Associate Director Platform Engineering

About the role

The Enterprise Storage Architect/Engineer plays a critical role within the Solutions Design Services (SDS) team at DTCC. This role involves defining, standardizing, and evolving enterprise storage architectures across on-premises and cloud environments. The primary responsibilities include owning and evolving enterprise storage architecture standards, designing scalable storage solutions, driving automation, and serving as a thought leader.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve enterprise storage architecture standards, design guidelines, and SDS reference architectures.
• Design scalable block, file, and object storage solutions for enterprise workloads across hybrid environments.
• Serve as a design authority in SDS architecture and design reviews, ensuring consistency, reuse, and long-term sustainability.
• Drive automation-by-default and IaC-first delivery of storage provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Define standard observability patterns for storage platforms including metrics, logging, alerting, dashboards, and runbooks.
• Architect data protection, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions aligned with business resiliency objectives.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools for anomaly detection, root cause analysis, capacity forecasting, and operational efficiency.
• Partner with compute, networking, security, OS, and container platform teams to ensure integrated enterprise solutions.
• Produce high-quality documentation including standards, reference architectures, and operational guidance.
• Provide L3/L4 engineering support for complex production issues, focusing on permanent remediation.
• Act as a recognized subject-matter expert and thought leader for enterprise storage within SDS and partner organizations.
• Contribute to enterprise storage strategy, modernization roadmaps, and long-term platform evolution.
• Research emerging storage technologies, industry trends, and best practices, assessing applicability to the enterprise.
• Represent SDS in architecture forums, governance bodies, vendor briefings, and technical communities of practice.
• Author and socialize whitepapers, recommendations, and design position statements to guide decision-making.
• Mentor engineers and architects, raising overall storage, automation, and observability maturity across teams.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience.
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.
• Strong expertise in block, file, and object storage platforms in on-premises and cloud environments.
• Demonstrated experience influencing architecture standards and enterprise-wide technical direction.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Working knowledge of observability concepts including metrics, telemetry, and alerting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills suitable for executive, architecture, and governance forums.
• Experience treating storage as a programmable platform or service.
• Experience integrating enterprise storage with containerized and cloud-native workloads.
• Exposure to AI/ML-assisted operational or AIOps-style tooling.
• Relevant vendor, SNIA, or cloud architecture certifications.
• History of publishing, presenting, or leading technical initiatives across organizations.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience.
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.
• Strong expertise in block, file, and object storage platforms in on-premises and cloud environments.
• Demonstrated experience influencing architecture standards and enterprise-wide technical direction.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Working knowledge of observability concepts including metrics, telemetry, and alerting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills suitable for executive, architecture, and governance forums.
• Experience treating storage as a programmable platform or service.
• Experience integrating enterprise storage with containerized and cloud-native workloads.
• Exposure to AI/ML-assisted operational or AIOps-style tooling.
• Relevant vendor, SNIA, or cloud architecture certifications.
• History of publishing, presenting, or leading technical initiatives across organizations.

Skills

• Strong expertise in block, file, and object storage platforms in on-premises and cloud environments.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Working knowledge of observability concepts including metrics, telemetry, and alerting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills suitable for executive, architecture, and governance forums.
• Experience treating storage as a programmable platform or service.
• Experience integrating enterprise storage with containerized and cloud-native workloads.
• Exposure to AI/ML-assisted operational or AIOps-style tooling.
• Relevant vendor, SNIA, or cloud architecture certifications.
• History of publishing, presenting, or leading technical initiatives across organizations.

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.

Pay

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.

Schedule

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).