Senior Platform Architect – Backstage & DevPortal

Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health and life insurance

Pension / Retirement benefits

Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care

Flexible/hybrid model (3 days onsite,

Job summary

DTCC is seeking a Senior Backstage Engineer Leader to design and build an enterprise-grade Developer Portal using Backstage. You will drive self-service provisioning and platform maturity across the organization.

You will lead plugin development, templates, and orchestration layers, integrating CI/CD, cloud, identity, and security tooling while aligning with architecture and security standards.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor's degree preferred and/or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver production-ready platform capabilities with cross-functional teams.
• Hands-on background across developer tooling, CI/CD, IaC, identity integration, API automation, and cloud-native platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the enterprise Developer Portal using Backstage.
• Build and maintain Backstage plugins, scaffolder templates, and workflow automation.
• Develop an executable blueprint orchestration layer integrated with enterprise systems.
• Integrate Backstage with CI/CD, infrastructure, and security tooling (Jenkins, Terraform, Vault, ArgoCD, GitHub/GitOps).
• Define and manage software catalog structures, ownership models, taxonomy, and metadata standards.
• Enable self-service environment provisioning and developer experience improvements.
• Implement RBAC, authentication, authorization, and enterprise identity integrations (OAuth, SSO).
• Drive API-first orchestration across platform services and reusable enterprise capabilities.
• Collaborate with platform, cloud, infrastructure, application, and security teams on standards and delivery.

Skills

Backstage development

Internal developer portal

Node.js

TypeScript

React

Jenkins

Terraform

Vault

ArgoCD

GitHub/GitOps

RBAC/OAuth/SSO

API orchestration

Platform engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

Backstage

Jenkins

Terraform

Vault

ArgoCD

GitHub

GitOps

Job description

DTCC is seeking a Senior Backstage Engineer Leader to design and build an enterprise-grade Developer Portal using Backstage. You will drive self-service provisioning and platform maturity across the organization.

You will lead plugin development, templates, and orchestration layers, integrating CI/CD, cloud, identity, and security tooling while aligning with architecture and security standards.