Principal Infrastructure Architect

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:

Responsible for designing, creating, communicating and executing the Enterprise Private, Hybrid and Public Cloud Strategy for DTCC and its subsidiaries. This role will focus on developing Enterprise Cloud capabilities, both internal, hybrid and external, and all cloud service types; IaaS, PaaS, and Saas.  Collaborates with the Infrastructure,  Technology Risk Management and Application Development organizations during Cloud System design and development phases, providing advice, interpretation, and review of Enterprise Cloud  architecture and design principles. Focuses on overall project technical and architecture design, quality of solution, knowledge transfer to other areas, and mentoring the project technical team members. Conducts research and understands cloud computing industry trends with regards to technology and adoption, and can understand and evaluate the use of automated tools and utilities and how they relate in support of DTCC's overall Enterprise Architecture.

Principle Responsibilities:

Firm/Enterprise Architecture Related

• Enables DTCC to implement the most optimal and effective, business solutions 
• Maintains understanding of existing DTCC applications and technology solutions for leveraging the reuse of services and for the consolidation of services.
• Identifies and researches opportunities for converging diverse DTCC solutions to a single architecture.
• Develops and documents architecture solutions, including designs, guidelines and architecture-specific standards for enterprise-wide implementation.
• Leads and enables collaboration across technology specialties – ensures that ADM, Infrastructure, Information Security and Architecture are all working together 
• Obtains concurrence and agreement on architecture solutions from, as applicable: Applications Development, Infrastructure, CISO, Internal Audit, and Product Management. 
• Supports adherence to relevant ADM/CMMI, ITIL, internal audit, and risk-management standards. Architects the group's security policies to ensure compliance with relevant departmental, company-wide, and industry-mandated policies and directives.
• Maintains understanding of emerging architecture concepts and methods and associated technology trends.
• Conducts presentations and education on Architecture's concepts and solutions to appropriate areas of DTCC.
• Participates in the design, specification, and implementation of business and technology projects, assuring and resolving adherence to enterprise-wide solutions.
• Provides guidance and leadership for DTCC's technology standardization process
• Works across IT to identify opportunities for reusing technology

Technology Related

• Define standards and policies for the security, compliance and governance of data and information stored or processed at an external Cloud provider, including IaaS (Infrastructure), PaaS (Application Platform) and SaaS (Software) models 
• Establish an Enterprise Cloud strategy, standards and best practices associated with all aspects Cloud offerings.  This includes, but is not limited to:
• Secure and compliant data and messaging egress and ingress 
• Federated authentication and authorization models 
• Automated workload lifecycle management
• Data and information at rest encryption and security 
• Application porting, integration and maintenance
• On-demand, self-service access to Enterprise Cloud applications, platforms and offerings
• Overall cloud management tools, monitoring, alerting, chargeback, capacity and performance management, and service level objective definitions.

Experience (Mandatory):

• Minimum of 7 years' experience in IT platform, storage, and network virtualization architecture and engineering, including:
• In depth knowledge of private, hybrid and public cloud offerings and vendors
• In depth experience with Cloud methodologies (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), automation, orchestration, cost frameworks, trends and industry-leading private/public/hybrid cloud vendor offerings and interoperability
• Experience with Amazon Services such as Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing, Transit Gateway, CloudWAN, AWS Firewall, Aurora PostgreSQL, Kinesis, etc.
• Experience architecting automated data center processes, including provisioning, application and patch management, monitoring and alerting, capacity monitoring and planning, leveraging execution and human approval workflow design and implementation 
• Experience with Business Continuity and Disaster Recover design, planning and implementation for virtualized infrastructures
• Experience in Linux System Administration
• Experience scripting with bash, Terraform Enterprise Python and/or similar
• Experience in containerization platforms like OpenShift, ROSA or EKS
• Experience with Continuous Development/Deployment/Integration design and best practices
• Experience managing and working with configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible)
• Experience in Agile development practices (Kanban or Scrum)
• Ability to see opportunities for improvement, take ownership and work closely with others to drive operational improvement
• Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to correlate system behaviors based on known interdependencies between those systems
• Ability to handle ambiguity, embracing change and helping others see it as an opportunity and able to stay focused on goals while adapting to change

Experience (Preferred):

• Experience with MS Windows (server and desktop), Solaris, Linux (RHEL & SLES), AIX Operating platforms
• Experience with Web technologies including web services architectures and security 
• Experience with RDBMS technologies including Oracle RAC, PostgreSQL, MS-SQL, DB2 
• Experience with 10G & 40G network technologies and I/O Virtualization
• Experience overhauling legacy applications to work with modern technologies
• Experienced with Atlassian as an Agile development management tool (JIRA)
• Experience with various application architectures

Knowledge/Skills:

• Maintains current knowledge of marketplace changes, technology changes, and client businesses pertinent to cloud, server, storage and network virtualization 
• Possesses a comprehensive knowledge of the Process Architecture
• Possesses a detailed understanding of Domain/Area/Team applications and their development throughout all phases of the lifecycle
• Possesses in-depth knowledge of the business units that the Domain supports
• Exemplifies leadership characteristics in support of DTCC corporate objectives
• Demonstrates proficiencies in business case development, program management, issue resolution, and communication
• Excellent analytical problem solving skills with a methodical approach to problem resolution across large scale distributed platforms
• Strong knowledge of multi-tiered application environments, including their design, implementation and capacity/scaling challenges
• Strong knowledge related to public/private/hybrid cloud solutions and market trends, PaaS, SaaS, storage and network optimization

Education, Training or Certification:

• Experience with Amazon's EC2, VPC, and S3, Microsoft's Azure, OpenStack and either the JBoss SOA stack 
• In depth knowledge of Cloud Management tools and methodologies
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect preferred, with extensive hands on experience as a Cloud Architect in an enterprise environment
• Advanced degree in a technical discipline preferred

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.

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