Senior Principal Infrastructure Architect (Backstage Platform)

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

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.
• 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 Ent Arch Data & Corp Tech team, the Senior Backstage Engineering leader will design and build an enterprise-grade Developer Portal and blueprint orchestration platform using Backstage. This role will be central to enabling self-service infrastructure provisioning, standardization, and platform engineering maturity across the organization.

The individual will help establish reusable platform capabilities that improve developer experience, accelerate environment provisioning, and enable API-first orchestration across cloud, infrastructure, CI/CD, identity, and security services.

Your Primary 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 including Jenkins, Terraform, Vault, ArgoCD, GitHub/GitOps, and related enterprise platforms.
• Define and manage software catalog structures, ownership models, taxonomy, and metadata standards.
• Enable self-service environment provisioning and developer experience improvements for application and platform teams.
• Implement RBAC, authentication, authorization, and enterprise identity integrations such as OAuth and SSO.
• Drive API-first orchestration across platform services and reusable enterprise capabilities.
• Collaborate with platform, cloud, infrastructure, application, and security teams to align on standards, integration patterns, and delivery priorities.
• Establish best practices for platform engineering, internal developer portals, blueprint lifecycle management, and developer experience.

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

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10+ years of relevant experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred and/or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated ability to deliver production-ready platform capabilities in partnership with architecture, engineering, security, and operations teams.
• Hands-on background across developer tooling, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, identity integration, API automation, and cloud-native platforms.

Talents Needed for Success

• Min 7+ years of software engineering, platform engineering, or related technology delivery experience.
• Strong expertise in Backstage platform development and internal developer portal implementation.
• Proven experience building custom Backstage plugins, templates, scaffolder actions, and scaffolder workflows.
• Strong hands-on experience with Node.js, TypeScript, and React.
• Experience integrating Backstage with enterprise tooling such as Jenkins, Terraform, TechRadar, GitHub or Bitbucket, Vault, ArgoCD, and GitOps workflows.
• Strong understanding of developer self-service platforms, internal developer portals, and platform engineering practices.
• Experience with API-driven orchestration, workflow automation, and reusable infrastructure or application blueprints.
• Experience implementing RBAC and enterprise authentication patterns including OAuth, SSO, and related identity integrations.
• Solid understanding of software catalog models, service metadata, ownership, lifecycle, and blueprint concepts.

Preferred

• Experience integrating Backstage with Kubernetes or OpenShift in an AWS environment.
• Familiarity with platform engineering operating models, golden paths, paved roads, and developer experience metrics.
• Experience operating in large-scale enterprise environments with complex governance, security, and integration requirements.
• Financial services experience is preferred but not required.

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.