Director Platform Engineering

Company: DTCC
Location: Jersey City
Posted on: January 12, 2021

Job Description:

Director Platform Engineering - 201680 - Boston, Jersey CityAre you ready to explore a world of possibilities?Join our DTCC family, and you'll grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you'll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life.Why you'll love this job:The Director, Platform Engineering acts as a leader in Information Technology (IT) and is responsible for contributing to the creation of platform strategies and implementing the supporting solutions, managing and developing talent to support that direction, prioritizing associated work based on business requirements, and supporting a growing user community in a fast-paced environment.Your Responsibilities:* Assume full responsibility for the Transformative Engineering Area and consistently demonstrate mastery of IT environment (i.e. infrastructure, production, security, data, applications, etc.).* Identify, advocate and implement technical solutions that advance our ability to deliver new business capabilities to the market, quickly, securely and in a risk aware manner.* Demonstrate thought leadership in private and public cloud services across multiple channels and become a trusted advisor to senior decision makers within DTCC.* Ensure proper disciplines and controls within the IT environment, as evidenced by strong audits and exams.* Serve as a "Change Agent" who brings a sense of urgency and can mobilize resources and execute initiatives on time.* Understand how technology works, bring a passion for technology, know the questions to ask, and be able dig into the details.* Develop a strong partnership with business line leaders, IT members, and the operations team. Understand the business/process making sure the technology delivery is seamless.* Communicate technical issues to a non-tech audience and to be an effective bridge from business to technology.* Effectively plan and track multiple large and/or complex projects and communicate status to management and project teams. Identify problem areas and alternative solutions.* Listen, learn, adapt, share, and advance ideas that support the vision of a world-class infrastructure.* Fosters a risk management culture through implementation and demonstration of processes and procedures which identify and mitigate risk* Mitigates risk by following established procedures, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.Talents Needed for Success:* Minimum of 10 years of related experience* Bachelor's degree preferred with Masters or equivalent experience* Experience with managing an IT environment, data, applications, and projects at the enterprise level (i.e. experience with balancing the different factors and competing demands of a multi-faceted, complex IT environment).* Broad understanding of industry trends across software development / architecture, cloud operating platforms and data* Experience with the planning, design and the implementation of a Container Service, preferably with OpenShift.* Prior Financial Services experience is highly preferred. Alternatively, must have prior experience or appreciation for working in a regulated environment (i.e. financial services, insurance, healthcare, etc.). This includes a track record of successfully partnering with industry regulators.* Proven ability to manage and maintain a very strong control environment.About DTCC DTCC safeguards the financial markets and helps them run efficiently, in times of prosperity and crisis. We are uniquely positioned at the center of global trading activity, processing over 100 million financial transactions every day, pioneering industry-wide, post-trade solutions and maintaining multiple data and operating centers worldwide. From where we stand, we can anticipate the industry's needs and we're working to continually improve the world's most resilient, secure and efficient market infrastructure. Our employees are driven to deliver innovative technologies that improve efficiency, lower cost and bring stability and certainty to the post-trade lifecycle. Our work environment favors 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. Enterprise Product & Platform Engineering transforms the way we deliver infrastructure to our business clients. A key construct of EP&PE will be the evolution of the IT Product Manager, who will partner with the Engineering organization, the Business Aligned Service Delivery organization, the DevSecOps organization as well as our operational support teams to ensure that this organization provides high quality, commercially attractive and timely solutions to support our business strategy.

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