Director of Software Engineering - DTCC

Director of Software Engineering

Job Description:

Being a member of the Information Technology Business Unit the Director of Software Engineering is responsible for the overall management of the team and specific business applications across multiple global DTCC locations. Provides leadership and handles all aspects of team management, including the development of team members. Reviews, approves and maintains overall responsibility for the technical design of large business systems; integration of business services & information security; implements technology-specific best practices & standards; controls success criteria from design through deployment, including, reliability, cost-effectiveness, performance, data integrity, maintainability, reuse, extensibility, usability and scalability; engages the services of the Domain Architect as a technology liaison across teams and areas within the department. Responsible for the overall governance and process adherence for the team. Provides leadership for all projects and initiatives involving the team. Reviews and approves all estimates and project plans. Supports adherence to existing process best practices & standards; engages the services of the Domain Process Lead as a liaison across teams and areas within the department. The Director has a solid understanding of technology as well as process management, including managing budgets, metrics, personnel, and team morale, as a leader.

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring Team progress towards metric targets
• Monitoring Team service performance based on service level agreements (SLA)
• Actively participating in Continuous Improvement-related initiatives to minimize unfavorable variances
• Overseeing Team system management (i.e., production support, production coverage schedules)
• Identifying actions to improve services as necessary
• Managing the expectations of customers
• Supporting existing programs and initiatives to continually develop new skills and capabilities
• Enabling an environment of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and teamwork
• Develop and execute a target state talent strategy for staff development
• Construct and nurture high performing Agile squads leveraging strengths and enriching the "Way of Working"

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 12 years' experience in IT (6+ years of management experience)
• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline preferred
• Experience managing staff with capabilities in Java, Angular, API, back-end, real-time processing, framework development.

Talents needed for success:

• Reinforcing adherence to processes
• Performing root cause analyses for technical problems
• Engaging in work product quality review
• Identifying potential scope variances by monitoring work requirements definition, issue resolution, development progress and user sign-off
• Reviewing change requests and developing an impact analysis for the Change Request
• Refining work estimates and resource allocations to address approved change requests
• Providing scope management/change control trigger
• Working with customers (e.g., Product Management) to agree upon requirements and the design of the solution being implemented
• Working with customers (e.g., Product Management) to clearly develop the solution definition, and the ensure that the developed solution meets business requirements
• Driving functional and technical analysis and design activities
• Managing development of the solution
• Driving planning and execution of the testing activities
• Manages the deployment of the solution
• Manages teamwork to the budget
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

Leadership Competencies for this level include:

• Strategic Thinking
• Organizational Savvy
• Leading Change
• Financial Acumen
• Coaching
• Inclusive Leadership

About DTCC:

DTCC safeguards the financial markets and helps them run efficiently, in times of prosperity and crisis. We are uniquely positioned at the center of global trading activity, processing over 100 million financial transactions every day, pioneering industry-wide, post-trade solutions and maintaining multiple data and operating centers worldwide. From where we stand, we can anticipate the industry's needs and we're working to continually improve the world's most resilient, secure, and efficient market infrastructure. Our employees are driven to deliver innovative technologies that improve efficiency, lower cost, and bring stability and certainty to the post-trade lifecycle.