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Lead Scrum Master

Tampa, FL · Hybrid

$48.75 - $65/hr

... vocal, senior stakeholders with clarity and presence. Success requires the ability to drive ... Partner with technology leads, engineering teams, product owners, and business stakeholders to ...

Lead Scrum Master

Tampa, FL · On-site

$48.75 - $65/hr

... vocal, senior stakeholders with clarity and presence. Success requires the ability to drive ... Partner with technology leads, engineering teams, product owners, and business stakeholders to ...

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Vocal Engineer information

What is a vocal engineer?

Vocal engineers are audio professionals who specialize in recording, editing, and mixing vocals for music, podcasts, film, or other audio projects. They work closely with vocalists and producers to capture the best possible vocal performances, using specialized microphones, preamps, and software tools. Their responsibilities also include removing unwanted noises, tuning vocals, and applying effects to enhance the clarity and quality of the vocal tracks. Vocal engineers play a crucial role in ensuring that vocals sound polished and balanced within a mix.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a vocal engineer, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Vocal Engineer, you need a solid understanding of audio engineering principles, microphone techniques, and vocal production, ideally supported by relevant education or experience in music technology. Proficiency with digital audio workstations (DAWs) like Pro Tools, Logic Pro, plug-ins, and studio hardware is typically required. Strong attention to detail, communication skills, and the ability to collaborate creatively with artists and producers set top professionals apart. These skills ensure the delivery of high-quality vocal recordings that meet artistic and technical standards in competitive music environments.

What are some common challenges a vocal engineer faces when working with artists in the studio?

A Vocal Engineer often encounters challenges such as capturing the artist’s best performance while ensuring technical sound quality. Balancing the unique vocal characteristics of different singers with the desired production style can require creative problem-solving and adaptability. Additionally, managing studio time efficiently and communicating effectively with both artists and producers are essential to achieving the best results. Handling varying microphone techniques and addressing issues like sibilance, plosives, or room acoustics are also frequent technical hurdles.

What is the difference between Vocal Engineer vs Sound Engineer?

AspectVocal EngineerSound Engineer
CredentialsAudio engineering certifications, vocal production experienceAudio engineering certifications, general audio knowledge
Work EnvironmentRecording studios, live performance venues focusing on vocalsRecording studios, live events covering all audio aspects
Industry UsageMusic production, vocal-focused projectsMusic, film, broadcast, live sound

Vocal Engineers specialize in capturing and enhancing vocal performances, often working closely with singers and producers. Sound Engineers have a broader role, managing all audio elements across various media. While both roles require similar certifications and work environments, Vocal Engineers focus specifically on vocals, making them essential for projects emphasizing vocal clarity and quality.

Are vocal engineers in demand?

Vocal engineers are in demand in the music, film, and broadcasting industries, especially as audio production and recording technology advance. Skilled professionals with knowledge of digital audio workstations, mixing, and acoustics are sought after for studio and live sound environments.

How much does a vocal engineer make?

A vocal engineer's salary typically ranges from $40,000 to $80,000 annually, depending on experience, location, and the complexity of projects. Entry-level engineers may earn less, while experienced professionals working in major markets or with high-profile clients can earn higher wages, often supplemented by freelance work or project-based fees.

Lead Scrum Master

Tampa, FL • Hybrid

The Depository Trust Clearing
Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Financial Investments • 5 - 10K employees

$48.75 - $65/hr

Full-time

Medical, Life, Retirement, PTO

Re-posted 7 days ago


Key responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end planning and execution framework for complex projects, ensuring initiatives are structured, tracked, and delivered against milestones and priorities

  • Partner with technology leads, engineering teams, product owners, and stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into high-level project plans with dependencies and deliverables

  • Drive project execution across multiple initiatives by establishing routines, maintaining momentum, and ensuring stakeholder alignment


Job description

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 MCT Planning and Project Management team, you will play a critical role in driving structure, execution, and accountability across complex, cross-functional initiatives. You will act as an owner partnering closely with technology leads, area leads, product owners, and senior stakeholders to translate business and technical requirements into clear, actionable delivery plans. In this role, you will independently organize work, establish milestones, manage interdependencies, and keep teams aligned against shared objectives in a fastmoving environment. The ideal candidate brings a strong delivery mindset, confidently facilitates discussions across technical and business teams, and is comfortable engaging vocal, senior stakeholders with clarity and presence. Success requires the ability to drive execution with limited handholding, create structure where needed, proactively identify and mitigate risks early, and communicate effectively to leadership on progress, issues, and decisions. While a technical background is highly valued, the most important qualities are ownership, planning discipline, accountability, and the ability to move teams forward.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

  • Own the end-to-end planning and execution framework for complex projects, ensuring initiatives are structured, tracked, and delivered against agreed milestones and business priorities
  • Partner with technology leads, engineering teams, product owners, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into high-level project plans with clear dependencies, deliverables, and accountability
  • Drive day-to-day project execution across multiple concurrent initiatives by establishing routines, maintaining momentum, and ensuring stakeholders remain aligned and accountable
  • Lead cross-functional discussions across infrastructure, development, and business teams to resolve blockers, clarify priorities, and maintain forward progress
  • Build and maintain project structures and artifacts including project plans, status updates, milestones, dashboards, RAID logs, and executive-ready communications
  • Proactively identify delivery risks, estimate potential impacts early, and implement mitigation plans while escalating effectively to leadership when needed
  • Establish and reinforce strong planning discipline across teams, including the use of tools such as Jira to support execution hygiene, transparency, and progress tracking
  • Define, manage, and monitor cross-team dependencies and ensure ownership is clear across all contributors through structured delivery practices such as RACI-based accountability
  • Provide regular project status updates to sponsors and senior leadership, highlighting progress, decisions needed, risks, mitigations, and overall delivery health
  • Support iterative planning and modern delivery practices, while balancing agile execution with critical business deadlines and milestones
  • Lead change management activities where required and ensure teams are prepared to execute through changing priorities and evolving project scope
  • Align risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk appropriately and escalate when necessary

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

Qualifications:

  • Minimum 6 years of related experience in project or program management
  • Bachelor's degree (preferred) or equivalent experience
  • Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives in technical environments
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining strong organization, execution discipline, and stakeholder alignment

Talents Needed for Success:

  • Strong ownership mentality with the ability to take direction, build a plan, and drive execution with minimal oversight
  • Confident communicator who can speak up, challenge constructively, and operate effectively with senior leaders and strong personalities
  • Demonstrated strength in project planning, dependency management, risk identification, and proactive mitigation
  • Ability to create structure in ambiguous environments and drive clarity across cross-functional squads
  • Strong facilitation skills with experience leading routines, discussions, and execution forums across technical and business teams
  • Experience using project management tools such as Jira to improve planning discipline, visibility, and delivery rigor
  • Comfort operating in hybrid project environments, including delivery leadership, coordination, and where needed, support for agile execution practices
  • Technical background or technical fluency is strongly preferred; however, strong project leadership, presence, and execution capability are most critica
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to tailor messaging for executive and technical audiences
  • Ability to manage 1-3 or more concurrent initiatives while maintaining accountability, momentum, and high-quality delivery outcomes

We offer top class training and development for you to be an asset in our organization!

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.

With over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes, bringing enhanced resilience and soundness to existing financial markets while advancing the digital asset ecosystem. In 2024, DTCC's subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $3.7 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $99 trillion. DTCC's Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 25 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at www.dtcc.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.

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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IT Architecture and Enterprise Services are responsible for enabling digital transformation of DTCC. The group manages complexity of the technology landscape within DTCC and enhances agility, robustness and security of the technology footprint. It does so by serving as the focal point for all technology architectural activities in the organization as well as engineering a portfolio of foundational technology assets to enable our digital transformation.