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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.\nThe 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.\nPay and Benefits:\nCompetitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive\n\nComprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location\n\nPension / Retirement benefits\n\nPaid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.\n\nDTCC 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).\n\nThe Impact you will have in this role:\nThe Executive Director, Software Engineering will lead the strategy, delivery, modernization, and operational performance of technology platforms supporting DTCC's Fixed Income business. This leader will oversee globally distributed engineering teams responsible for strategic modernization and public cloud migration of the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) technology platforms and services.\nThe role combines accountability for mission-critical production services with a transformational agenda focused on cloud adoption, platform modernization, resilience, security, and engineering excellence.\nWhat You Will Lead:\nFICC Cloud Migration\nEnd-to-end migration planning and execution across FICC applications, including real-time engines, batch processes, web platforms, data stores, messaging, reporting, and shared services.\n\nApplication-level roadmaps, migration waves, dependency management, environment readiness, testing, production parallel, cutover, stabilization, and legacy platform retirement.\n\nFormal synchronization with the parallel functional delivery track at strategic milestones to reconcile code, configuration, data, interfaces, and release dependencies before cloud go-live.\n\nTarget-State & Platform Alignment\nEnsure migration designs and implementation decisions align with the enterprise target-state vision, approved architecture patterns, platform engineering standards, and non-functional requirements for performance, resiliency, security, and observability.\n\nDrive the adoption of cloud-native and service-based architectures that support scalability, operational readiness, and long-term sustainability.\n\nReduce technology risk through vulnerability remediation, modernization, and the retirement of legacy platforms.\n\nKey Responsibilities:\nDefine and execute the FICC cloud migration strategy, integrated roadmap, delivery plan, and measurable outcomes across the application portfolio.\n\nPartner with Product, Architecture, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Operations, and Business leaders to deliver strategic outcomes.\n\nDrive engineering standards, scalability, performance, resilience, and operational excellence.\n\nOversee budgets, workforce planning, vendor management, technology risk, and executive reporting.\n\nBuild leadership capability, succession depth, and accountability across global engineering teams.\n\n**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above.\nSuccess Measures\nStable, secure, and resilient platforms supporting business growth and client demands.\n\nReduced technology risk through modernization and retirement of legacy platforms.\n\nIncreased adoption of reusable shared services across Fixed Income Clearing Corporation.\n\nImproved engineering efficiency, operational readiness, monitoring, and recovery capabilities.\n\nStrong global leadership team with clear accountability and succession plans.\n\nQualifications & Experience\n15+ years of technology leadership experience, including executive responsibility for large-scale software engineering organizations.\n\nProven experience operating mission-critical platforms in highly regulated or high-availability environments.\n\nDemonstrated success leading large-scale modernization and cloud transformation initiatives.\n\nDeep knowledge of enterprise architecture, software engineering, systems integration, resilience, performance, and secure development practices.\n\nExperience managing complex portfolios, budgets, vendors, and global teams.\n\nStrong executive presence with the ability to influence senior business and technology stakeholders.\n\nPreferred Experience\nFinancial market infrastructure, clearing, settlement, post-trade processing, or another highly regulated and operationally critical industry.\n\nLeadership experience with AWS migrations involving Java applications, container platforms, Oracle databases, messaging, APIs, batch processing, and event-driven architectures.\n\nExperience with wave-based migration, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, production parallel, cutover planning, configuration and code-baseline synchronization, and legacy decommissioning.\n\nLeadership Profile\nThe successful candidate is a strategic and pragmatic technology leader who prioritizes client outcomes, service stability, and long-term platform sustainability. They build strong partnerships, simplify complexity, establish accountability, and develop high-performing engineering organizations capable of driving both operational excellence and transformational change.\nThe 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. 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