Software Engineering Principal

About the role

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 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. The 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead needed technical processes and designs considering reliability, data integrity, maintainability, reuse, extensibility, usability and scalability
• Collaborate with Infrastructure partners to identify and deploy optimal hosting environments
• Define scalability and performance criteria for assigned applications
• Work closely with the team and serve as a technical lead to implement and support application services built on RESTful and event-driven architectures.
• Work with Java, Spring Boot, SQL, JDBC, Oracle/Postgres/ Snowflake, Kafka to architect and implement scalable, resilient, and secure distributed application services.
• Work with container platforms like OpenShift to design and deploy containerized applications
• Work with tools like Maven, Jenkins, Bitbucket, HashiCorp vault to manage continuous builds and deployments.
• Ensure application meets the performance, privacy, and security requirements
• Tune application performance to eliminate and reduce issues
• Verify test plans to ensure compliance with performance and security requirements
• Support business and technical presentations in relation to technology platforms and business solutions
• Mitigate risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls
• Help develop solutions that balance cost and delivery while meeting business requirements implement technology-specific best practices that are consistent with corporate standards
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure the success of product strategy and project deliverables
• Manage the software development process
• Drive new technical and business process improvements
• Estimate total costs of modules/projects covering both hours and expense
• Research and evaluate specific technologies, and applications, and contributes to the solution design
• Construct application Architecture encompassing end-to-end designs
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Skills

• 8+ years of backend development experience in Java, Spring Boot
• Hands-on experience with message broker platforms like Kafka
• Hands-on with REST APIs and Kubernetes based container platforms
• Proficiency in object-oriented design patterns and programming techniques
• Familiarity with build, observability, and deployment tools – Splunk, Grafana, Maven, Jenkins, Dynatrace
• Experience working with large modular codebases and Mono repos for scalable code
• Familiarity with packaging and deploying back-end applications, preferably using Docker
• Experience with troubleshooting and resolution of complex production incidents
• Proficient communication skills
• Manage and mentor a team of engineers across multiple geographies
• Drive agile development practices, code reviews, support using modern code assistant tools like Amazon Q and technical excellence
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams including QA, DevOps, and Product Management
• Communicates openly keeping everyone across the organization informed

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.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual