Software Engineering Executive Director

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC); Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and life insurance

Pension / Retirement benefits

Paid Time Off and family care

Hybrid work model (3 onsite, 2 remote)

Job summary

DTCC is seeking an Executive Director of Software Engineering to lead strategy, delivery, modernization, and cloud adoption for its Fixed Income platforms. You will oversee globally distributed teams driving mission-critical production services, modernization efforts, and cloud migration across FICC technology.

You will partner with product, architecture, infrastructure, and cybersecurity leaders to establish architecture standards, improve resiliency, and achieve measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of technology leadership experience.
• Experience operating mission-critical platforms in highly regulated or high-availability environments.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale modernization and cloud transformation initiatives.
• Deep knowledge of enterprise architecture, software engineering, systems integration, resilience, performance, and secure development practices.
• Experience managing complex portfolios, budgets, vendors, and global teams.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence senior business and technology stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the FICC cloud migration strategy, integrated roadmap, delivery plan, and measurable outcomes across the application portfolio.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Operations, and Business leaders to deliver strategic outcomes.
• Drive engineering standards, scalability, performance, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Oversee budgets, workforce planning, vendor management, technology risk, and executive reporting.
• Build leadership capability, succession depth, and accountability across global engineering teams.

Skills

Technology leadership

Executive presence

Cloud migration

Vendor management

Security best practices

Enterprise architecture

Stakeholder management

Strategic planning

Tools

AWS

Java

Containers

Oracle databases

CI/CD

Observability

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

The Executive Director, Software Engineering will lead the strategy, delivery, modernization, and operational performance of technology platforms supporting DTCC's Fixed Income business. This leader will oversee globally distributed engineering teams responsible for strategic modernization and public cloud migration of the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) technology platforms and services.

The role combines accountability for mission-critical production services with a transformational agenda focused on cloud adoption, platform modernization, resilience, security, and engineering excellence.

What You Will Lead

FICC Cloud Migration

• End-to-end migration planning and execution across FICC applications, including real-time engines, batch processes, web platforms, data stores, messaging, reporting, and shared services.
• Application-level roadmaps, migration waves, dependency management, environment readiness, testing, production parallel, cutover, stabilization, and legacy platform retirement.
• Formal synchronization with the parallel functional delivery track at strategic milestones to reconcile code, configuration, data, interfaces, and release dependencies before cloud go-live.

Target-State & Platform Alignment

• Ensure migration designs and implementation decisions align with the enterprise target-state vision, approved architecture patterns, platform engineering standards, and non-functional requirements for performance, resiliency, security, and observability.
• Drive the adoption of cloud-native and service-based architectures that support scalability, operational readiness, and long-term sustainability.
• Reduce technology risk through vulnerability remediation, modernization, and the retirement of legacy platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute the FICC cloud migration strategy, integrated roadmap, delivery plan, and measurable outcomes across the application portfolio.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Operations, and Business leaders to deliver strategic outcomes.
• Drive engineering standards, scalability, performance, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Oversee budgets, workforce planning, vendor management, technology risk, and executive reporting.
• Build leadership capability, succession depth, and accountability across global engineering teams.
• NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above.

Success Measures

• Stable, secure, and resilient platforms supporting business growth and client demands.
• Reduced technology risk through modernization and retirement of legacy platforms.
• Increased adoption of reusable shared services across Fixed Income Clearing Corporation.
• Improved engineering efficiency, operational readiness, monitoring, and recovery capabilities.
• Strong global leadership team with clear accountability and succession plans.

Qualifications & Experience

• 15+ years of technology leadership experience, including executive responsibility for large-scale software engineering organizations.
• Proven experience operating mission-critical platforms in highly regulated or high-availability environments.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale modernization and cloud transformation initiatives.
• Deep knowledge of enterprise architecture, software engineering, systems integration, resilience, performance, and secure development practices.
• Experience managing complex portfolios, budgets, vendors, and global teams.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence senior business and technology stakeholders.

Preferred Experience

• Financial market infrastructure, clearing, settlement, post-trade processing, or another highly regulated and operationally critical industry.
• Leadership experience with AWS migrations involving Java applications, container platforms, Oracle databases, messaging, APIs, batch processing, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with wave-based migration, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, production parallel, cutover planning, configuration and code-baseline synchronization, and legacy decommissioning.

Leadership Profile

The successful candidate is a strategic and pragmatic technology leader who prioritizes client outcomes, service stability, and long-term platform sustainability. They build strong partnerships, simplify complexity, establish accountability, and develop high-performing engineering organizations capable of driving both operational excellence and transformational change.

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.