Lead Software Engineer

Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in Greater London seeks a technology expert for application development. Responsibilities include technical design, collaboration with QA, and providing expertise in data security and application performance. The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of experience in Oracle RDBMS, SQL development, and a bachelor's degree. This role supports a hybrid work model, allowing for both onsite and remote work.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive health and life insurance

Paid Time Off

Flexible/hybrid work model

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience with Oracle RDBMS and SQL.
• Experience deploying and configuring Tomcat application servers.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the technical design and development of applications.
• Provide technical expertise for application components.
• Collaborate with QA and Product partners.

Skills

Oracle RDBMS

SQL Query development

Stored Procedure development

Agile development

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Self-motivated

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Eclipse

Git/BitBucket

Maven

Jenkins

HiPAM tools

Job description

• Locations London Broadgate Quarter, London, EC2A 2DQ, GB
• Job Schedule Full time
• Salary Range Salary will be Commensurate with Experience
• FLSA Status Exempt

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
• Pension
• 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:

Assists in the technical design of application components, builds applications, interfaces between applications, and understands data security, retention, and recovery. Can research technologies independently and recommend appropriate solutions. Contributes to technology‑specific best practices & standards; contributes to success criteria from design through deployment, including reliability, cost‑effectiveness, performance, data integrity, maintainability, reuse, extensibility, usability and scalability; contributes expertise on significant application components, vendor products, program languages, databases, operating systems, etc., executes on the plan by building components, testing, configuring, tuning, and deploying solutions.

Provides technical and domain expertise for the Distributed Common Data Transport Service (dCDTS) platform. Assists with system backend technical implementation for functionality, interconnectivity and coordination with other DTCC business applications, resiliency and reliability and performance. Provides full‑life‑cycle support (development‑to‑production) for developed components. Works with QA and Product partners to ensure quality of delivery against specified requirements.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Technology Expertise – is a domain expert on one or more of programming languages, vendor products, DTCC applications, data structures, business lines
• Platforms – works with Infrastructure partners to stand up development, testing, and production environments
• Requirements Elaboration – works with the Functional Architect to ensure designs satisfy functional requirements
• Data Modeling – reviews and extends data models
• Is aware of frameworks – that promote concepts of isolation, extensibility, and extendibility
• System Performance – contributes to solutions that satisfy performance requirements; constructs test cases and strategies that account for performance requirements; tunes application performance issues
• Security – implements solutions and complete test plans working mentoring other team members in standard methodology
• Standards – is aware of technology standards and understands technical solutions need to be consistent with them
• Documentation – develops and maintains system documentation
• Is familiar with different software development methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Kanban)
• Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; brings up appropriately.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• 3+ years’ experience with Oracle RDBMS, SQL Query development, Stored Procedure development
• Experience with Eclipse, Git/BitBucket, Maven, Jenkins, HiPAM tools
• Experience deploying to and configuring Tomcat application servers
• Experience with Agile development, including Scrum and Kanban, use of JIRA
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Self‑motivated, able to work independently or in a team environment
• Experience with IBM’s Application Connect Enterprise (ACE, formerly IIB) is a plus

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. For more information, visit www.dtcc.com.

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.

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.