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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 IT Enterprise Product & Platform Engineering team, the Head of Infrastructure Development and Modernization is responsible for defining and executing the strategy to modernize enterprise infrastructure across onpremises and public cloud environments. This role drives largescale transformation initiatives to improve platform resilience, scalability, security, and cost efficiency while enabling faster delivery of business and technology outcomes. 

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Own the enterprise infrastructure modernization strategy, including containers, operating systems, storage and virtualization 
• Define the enterprise software development standards and transformation framework, driving consistency, modernization, and adoption of modern engineering practices across platforms and teams. 
• Own the enterprise observability strategy, including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting to improve system reliability, performance, and operational insight. 
• Lead the design, build, and modernization of infrastructure services to support missioncritical financial market systems. 
• Drive adoption of cloudnative architectures, automation, InfrastructureasCode, AI and DevOps/SRE practices. 
• Manage and mentor architecture and engineering teams fostering growth, knowledge sharing and collaboration. 
• Establish and track operational KPIs related to availability, performance, cost optimization, and service reliability. 
• Lead and mentor infrastructure engineering and platform teams, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement. 
• Ensure infrastructure platforms meet regulatory, risk, and audit requirements applicable to financial markets environments. 

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

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10+ years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred and/or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with track record in technical leadership and managerial roles. 
• Experience with public cloud resiliency, testing, AI and automation pattern development, including python, ansible, terraform & chef. 
• Deep understanding of hybrid and cloud infrastructure, including compute, storage, networking, and container platforms. 
• Proven ability to lead large, complex transformation programs across multiple teams and stakeholders. 
• Experience operating in highavailability, regulated, or missioncritical environments. 
• Strong executive communication skills with the ability to translate technical strategy into business outcomes. 

Talents Needed for Success:

• Experience supporting financial services or financial markets technology environments. 
• Handson familiarity with container orchestration platforms, automation frameworks, and CI/CD enablement. 
• Experience implementing SRE, reliability engineering, or platform operating models. 
• Track record of driving cost transparency and optimization in infrastructure platforms. 

Leadership Competencies: 

• Strategic thinker with strong execution discipline 
• Influential leader who builds alignment across technology and business teams 
• Datadriven decision maker with a focus on risk and resilience 
• Champion of modernization, automation, and simplification 

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.

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork.  When you join our team, you'll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It's the chance to make a difference at a company that's truly one of a kind.

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