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:

The Development family is responsible for creating, designing, deploying, and supporting applications, programs, and software solutions. May include research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities related to software products used internally or externally on product platforms supported by the firm. The software development process requires in-depth subject matter expertise in existing and emerging development methodologies, tools, and programming languages. Software Developers work closely with business partners and / or external clients in defining requirements and implementing solutions. The Software Engineering role specializes in planning, documenting technical requirements, designing, developing, and testing all software systems and applications for the firm. Works closely with architects, product managers, project management, and end-users in the development and enhancement of existing software systems and applications, proposing and recommending solutions that solve complex business problems.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

Lead needed technical processes and designs considering reliability, data integrity, maintainability, reuse, extensibility, usability and scalability
Collaborate with Infrastructure partners to identify and deploy optimal hosting environments
Define scalability and performance criteria for assigned applications
Ensure application meets the performance, privacy, and security requirements
Tune application performance to eliminate and reduce issues
Verify test plans to ensure compliance with performance and security requirements
Support business and technical presentations in relation to technology platforms and business solutions
Mitigate risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls
Help develop solutions that balance cost and delivery while meeting business requirements
implement technology-specific best practices that are consistent with corporate standards
Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure the success of product strategy and project deliverables
Manage the software development process
Drive new technical and business process improvements
Estimate total costs of modules/projects covering both hours and expense
Research and evaluate specific technologies, and applications, and contributes to the solution design
Construct application Architecture encompassing end-to-end designs
Mitigates risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

Talents Needed for Success:
Minimum of 8 years of related experience
Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
Hands-on software engineering experience building and supporting large-scale enterprise systems.
Expert-level Java development (Core Java, Java EE) and Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot/Spring Cloud), including ownership of REST API design standards, service contracts, and backward compatibility.
Proven experience leading microservices architecture (SOA/MVC/layered patterns), domain modeling, and integration with legacy platforms; able to make and defend trade-offs across performance, reliability, and time-to-market.
Strong engineering fundamentals across web technologies (JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, JSON) and service integrations (REST/SOAP), with ability to influence API/UI contracts and end-to-end design.
Strong database engineering skills (Oracle preferred): SQL/PL/SQL, data modeling, performance tuning, and guidance on data access patterns.
Strong containerization and orchestration experience (Docker, Kubernetes); ability to design for operability (health checks, scaling, resiliency). OpenShift experience is a plus.
Strong CI/CD ownership mindset with tools such as Git/Bitbucket, Maven, Jenkins, Jira; able to define branching/release strategies and drive engineering efficiency.
Experience defining and implementing test strategy (unit/integration/UI) and automation using frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber, Selenium, and Jasmine/Karma as applicable.
Strong experience with messaging and integration patterns (e.g., MQ, Kafka), including event-driven design considerations (ordering, idempotency, retries, schema evolution).
Strong Agile delivery experience (Scrum/Kanban), including leading technical execution, raising delivery predictability, and improving team practices.
Security-by-design experience across authentication/authorization (OAuth, JWT, mutual authentication, basic auth) and secure API practices.
Demonstrated technical leadership: mentoring engineers, influencing across teams, and driving continuous improvement through pragmatic decision-making.

Preferred Qualifications (Plus):
Cloud-native experience (AWS preferred) including container platforms (Kubernetes/OpenShift), infrastructure-as-code, and modern deployment strategies.
Event streaming and messaging experience at scale (Kafka/Confluent, MQ).
Experience with modern data platforms (e.g., PostgreSQL, Snowflake) and integrating services with analytical/streaming workloads.
Strong observability and reliability engineering practices (metrics/logging/tracing, SLOs/SLAs, incident response, root cause analysis).
Experience with secure software delivery practices and automated quality gates (dependency scanning, code quality tooling).
Additional backend and tooling experience (Python, Node.js) used in production systems and engineering enablement.
Front-end experience beyond Angular (e.g., React) and building reusable UI components/design systems.
Experience working effectively with geographically distributed teams and influencing technical decisions across multiple squads.

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.