Director Application Architecture

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're 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.

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 :

Responsible for creating, communicating, and facilitating alignment to enterprise-wide application architecture, technology strategy and standards, architecture and design principals, guidelines, and common solutions. Responsible for advancing application architecture in support of DTCC's business and IT strategy and developing roadmaps and blueprints to ensure architecture goals are met in both tactical and strategic frames. Collaborates with a broad range of team members including business, Application Development, risk domains, operations, OCIO, etc. to assure solutions efficiently address a wide range of functional and non-functional requirements vital to uphold the DTCC brand image and meet industry needs.

You will require to have highly sophisticated technical skills in multiple technical domains along with demonstrated ability to master new technical domains to a level sufficient to contribute to the technology strategy, vision, requirements, and solutions for large-scale initiatives or as needed. Exceptional teamwork, communication, and leadership skills, particularly the ability to influence, are vital to being effective in this position. Specialized knowledge of DTCC applications and/or financial industry post trade solutions is a significant differentiator among candidates. Candidates who lack such knowledge will be expected to rapidly develop financial industry post trade domain knowledge. Position requires highly advanced analytical skills and demonstrated leadership capability.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

Solutions Architecture

• Understand business needs and IT strategy and assets to identify optimal solution architecture appropriate to business needs and technology context
• Understand implementation context and team capabilities to provide appropriate guidance for team to successfully implement solution architecture
• Work with a range of collaborators to assure solution architecture enables solution team to address the needs of all stakeholders
• Assist with early-stage solution development including contributing to business cases and estimation
• Assist with project execution including input to project planning and risk identification
• Assist with closure including assessing and helping managing risks to closure

Application Architecture Practice

• Research leading ideas, methodologies, and technology to enable superior delivery capabilities.
• Develop business analysis / business case for adoption of changes in DTCC application architecture practices
• Assist compliance and governance when adopting new practices as well as partnering in development of appropriate governance for new technologies and application architecture practices

Application Architecture

• Drafts conceptual and logical architecture specifications at both the enterprise and project level
• Assists project teams and Product Managers when documenting new functionality to assure compliance with project-appropriate enterprise processes (SDLC/Waterfall, Agile, DevOps)
• Assist during system design with the drafting of logical architectural models
• Assist to promote the efficient re-use of IT assets
• Advises project team during system development to assure compliance with architectural principles, guideline, and standards
• Shares DTCC’s architectural vision with stakeholders through informal discussion and formal presentations
• Ensures application designs meet the architectural blueprint for business applications
• Provides technical mentorship to multi-functional, cross-platform application development teams

Technology Architecture

• Contributes to the technology strategy, vision, requirements, and solutions for large-scale domain specific initiatives
• Contributes to "buy vs. build" analyses of proposed business solutions
• Identifies, understands, and documents extensions to, and variants from, architectural guidelines
• Promotes the development of, and alignment to, processes which assure consistent methods for development of new or enhanced business capabilities by:
• Representing the Domain to interested management committees
• Interacting with the Architecture Office to help define, publish and maintain processes for compliance to architectural principles, guidelines and standards
• Interacting with the Architecture Office to help define, publish and maintain processes for software development and deployment, evaluation and selection of third-party products, and retirement of obsolete technologies.

Application Design & Development

• Works with OCIO and developers to determine software and hardware requirements and for planning and delivering business solutions
• Researches and evaluates alternative solutions and recommends the most efficient and cost-effective solution for system design
• Analyzes and assists with estimation, feasibility, cost, time, and compatibility with platform and other programs
• Provides senior level consulting services to augment team skills and provide hands-on education

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

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field or equivalent work experience
• 10 years hands-on experience in application development
• 5 years in leadership roles (team lead, design lead, line manager, etc.

Talents Needed for Success:

• Possess a detailed understanding of common software implementation methodologies (Waterfall, Agile)
• Technical skills include current leading technologies, particularly Web and Cloud related technologies
• Maintains current knowledge of marketplace changes, technology changes, and client businesses relevant to the Domain
• Demonstrates sophisticated analytical skills
• Demonstrates advanced verbal, visual and written communication skills in technical domains
• Demonstrates leadership skills, particularly soft-skills and ability to influence
• Securities industry background preferred
• Years of experience in post-trade processing of global financial transactions is a huge plus

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.

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.