Principal File Transfer Engineer

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC); Tampa (FL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation & incentive

Comprehensive health & life insurance

Paid Time Off & family care

Flexible/hybrid on-site schedule

Job summary

DTCC is seeking a senior File Transfer Engineer to design, operate, and optimize secure file transfer platforms within a hybrid IT environment. You will work with IBM Connect:Direct, IBM DataPower, and AWS Transfer Family to move data securely between internal systems and external clients, ensuring high availability and compliance.

You will collaborate with application, security, and infrastructure teams to automate onboarding, monitoring, and disaster recovery while driving modernization

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience.
• Bachelor's degree preferred and/or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Implement, operate, and support managed file transfer platforms (NDM, DataPower, AWS Transfer Family).
• Monitor file transfer workflows for high availability and throughput; troubleshoot complex production issues.
• Support onboarding activities, secure connectivity patterns, and production readiness validation.
• Enforce secure file transfer standards including encryption, authentication, and key management.
• Execute platform lifecycle activities including upgrades, patching, and decommissioning end-of-life components.
• Develop and maintain automation for onboarding, configuration management, monitoring, and compliance reporting.

Skills

IBM Connect:Direct

IBM DataPower

AWS Transfer Family

SFTP/SSH security

Linux scripting

Automation tooling

Monitoring/logging

Education

Bachelor's degree (preferred)

Tools

Ansible

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

SIEM

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
• 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 IT Strategy & Business Management team, the Principal 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. This 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.

The File Transfer Engineer is responsible for the design, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of file transfer platforms that support secure, reliable, and high volume data movement between internal systems and external clients. The role is critical to ensuring platform resiliency, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence across managed file transfer services.

This position works closely with application teams, infrastructure partners, security, and external clients to enable secure integrations, support onboarding, and maintain production stability for mission-critical data exchanges.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

Platform Engineering & Operations

• Implement, operate, and support managed file transfer platforms, including IBM Connect:Direct (NDM), IBM DataPower (SFTP) and AWS Transfer Family (SFTP) for internal and external connectivity
• Monitor file transfer workflows to ensure high availability, throughput, and transaction success rates
• Troubleshoot complex production issues involving connectivity, authentication, encryption, performance, and protocol behavior
• Participate in on-call rotations and support incident response for Tier-0 / Tier-1 platforms.

Client & Application Support

• Support client and application onboarding activities by providing secure connectivity patterns, testing support, and production readiness validation
• Partner with internal application teams and external clients to diagnose issues, optimize configurations, and resolve integration challenges
• Maintain strong service reliability and operational SLAs for critical business workflows.

Security, Compliance & Audit

• Enforce secure file transfer standards including encryption in transit, strong authentication, key management, and least-privilege access
• Support audit and regulatory compliance efforts by maintaining enforceable controls, evidentiary artifacts, and documented operational procedures
• Collaborate with security and technology risk teams on reviews, remediation efforts, and control enhancements.

Lifecycle Management & Resiliency

• Execute platform lifecycle activities including upgrades, patching, decommissioning of end-of-life components, and adoption of supported releases
• Contribute to disaster recovery planning, failover testing, and resiliency improvements to meet defined RTO/RPO objectives
• Drive modernization initiatives focused on automation, cloud integration, and improved observability.

Automation & Operational Excellence

• Develop and maintain automation for onboarding, configuration management, monitoring, and compliance reporting
• Improve operational processes by reducing manual effort, improving MTTR, and increasing platform transparency
• Maintain and enhance technical documentation, runbooks, and standardized onboarding patterns.

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

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred and/or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

Technical Skills

• Strong experience with managed file transfer technologies such as:
• IBM Connect:Direct (NDM)
• IBM DataPower (SFTP gateways)
• AWS Transfer Family
• Deep understanding of SFTP, SSH, certificates, encryption, firewall/network flows, and secure connectivity models
• Experience supporting high-volume, mission-critical production platforms
• Familiarity with Linux platforms, scripting, and operational tooling for troubleshooting and automation

Professional Skills

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills for complex, multi-system issues
• Ability to collaborate effectively with application, infrastructure, security, and external client teams
• Experience working in regulated environments with strict audit, risk, and compliance requirements
• Clear communication skills and ability to document operational and technical processes
• Experience with cloud-integrated file transfer patterns
• Exposure to automation tools (e.g., Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code concepts)
• Familiarity with enterprise monitoring, logging, or SIEM integrations
• Experience supporting disaster recovery and resiliency testing initiatives

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.