Senior Enterprise Storage Architect - Hybrid Cloud & IaC

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC); Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Health insurance

Life insurance

Pension plan

Paid time off

Hybrid work model

Job summary

DTCC is seeking an Enterprise Storage Architect/Engineer to lead the standardization and evolution of storage architectures across on-prem and cloud environments. You will drive design authority, scalability, and automation, shaping the future of storage at the organization.

You will mentor teams, collaborate with cross-functional partners, and contribute to strategy and modernization roadmaps while delivering reliable, observable, and secure storage solutions.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of related enterprise storage experience.
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.
• Strong expertise in block, file, and object storage across on-premises and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve enterprise storage standards, design guidelines, and SDS reference architectures.
• Design scalable block, file, and object storage solutions for enterprise workloads across hybrid environments.
• Serve as a design authority in SDS architecture and design reviews, ensuring consistency and long-term sustainability.
• Drive automation-by-default and IaC-first delivery of storage provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Define standard observability patterns for storage platforms including metrics, logging, alerting, dashboards, and runbooks.
• Architect data protection, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions aligned with resiliency objectives.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools for anomaly detection, root cause analysis, capacity forecasting, and operational efficiency.
• Partner with compute, networking, security, OS, and container platform teams to ensure integrated enterprise solutions.
• Produce high-quality documentation including standards, reference architectures, and operational guidance.
• Provide L3/L4 engineering support for complex production issues, focusing on permanent remediation.
• Act as a recognized subject-matter expert for enterprise storage within SDS and partners.
• Contribute to enterprise storage strategy, modernization roadmaps, and long-term platform evolution.
• Research emerging storage technologies and best practices, assessing applicability to the enterprise.
• Represent SDS in architecture forums, governance bodies, vendor briefings, and technical communities of practice.
• Author and socialize whitepapers, recommendations, and design position statements to guide decision-making.
• Mentor engineers and architects, raising storage, automation, and observability maturity across teams.

Skills

Storage architecture

Automation / IaC

Cloud storage

Block/File/Object storage

Observability

Executive communication

Publications / thought leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

DTCC is seeking an Enterprise Storage Architect/Engineer to lead the standardization and evolution of storage architectures across on-prem and cloud environments. You will drive design authority, scalability, and automation, shaping the future of storage at the organization.

You will mentor teams, collaborate with cross-functional partners, and contribute to strategy and modernization roadmaps while delivering reliable, observable, and secure storage solutions.