Associate Director Software Engineering

Are 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 seek challenges with flexibility and patience, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and other leave of absence
• Flexible/Hybrid Work Arrangements

Why You Would Love This Job:

Being a member of IT SIFMU Delivery team, you will support core Clearing and Settlement applications for DTC, NSCC and FICC.

You will collaborate with your peers within and outside your area to ensure that any best practices/approaches/standards are reused. You would be part of an Agile squad and will collaborate with the Product Owner (PO) to understand the business needs and participate in planning, definition, and high-level technical design with the development team. You will collaborate with your peers within and outside your area to ensure that any best practices/approaches/standards are reused and designing elegantly and robustly.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Improve the squad's ability to meet these non-functional requirements by focusing on the client as well as our future state strategy.
• Understands corporate information security standards; ensures test plans validate security requirements
• Propose solutions that satisfy performance requirements; ensures test strategy validates performance requirements; tunes application performance issues
• Ensure the physical data model supports the performance, privacy and security requirements
• Design frameworks that promote concepts of isolation, extensibility, and extendibility
• Work with Infrastructure partners to stand up development, testing, and production environments; defines scalability and performance criteria for the product
• Innovation - Define and implement proofs of concept and reference architectures that support architecture direction by proving that new technologies and/or architecture patterns
• Risk Mitigation - Mitigates risk by establishing procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors, and demonstrating strong ethical behavior; develops the squad's risk management mindset.
• Technology Selection - Defines and articulates the pros / cons when making technology selection decisions; manages technology risk for the project team
• Organizational Savvy - Engages in activities to support the broader organization

Leadership Attributes

• Influence - The candidate will be an influential voice on the team, yet must also be a team player, empowering their peers, promoting accountability and responsibility
• Respect - The candidate must be someone the team will respect; when they bring something up, others listen and consider what they have to say
• Credibility - The candidate has credibility; they are believable; when they bring something up their peers consider it because the source is reliable.
• Communication - The candidate can communicate ideas effectively with peers and management
• Passion - The candidate is passionate on subjects like Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and agile ways of working
• Knowledge - The candidate is knowledgeable in the technology, concepts, and code quality practices
• Continuous improvement - The candidate has a history of continuously improving as a professional; self-motivated to learn new things by taking courses and attending conferences, within and outside of DTCC.
• Flexibility - The candidate is open minded and willing to consider and weigh different ideas against current practices
• Innovative / Creative - The candidate is willing to try new things and can think outside the box; generates new ideas and processes, and confidently pursues challenges as new avenues of opportunity.
• Performance - The candidate performs at a high level and seeks out the feedback of others to continuously improve
• Mentorship - The candidate can effectively mentor others through constructive feedback and coaching, enabling the squad to succeed
• Accountability - The candidate is reliable and takes necessary actions to continuously meet required deadlines and goals.
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Talent Needed for Success: 

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
• Serves as a trusted coach or mentor within the organization.
• Technologies: Java 8 (J2EE, J2SE) or later, multi-threading, Spring, Perl, Unix/Shell scripting, Spring JDBC/any other ORM framework, Mockito/PowerMockito JUnit frameworks.
• Oracle PL/SQL: Creating optimized queries, Writing Stored Procedures, Packages, Views, Triggers
• Tools: Eclipse, GIT, Bit Bucket, Jira, Agile, Maven, Jenkins, AutoSys Scheduler
• Nice to have: HTML 5, CSS 3.0, JQuery, Java script, JSP, CICD approach, Unit Testing, Code Coverage
• Experience with Agile engineering practices
• Strong communication skills. Works independently on standalone tasks , plus works in a group for complex tasks

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.

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