Lead Systems Engineer

Job Description

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities?

Join our DTCC family, and you'll grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you'll be supported and surrounded by other professionals as you learn new skills, advance your career, and see the impact of your efforts every day.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and other leave of absence
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (Onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day of your choosing)

Why you'll love this job:

The Systems Engineering role specializes in the analysis, evaluation, design, testing, implementation, support, and debugging of all middleware, mainframe, and distributed platforms, tools, and systems of the firm.

The Lead System Engineer is a valued member of The Distributed Middleware Services Team in the Configuration, Maintenance, And Support of various Middleware and MQ Technologies.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide support to the various middleware technologies managed by the team with primary focus on WebSphere Business Process Manager and WebSphere Application Server.
• Identify and implement efficiencies and improvements to standard processes and procedures such as automation through scripting, programming, etc.
• Support and Troubleshooting WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal, IBM BPM, IBM MQ Tomcat application servers.
• Support DMS PROD/PSE/QA/Dev BAU activities working with AD & Engineering teams.
• Provide production support in evenings and weekends, if necessary in case of MIM or Technical support issues.
• Implement planned changes after ROC or weekend as part of BAU activities.
• Support planned DTCC weekend Disaster Recovery exercise.
• Troubleshooting issues related to access management solutions like Ping Federate/Ping Access, IBM HIPAM, etc.
• Load Balancing, High Availability, and Disaster recovery plans and configurations.
• Support any new application deployed in all Dev, QA, PROD environments
• Lead Incident, problem and change management, as needed using (ITIL) processes and ITSM tools.
• Performance analysis, tuning, and optimization.
• Install/Update/coordinate patches for Security vulnerabilities and bug fixes for WAS/IHS/tomcat
• Mitigate risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

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

Talents Needed For Success:

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred

Additional Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in supporting real time production environments.
• Extensive debugging skills and troubleshooting experience.
• Experience with Middleware and MQ technologies like WebSphere, Tomcat, IBM MQ.

Who We Are:

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 crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

About Us

DTCC safeguards the financial markets and helps them run efficiently, in times of prosperity and crisis. We are uniquely positioned at the center of global trading activity, processing over 100 million financial transactions every day, pioneering industry-wide, post-trade solutions and maintaining multiple data and operating centers worldwide. From where we stand, we can anticipate the industry's needs and we're working to continually improve the world's most resilient, secure and efficient market infrastructure. Our employees are driven to deliver innovative technologies that improve efficiency, lower cost and bring stability and certainty to the post-trade lifecycle.

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you'll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It's the chance to make a difference at a company that's truly one of a kind.

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About the Team

IT Architecture and Enterprise Services are responsible for enabling digital transformation of DTCC. The group manages complexity of the technology landscape within DTCC and enhances agility, robustness and security of the technology footprint. It does so by serving as the focal point for all technology architectural activities in the organization as well as engineering a portfolio of foundational technology assets to enable our digital transformation.