Executive Director Head of Cloud Architecture

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 the Infrastructure Architecture team, the Executive Director will report directly to the Head of Architecture as a senior member of the company-wide Architecture organization covering multiple key architecture subject areas including applications, platforms, data, and resiliency. This role is responsible for defining enterprise-level cloud application architecture standards, procedures, and strategic direction, ensuring alignment with both business objectives and regulatory obligations. The successful candidate will lead a matrixed architecture team and work in close partnership with architecture peers, platform engineering, operations, and application development teams across multiple business units to build, develop, and deliver modernized, cloud-based solutions that are highly scalable, resilient, and secure.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Define, maintain, and govern enterprise cloud architecture standards, reference architectures, and procedures.
• Lead communications with all levels of the organization to advance architecture awareness and outcomes, maintain engagement with all sponsors and collaborators, and represent leadership role of architecture.
• Partner with application development teams to compose and implement modernized, cloud-native applications that meet high availability, security, and performance requirements.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide authoritative guidance on cloud design patterns, integration strategies, and migration roadmaps.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, and operations teams to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry-leading security standards.
• Drive adoption of DevSecOps methodologies and tooling to improve development efficiency, quality, and speed to market.
• Provide thought leadership on emerging cloud technologies, trends, and practices, assessing their potential applicability to the enterprise.
• Present architecture strategies, roadmaps, and decisions to senior technology leadership and executive partners.  

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

Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Advanced cloud certification preferred (AWS and Azure desirable) with substantial hands-on experience architecting and delivering cloud landing zones and large-scale cloud application deliveries and migrations of critically important multi-region platforms.
• Experience applying new and non-traditional technologies (AI/ML, blockchain, ledger and graph databases) to solve hard problems.
• Proven track record delivering highly scalable, resilient, and critical financial services applications.
• Broad technical knowledge across multiple technology domains, including programming languages, networks, platforms, and on-premises architectures. Mainframe knowledge is a plus but not required.
• Over 20 years of combined, relevant proven experience in technology architecture, application delivery, and large-scale transformation initiatives.

Talents Needed For Success:

• Hands-on experience delivering mission critical applications.
• Hands-on experience with DevSecOps tooling and automation practices, including Jira, Jenkins, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Outstanding technical communication skills, including the ability to produce high-quality architecture documentation, diagrams (Visio, draw.io), and executive presentations (PowerPoint).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; adept at influencing and engaging executives, senior technology leaders, and engineering teams.
• Strategic problem solver with the ability to balance long-term vision with pragmatic, incremental delivery.
• Demonstrated experience building and leading highly technical teams.  

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.

With over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes, bringing enhanced resilience and soundness to existing financial markets while advancing the digital asset ecosystem. In 2024, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $3.7 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $99 trillion. DTCC’s Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 25 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at www.dtcc.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.

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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