Associate Director Software Engineering

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 developmentAt DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. Were 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.

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 the IT Solutions ITP Team means you will be part of diverse and collaborative group of technologists. DTCC ITP is the operations expert, automating post-trade life cycle events between 6,000 financial services firms in 52 countries. We enable clients to accelerate the clearing and settlement of trades, seamlessly connect and interoperate with their counterparties, and respond to changing market and regulatory conditions ensuring quality, efficiency, and excellence using innovative technologies.

You will collaborate with your peers within and outside your area to ensure that any best practices/approaches/standards are reused. You would be part of an Agile squad and will collaborate with the Product Owner (PO) to understand the business needs and participate in planning, definition, and high-level technical design with the development team.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Participate in daily code deploys while working on individual or team projects
• Translate business requirements into software designs and implementations
• Participate in thorough code reviews with a goal of illustrating quality engineering practices and to produce the highest quality code possible
• Build high quality and scalable / performant applications
• Design frameworks that promote concepts of isolation, extensibility and reusability
• Contribute towards supporting the application platform and resolving issues on time.
• Coach junior members in the team and develop them over time to enhance their skills and knowledge

**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

Qualifications:

• Minimum 7 years of related experience
• Bachelors degree (preferred) or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• 8-10 years of solid software development experience
• Expert knowledge in Java/ JEE and coding best practices.
  Expert knowledge in development concepts. Good design and coding skills in Web Services, Spring,
• 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
• 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.
• Capable to leverage DevOps techniques and practices like Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Test Automation, Build Automation and Test Driven Development to enable the rapid delivery of working code utilizing tools like Jenkins, Cloudbees, Git, etc.
• Has experience working in Agile Scrum and is a strong team player.
  

Additional Qualifications:

• Strong ability to gather and analyze requirements and translate them into technical specification.
• Writing and executing the unit test scenarios / cases to ensure the code quality and reliability.
• Deep understanding of all lifecycle components (code, test, deploy)
• Ability to present designs to peers and Product Owner for approval.
• Troubleshooting and debugging code to resolve technical issues.
• Optimizing application performance to ensure efficient use of software resources.
• Good verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills

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