Lead Systems Engineer

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.

DTCC Solutions delivers information-based and business processing solutions to financial intermediaries globally.

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 Systems Engineering family is responsible for the entire technical effort to evolve and verify solutions that satisfy client needs. The primary focus is centered on reducing risk and improving the efficiency, performance, stability, security, and quality of all systems and platforms. The Systems Engineering role specializes in the analysis, evaluation, design, testing, implementation, support, and debugging of all middleware, mainframe, and distributed platforms, tools, and systems of the firm.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Support the Web Middleware Technology Team in onboarding new applications using Chef and CI/CD pipelines and work on lifecycle management of SSL certificates.
• Assist the development team in repairing the applications for Tomcat issues.
• Designing, developing, and deploying the applications by utilizing Chef, Ansible, Jenkins and GitLab within a robust Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.
• Orchestrating the seamless installation and configuration of middleware software systems for the smooth integration and operation.
• Leverage OpenShift to containerize applications, enabling easy movement across different environments and efficient scaling as needed.
• Utilize AWS Cloud Services to efficiently manage and support various aspects of the organization's infrastructure.
• Life cycle management of SSL certificates like creation, renewal, retention, and revocation
• Ensuring the application of necessary security patches to the servers to safeguard against potential vulnerabilities.
• Collaborating with various teams on projects, propose solutions, and address the technical issues.
• Defining performance standards for the middleware systems and continuously monitoring their performance to ensure they meet established benchmarks.
• Modify the existing software to correct errors, adapt it to new hardware, or upgrade interfaces and improve performance.
• Monitor functioning of equipment to ensure system operates in conformance with specifications.
• Store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• Version Control Systems: Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub.
• Containerization and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, RedHat OpenShift.
• Application Servers: IBM WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, Redhat JBoss EAP.
• Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Chef, Terraform, Puppet, Ansible.
• Cloud Computing Platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google cloud, Azure.
• Build and Dependency Management: Jenkins, Maven, and Gradle.
• Streaming Platform: Apache Kafka.
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Ansible.
• Operating Systems and Scripting: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Bash Shell script, Java Script and Python.

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 Us

With 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 Team

Serves 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.

Client-provided location(s): Jersey City, NJ, Coppell, TX

Job ID: DTCC-211739

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-11-11T19:47:46