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Lead Software Engineer

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Job Description

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.

Pay and 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.

  • 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).

The Impact you will have in this role:

Being a member of IT CSS-WRAFT Delivery team, you will be responsible for creating, designing, deploying, and supporting applications, programs, and software solutions. May include research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities related to software products used internally or externally on product platforms supported by the firm. The software development process requires in-depth subject matter expertise in existing and emerging development methodologies, tools, and programming languages. Software Developers work closely with business partners and / or external clients in defining requirements and implementing solutions. The Software Engineering role specializes in planning, documenting technical requirements, designing, developing, and testing all software systems and applications for the firm. Works closely with architects, product managers, project management, and end-users in the development and enhancement of existing software systems and applications, proposing and recommending solutions that solve complex business problems.


Your Primary Responsibilities:

  • Act as a technical expert on one or more applications utilized by DTCC

  • Work with the Business System Analyst to ensure designs satisfy functional requirements

  • Partner with Infrastructure to identify and deploy optimal hosting environments

  • Tune application performance to eliminate and reduce issues

  • Research and evaluate technical solutions consistent with DTCC technology standards

  • Align risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately

  • Apply different software development methodologies dependent on project needs

  • Contribute expertise to the design of components or individual programs, and participate in the construction and functional testing

  • Support development teams, testing, troubleshooting, and production support

  • Create applications and construct unit test cases that ensure compliance with functional and non-functional requirements

  • Work with peers to mature ways of working, continuous integration, and continuous delivery

  • Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately

Qualifications:

  • Minimum of 6 years of related experience

  • Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

  • Develop and maintain COBOL programs for batch and online processing in CICS regions.

  • Design and optimize DB2 SQL queries, stored procedures, and ensure compliance with DB2 standards and performance tuning guidelines. 

  • Implement IBM MQ messaging solutions for inter-system communication, ensuring secure and reliable message delivery. 

  • Perform JCL scripting for job scheduling and execution; troubleshoot abends and optimize batch performance. 

  • Ensure alignment to SDLC and release management processes, including change package creation and migration to production environments. 

  • Collaborate in Agile squads, provide estimates, participate in sprint planning, and deliver incremental value. 

  • Support production environments, including incident triage, root cause analysis, and resolution

  • Familiarity in using an enterprise job scheduler

  • Strong curiosity about using AI tools to improve efficiency and deliver high-quality software applications faster 

  • Fosters a culture where honesty and transparency are expected.

  • Stays current on changes in his/her own specialist area and seeks out learning opportunities to ensure knowledge is up-to-date.

  • Invests effort to individually coach others.

  • Builds collaborative teams across the organization.

  • Communicates openly keeping everyone across the organization informed.

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