Job DescriptionAre 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:The Enterprise Storage Architect/Engineer is a senior technical leader within the Solutions Design Services (SDS) team, responsible for defining, standardizing, and evolving enterprise storage architectures across on-premises and cloud environments. In addition to architecture and delivery leadership, this role is expected to serve as a thought leader-helping shape enterprise direction, influence strategy, and represent best practices in modern storage, automation, and operational excellence.
Primary 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.
Qualifications: - Minimum of 8 years of related experience
- Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
Talents Needed for Success: - 8+ years of experience designing and engineering large-scale enterprise storage environments (non-mainframe).
- 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.
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.
About UsWith over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes, bringing enhanced resilience and soundness to existing financial markets while advancing the digital asset ecosystem. In 2024, DTCC's subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $3.7 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $99 trillion. DTCC's Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 25 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at www.dtcc.com or connect with us on LinkedIn , X , YouTube , Facebook and Instagram .
DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you'll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It's the chance to make a difference at a company that's truly one of a kind.
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About the TeamServes as a dedicated technology resource for advancing DTCC's business opportunities and providing industry thought leadership for leveraging new technology. The goal of this new department is to partner internally with IT, our business and regulatory divisions and externally with clients, regulators, and fintech vendors, to help build new platforms and business models to advance DTCC's mission to support the financial markets.
