Director, IT Delivery Governance & Portfolio Execution

About the role

At DTCC, you will work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight for the FINSIGHT Major Release Management and Evergreen functions, ensuring end-to-end planning, governance, and execution across multiple platforms.
• Lead and develop multiple IT teams, fostering a high-performance, accountability-driven culture while aligning delivery to broader organizational goals.
• Drive enterprise-wide collaboration across Engineering, Product, Operations, Risk, and other stakeholders to ensure timely, high-quality delivery of business initiatives.
• Establish and execute release governance frameworks, ensuring transparent communication of status, risks, mitigation strategies, and delivery progress to senior leadership.
• Spearhead continuous improvement of IT delivery processes, tooling, and metrics to enhance efficiency, predictability, and overall portfolio outcomes.
• Oversee technical debt remediation and security vulnerability management through the Evergreen model, aligning prioritization with release plans and risk reduction objectives.
• Present portfolio updates, key risks, trade-offs, and mitigation strategies in senior-level forums to enable informed decision-making and prioritization.
• Partner with key stakeholders to manage financial portfolio performance, leveraging metrics and data-driven insights to optimize investment allocation and delivery outcomes.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10+ years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred and/or equivalent experience

Skills

• Talents Needed For Success

• Inspires different approaches or ways of working.
• Inspires teams to constructively challenge established views.
• Presents information clearly in writing and orally in larger group settings.
• Convinces others on key topics by presenting persuasive arguments and alternative approaches.
• Sets an example for others by personally embracing change;
• Buils ownership for change by empowering others to lead change initiatives.
• Proactively seeks feedback from others on his/her own performance;
• Ensures that regular feedback is given in a constructive and behaviorally oriented manner.
• Supports an environment where individuals are respected for their contributions.
• Leverages AI tools to automate business problems and make processes more efficient.
• Acts as a role model for respect and inclusion by showing consideration for people’s different needs;
• Integrates people of different backgrounds within and across teams;
• Encourages others in the department to gain a deeper appreciation for different customs and beliefs.
• Demonstrates expertise in the organization's product/service offerings.
• Uses financial metrics to assess the department’s outcomes.

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 and Schedule

• Flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).