Lead Systems Engineer

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.

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.

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:

• Provide support for various middleware technologies managed by the team, with a primary focus on Tomcat, WebSphere Business Process Manager, WebSphere Application Server, IBM MQ, Liberty, and Kafka.
• Responsible for identifying and implementing efficiencies and improvements to standard processes and procedures, including automation through scripting or programming.
• Able to work both independently and as part of a team, with minimal supervision.
• Mitigate risk by following established procedures, monitoring controls, identifying key errors, and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.
• Lead or contribute to automation and scripting initiatives using tools such as Ansible, PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar orchestration tools to enhance operational efficiency and reduce manual work.
• Serve as a key responder for critical and major production incidents, handling end-to-end restoration, root cause analysis, remediation, and post-incident reviews.
• Ensure production environments are available, perform well, are resilient, and recoverable through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning.
• Support new applications deployed across Dev, QA, PSE, and PROD environments.
• Utilize monitoring and third-party tools to maintain system health and uptime.
• Install, update, and coordinate patches for security vulnerabilities and bug fixes for WAS, IHS, Tomcat, MQ, and Kafka.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in Engineering or Masters in Computer Science is required.
• 06+ years experience in application development and system analysis.

Talents Needed for Success:

• 6+years experienceinsupporting real time production environments.
• Extensivedebugging skills and troubleshootingexperience.
• Experience with Middlewaretechnologies likeIBMMQ,WebSphere, Tomcat,Liberty & Kafka.
• ITIL processes, including Incident, Problem, Change, and Release Management, with demonstrated operational discipline.
• Leadership in driving and resolving Critical and Major production incidents, coordinating across infrastructure, application, and security teams.
• General knowledge of industry principles and familiarity with modern technologies like Amazon cloud, Unix/Linux, virtualization,etc.is good to have but not arequirement.
• Familiarwith monitoring and ticketing tools SNOW,SPLUNKetc.
• Certifications in anyone ofmiddlewareareas will be a plus.