JD for #33055 - Director of Platform Engineering - Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

Director of Platform Engineering

Optomi, in partnership with the world’s largest securities depository and a clearinghouse for trading settlement, is seeking an experienced Director of Platform Engineering for their Dallas, TX office! The right Director of Platform Engineering will be responsible for leading the modernization of the Scheduling platforms across mainframe and distributed environments. This Director will also be responsible for leading the Service Level Management function as well as work closely with clients and internal customers to improve clarity on real-time processing completion predictability. This Director of Platform Engineering will have 10 years of Information Technology management experience in a technology leadership/ functional lead role.

What the right candidate will enjoy!

• Opportunity to work with the world’s largest security depository and clearinghouse for trading settlement.
• Ability to further enhance their brand’s promise of leveraging their expertise, innovate purposefully, and deliver resilience and value to clients as well as the industry to achieve optimum performance.
• In 2022, their subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $2.5 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $72 trillion.
• Ability to work in a flexible hybrid role, as well as the opportunity to lead cross-functional teams.
• Being a part of a diverse and collaborative team with critical responsibilities within the Production stability team.

Experience of the right candidate:

• 10 years of Information Technology management experience in a technology leadership/ functional lead role.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field and/or related experience.
• Strong people leadership to drive critical, team and organizational transformation.
• Good interpersonal skills and experience working with clients, senior management and working with regulators / supervisors.
• Ability to work across teams to create partnerships that achieve organization goals, and passionate about building an innovative way of working.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills, ability to communicate technology concepts to IT as well as Business Management
• Prior Banking and Financial services proven experience, preferably banking, or Wealth/Investment Management
• Proven track record in strategic planning, business development, and client management, with experience in leading teams.
• Strong abilities on Data Analysis and strong financial foresight– ability to systematically apply a combination of inductive and deductive reasoning to examine information, interpret results and arrive at well-founded logical conclusions.
• Detail oriented, excellent at follow-through on actions, able to prioritize and focus on most urgent tasks.
• Familiarity with SDLC management & Agile
• Experience initiating and managing Continuous Improvement Projects, driving to successful delivery of improvements.
• Deep understanding of Mainframe delivery and distributed hosting, network, storage, messaging, identity management, encryption
• Must have experience with all aspects of Resilient data center management: multi-Region configuration, Disaster Recovery testing, and managing replication.

Responsibilities of the right candidate:

• Lead the modernization of the Scheduling platforms across mainframe and distributed environments.
• Lead the Service Level Management function and work closely with clients and internal customers to improve clarity on real-time processing completion predictability.
• Bring awareness of industry leading tools/technologies to develop long term strategies.
• Establish positive relationships with key vendors to ensure the best outcomes.
• Collaborate with all Technology teams ensuring they leverage the latest scheduling capabilities.
• Host regular meetings with Application Development and infrastructure service owners in each area to review status and address issues.
• Ensure that best practices developed for a single product line (such as Clearing) are shared with other product lines.
• Align with core ITIL Process including Change, Problem and Incident Management.
• Develop the core components for alignment with support teams for technology lifecycle management.
• Extensive involvement in audit and regulatory reviews as the leader of a critical governance function
• Ensure that tasks executed by the team have fully detailed procedures suitable for review by both internal and external auditors.
• Ensure that all engineering activities done by the team is fully in compliance with DTCC policies and standards.
• Participate in multiple forums across DTCC as a key technical collaborator on topics related to Disaster Recovery, Resilience, Application Hosting and foundational services (such as networking, storage, replication, identity management, messaging, etc).
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.