What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director Solutions Architecture position at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)?
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.
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:
In this role, you will be responsible for the functional and technical design of business systems; integration of business services & information security; drives industry-specific best practices & standards; understands regulatory compliance needs; coordinates test planning & execution; provides leadership to AD teams and acts as technology liaison to all IT areas within DTCC, to the business partners, and to the industry. Leading projects, teams, code reviews are required to be able to lead by example.
Your Primary Responsibilities:
- As an expert application architect and senior software engineer, mission is to help lead our team of innovators and technologists toward crafting next-generation solutions that improve the way our business is run.
- Defines and factors in performance, scalability, availability, resiliency, security, maintainability, support, testing and cost requirements when making technology selection and application design decisions.
- Define approaches for modernizing legacy applications including migration to public or private cloud infrastructure.
- Own the engineering design practices of our software development organization.
Lead design reviews session.
- Collaborate with Infrastructure and Solution Architecture to choose efficient hosting environment.
- Focus on industry practices such as lose coupling of applications, standardization, apis, reusability, concepts of isolation, extensibility, extendibility and consistency of solutions while proposing and reviewing architectures.
- Identify and solve for non-functional requirements for the platform consumers.
- Ensures solutions adhere to security policies and standards of firm and industry.
- Conduct POCs for tools as seen fit for the area.
**NOTE: The Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **
Qualifications:
- Min 10 years' experience in software development and architecture
- Bachelor’s degree in computer software or related field and/or equivalent experience
Talents Needed for Success:
- Expertise in application, data, and infrastructure architecture subject areas.
- Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and standard processes.
- Sophisticated knowledge of software architecture, design, and development principles and practices.
- Experience with building messaging, event-driven, and cloud-native application architectures.
- Strong understanding of domain driven design and micro services architecture.
- Previous experience as the lead architect in designing, developing, and deploying high-transaction volume, business critical applications with very large user base.
- In-depth understanding of all aspects of the Java platform and the Spring family of frameworks.
- Expertise in working in in large, collaborative teams to achieve organizational goals.
- Passionate about building an innovative culture.
- Hands-on experience in application development
Extensive experience with:
- Java (Core & EE, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud)
- UI/UX (Angular or equivalent)
- SCM / DevOps / CI/CD tools & process (GIT/Bitbucket, Maven, Ant, Jenkins, Sonar)
- Web Technologies (JavaScript, HTML 5, CSS, JSON, REST, SOAP)
- Testing tools & frameworks (Jasmin/Karma, JUnit, Selenium, Cucumber, Mockito)
- Agile Methodology and Tools (JIRA)
- Experience with MicroServices & Layered (SOA/MVC) Architecture
- Experience with Integration patterns and messaging technologies (Solace, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Experience with Caching solutions (REDIS, Gemfire, EHCache)
- Experience with Cloud deployments (Private Cloud / AWS / Azure)
- Proven demonstration with Cloud Platforms, Container/Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry)
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.
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.
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:
In this role, you will be responsible for the functional and technical design of business systems; integration of business services & information security; drives industry-specific best practices & standards; understands regulatory compliance needs; coordinates test planning & execution; provides leadership to AD teams and acts as technology liaison to all IT areas within DTCC, to the business partners, and to the industry. Leading projects, teams, code reviews are required to be able to lead by example.
Your Primary Responsibilities:
- As an expert application architect and senior software engineer, mission is to help lead our team of innovators and technologists toward crafting next-generation solutions that improve the way our business is run.
- Defines and factors in performance, scalability, availability, resiliency, security, maintainability, support, testing and cost requirements when making technology selection and application design decisions.
- Define approaches for modernizing legacy applications including migration to public or private cloud infrastructure.
- Own the engineering design practices of our software development organization.
Lead design reviews session.
- Collaborate with Infrastructure and Solution Architecture to choose efficient hosting environment.
- Focus on industry practices such as lose coupling of applications, standardization, apis, reusability, concepts of isolation, extensibility, extendibility and consistency of solutions while proposing and reviewing architectures.
- Identify and solve for non-functional requirements for the platform consumers.
- Ensures solutions adhere to security policies and standards of firm and industry.
- Conduct POCs for tools as seen fit for the area.
**NOTE: The Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **
Qualifications:
- Min 10 years' experience in software development and architecture
- Bachelor’s degree in computer software or related field and/or equivalent experience
Talents Needed for Success:
- Expertise in application, data, and infrastructure architecture subject areas.
- Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and standard processes.
- Sophisticated knowledge of software architecture, design, and development principles and practices.
- Experience with building messaging, event-driven, and cloud-native application architectures.
- Strong understanding of domain driven design and micro services architecture.
- Previous experience as the lead architect in designing, developing, and deploying high-transaction volume, business critical applications with very large user base.
- In-depth understanding of all aspects of the Java platform and the Spring family of frameworks.
- Expertise in working in in large, collaborative teams to achieve organizational goals.
- Passionate about building an innovative culture.
- Hands-on experience in application development
Extensive experience with:
- Java (Core & EE, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud)
- UI/UX (Angular or equivalent)
- SCM / DevOps / CI/CD tools & process (GIT/Bitbucket, Maven, Ant, Jenkins, Sonar)
- Web Technologies (JavaScript, HTML 5, CSS, JSON, REST, SOAP)
- Testing tools & frameworks (Jasmin/Karma, JUnit, Selenium, Cucumber, Mockito)
- Agile Methodology and Tools (JIRA)
- Experience with MicroServices & Layered (SOA/MVC) Architecture
- Experience with Integration patterns and messaging technologies (Solace, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Experience with Caching solutions (REDIS, Gemfire, EHCache)
- Experience with Cloud deployments (Private Cloud / AWS / Azure)
- Proven demonstration with Cloud Platforms, Container/Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry)
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.
