Associate Director Application Support Engineering

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, the Enterprise Application Support 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.  This role works closely with development teams, infrastructure partners, and internal clients to advance and resolve technical support incidents. 

3 days onsite is mandatory with 2 optional days remote work (Onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day of your choosing) 

Maybe required to work Tuesday through Saturday or Sunday through Thursday on rotational or permanent basis. 

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead or help lead technical team(s) in a fast-paced 24X7 environment across multiple geographical regions. 
• Experience with using ITIL Change, Incident and Problem management processes.  
• Resolve critical production issues by leading Major Incident calls, engaging proper teams, and driving root cause analysis. 
• Troubleshoot and debug system component(s) to resolve technical issues in complex and highly regulated environments comprised of ground and cloud applications and services. 
• Analyze proposed application design(s) and provide feedback on potential gaps or provide recommendations for optimization. 
• Hands-on experience with Monitoring and Alerting processes in Distributed, Cloud and Mainframe environments. 
• Knowledge and understanding of cyber security best practices and general security concepts like password rotation, access restriction and malware detection. 
• Help lead Monthly Service Reviews (MSR) with Development partners to go over KPI metrics. 
• Participate in Disaster Recovery / Loss of Region events (planned and unplanned) executing tasks and collecting evidence. 
• Collaborate both within the team and across teams to resolve application issues and escalate as needed. 
• Support audit requests in a timely fashion providing needed documentation and evidence. 
• Plan and execute certificate creation/renewals as needed. 
• Create, Modify and Monitor Dashboards to better catch potential issues and aide in observability. 
• Strong ability to gather and analyze project requirements and translate them into technical specification(s). 
• Deep understanding of all lifecycle components (code, test, deploy). 
• Good verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills, communicating openly with team members and others. 
• Champion a culture where honesty and transparency are expected. 
• On-call support with flexible work arrangement. 

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

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant Production support experience. 
  • Minimum of 3 years Lead/Managing small technical team(s) in a fast-paced 24X7 environment (On-site and Offshore Model). 
  • Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience. 

Technical Qualifications (Distributed): 

• 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, HiPam,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