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Make an impact at DTCC

The DTCC IT EDGE Program offers accelerated professional development opportunities for recent university graduates. This 18-month rotational initiative enables Analysts to enhance both technical and leadership capabilities through practical work experience and a comprehensive training curriculum.

Additionally, the program features regular networking sessions that facilitate exposure to senior leaders across the organization. Dedicated managers are available to provide ongoing coaching and support throughout the duration of the program.

At DTCC, we help power the global financial markets by providing critical infrastructure that supports the safe and efficient processing of securities transactions. In this role, you will learn how your business area contributes to that broader mission while building practical skills through meaningful work, coaching, and structured development.

About the EDGE Program

EDGE is DTCC’s 18-month early-career development program for recent graduates. The program combines hands-on business experience, structured learning, mentorship, networking, and regular feedback to help analysts build technical, functional, and leadership capabilities.

What you will gain

• A structured onboarding experience, including Welcome Week and program orientation.
• Hands-on experience through meaningful work aligned to business priorities.
• Rotational experiences across relevant teams/functions.
• Monthly learning sessions, business education, professional development, and opportunities to hear from leaders and subject matter experts.
• Regular feedback, including a 90-day feedback and assessment milestone, manager coaching, and program check-ins.
• Mentorship, networking, and opportunities to build relationships across DTCC.

What you will do

Role Responsibilities

• Assist in the engineering, implementation, maintenance, and support of enterprise infrastructure platforms across distributed, mainframe, networking, database, private cloud, and public cloud services.
• Support automation, monitoring, observability, and reliability initiatives that improve platform stability, operational efficiency, scalability, resiliency, and secure delivery.
• Collaborate with infrastructure engineers, application teams, operations teams, architecture, cybersecurity, and other cross-functional stakeholders to troubleshoot issues, validate solutions, and support technology delivery.
• Participate in research, testing, performance analysis, capacity review, resiliency validation, documentation, reporting, and production readiness activities related to infrastructure services and platform capabilities.
• Contribute to infrastructure modernization efforts, including cloud adoption, infrastructure as code, lifecycle management, standard build patterns, operational process improvement, and reduction of manual work.
• Learn how infrastructure changes are governed, tested, released, and supported in a highly regulated environment where availability, security, resilience, and disciplined execution are essential.

What will help you succeed

Required

• Pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Network Engineering, Management Information Systems (MIS), Cloud Computing, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Expected graduation date: May 2027
• Minimum GPA: 3.2
• Authorization to work permanently in the United States without current or future sponsorship.
• Foundational understanding of computer systems, networking, operating systems, cloud concepts, scripting, or application/infrastructure support through coursework, projects, labs, prior work experience, or self-directed learning.

Preferred

• Internship, project, research, student organization, volunteer, or leadership experience related to infrastructure engineering, cloud platforms, systems administration, networking, cybersecurity, DevOps, database technologies, mainframe, or technology operations.
• Interest in financial services technology, operational resilience, cloud modernization, infrastructure automation, risk management, production stability, and supporting systems that are critical to market operations.
• Exposure to one or more relevant tools, platforms, or concepts such as Linux, Windows Server, Python, PowerShell, Bash, SQL, Git, CI/CD, public cloud services such as AWS or Azure, virtualization, containers, networking fundamentals, monitoring tools, infrastructure as code, or ServiceNow.
• Strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to analyze technical issues, document findings clearly, communicate risks or blockers, and follow through on assigned work.
• Interest in learning how enterprise infrastructure is designed, governed, tested, secured, released, monitored, and continuously improved in a large-scale IT organization.

What makes you successful

• Curiosity and a willingness to learn in a complex industry.
• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, and attention to detail.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Collaboration, accountability, adaptability, and follow-through.
• Ability to ask thoughtful questions, use feedback, and connect your work to team goals.

Benefits and work mode

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive opportunities, where applicable.
• Comprehensive health, wellness, retirement, and paid time off benefits based on location and eligibility.
• Hybrid work model: 3 days in office and 2 days remote, based on team schedule.

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.