Senior Principal Solutions Architect

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:

The Director of Resiliency Architecture provides strategic leadership for enterprise-wide resiliency initiatives, ensuring technology platforms and applications meet stringent availability, disaster recovery, and operational continuity standards. This role influences architectural direction, drives adoption of resiliency patterns, and partners with senior stakeholders to embed resilience into modernization and cloud strategies.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Define and champion the enterprise resiliency vision, aligning with business continuity and regulatory requirements.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year resiliency roadmap integrated with cloud adoption and modernization programs.
• Establish resiliency standards, patterns, and frameworks for hybrid and cloud-native environments.
• Oversee architecture reviews to ensure compliance with resiliency principles and operational readiness.
• Lead enterprise-wide resiliency assessments, failure mode analysis, and chaos engineering exercises.
• Drive continuous improvement through lessons learned from incidents and gameday simulations.
• Partner with technology leaders, risk management, and business units to prioritize resiliency investments.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on resiliency posture and emerging risks.
• Mentor and develop a high-performing team of resiliency engineers and architects.
• Foster a culture of reliability and operational excellence across IT and business functions.
• Proven track record in resiliency strategy, disaster recovery, and high-availability architecture.

Qualifications:

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

Talents Needed for Success:

• Strategic thinking with ability to translate business objectives into technical solutions.
• Deep knowledge of resiliency patterns, observability, and automated recovery pipelines.
• Expertise in designing public cloud and hybrid infrastructure solutions
• Strong understanding of financial services regulatory requirements for operational resilience.
• Proficiency in Java, Linux, SQL, and scripting for proof-of-concept development.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (ISO 22301, NIST SP 800-34) and risk management practices.

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

IT Architecture and Enterprise Services are responsible for enabling digital transformation of DTCC. The group manages complexity of the technology landscape within DTCC and enhances agility, robustness and security of the technology footprint. It does so by serving as the focal point for all technology architectural activities in the organization as well as engineering a portfolio of foundational technology assets to enable our digital transformation.

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

Job ID: DTCC-212372

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-12-25T19:40:57