strong background in server virtualization, primarily VMware, planning, and design.
Experience modernizing legacy environments and implementing target-state architectures.
Solid understanding of enterprise networking, automation, orchestration, layer 2 and layer 3 connectivity, and storage technologies.
Knowledge of monitoring, telemetry, and observability practices.
Ability to translate business and operational needs into technical solutions.
Strong background in automation related to virtualization.
Experience working across engineering, operations, and governance stakeholders.
Strong documentation, communication, and problem-solving skills.
Excellent interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills.
Ability to support multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced work environment.
Analytical and strategic abilities.
Ability to provide guidance and governance to project teams.

Responsibilities

Design, manage, and optimize virtualized infrastructure platforms to ensure performance, availability, and scalability.
Lead modernization initiatives, including transforming 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 and solutions.
Provide technical design guidance and support to platform engineering teams.
Engage external vendors when needed to review methodologies and architecture and design proposals, and to address complex problems.
Contribute to strategic goals for Private Cloud engineering, the department, and the organization.
Create and update technical, architectural, and strategic documentation supporting the Private Cloud infrastructure.
Provide senior-engineering-level escalation and technical support to platform teams.
Collaborate with other teams to develop automation strategies and deployment processes.
Recommend and implement improvements to environment stability, security, efficiency, and scalability.
Maintain and improve platform configurations to meet customer demands and requirements.
Serve as a trusted coach or mentor within the organization.
Communicate openly and keep people across the organization informed.

Desired Qualifications

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.

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:

The Systems Engineering family is responsible for the entire technical effort to evolve and verify solutions that satisfy client needs. The primary focus is centered on reducing risk and improving the efficiency, performance, stability, security, and quality of all systems and platforms. The Platform Hosting & Engineering role specializes in the development, implementation, and support of all distributed, mainframe, and network hosting services across the firm. Responsible for the installation, configuration, programming, and support of operating systems, complex networks, and distributed environments, deploying solutions to increase overall system reliability across the firm.

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.

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: Associate Director-95,000-180,000-USD

About the Company

DTCC

Clears and settles securities trades for financial firms

DTCC provides the systems financial firms use to complete securities trades after buyers and sellers agree a transaction. Broker-dealers, banks and asset managers use its services to match trade details, calculate obligations, move securities and report transactions. Its NSCC and FICC subsidiaries clear equity and fixed-income trades, while DTC holds securities and handles settlement and payments such as dividends. By offsetting obligations between firms, its clearing services reduce the securities and cash that must change hands, and its repositories maintain derivatives transaction records for regulatory reporting. The parent was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Company size: 5,001-10,000
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Jersey City, NJ
Founded: 1999

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