DTCC

Associate Director Application Support Engineering

DTCC$120K — $150K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of technical and management experience
  • Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
  • Cloud certifications are a plus
  • Proven SRE or DevOps practices experience
  • Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Go, or similar
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms and containerized environments
  • Experience in financial services or regulated environments

Responsibilities

  • Participate in design reviews to highlight non-functional requirements (NFRs)
  • Collaborate with Major Release Management for SRE compliance in releases
  • Define monitoring and alerting strategies using AI/ML-driven analytics
  • Make design recommendations for automated outage detection and recovery
  • Drive automation tools to reduce manual toil and improve recovery consistency
  • Present operational readiness and assess risks at project management meetings
  • Lead capacity planning and performance analysis for scalable Risk platforms
  • Build an SRE culture enhanced by AI-driven insights through mentorship

Benefits

  • Opportunities for career advancement
  • Access to ongoing training and certifications
  • Collaborative team environment
  • Participation in industry-leading projects
  • Involvement in cutting-edge technology initiatives
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Impact you will have in this role:

The Development family is responsible for creating, designing, deploying, and supporting applications, programs, and software solutions. May include research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities related to software products used internally or externally on product platforms supported by the firm. The software development process requires in-depth subject matter expertise in existing and emerging development methodologies, tools, and programming languages. Software Developers work closely with business partners and / or external clients in defining requirements and implementing solutions. The Application Support Engineering role specializes in maintaining and providing technical support for all applications that are beyond the development stage and are running in the daily operations of the firm. Works closely with development teams, infrastructure partners, and internal / external clients to escalate and resolve technical support incidents.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

  • Participate in design reviews, sprint zero, and delivery planning to champion non-functional requirements (NFRs) including resiliency, observability, fault tolerance, Holiday and Special days processing, as well as disaster recovery.
  • Collaborate with Major Release Management to ensure each Risk release meets SRE standards for observability and resiliency (SLIs/SLOs, monitoring, knowledge base articles). Ensure releases are subject to required deployment validations.
  • Define and evolve monitoring, alerting, SLIs, and SLOs, leveraging AI/ML-driven analytics for anomaly detection, incident correlation, and early risk identification.
  • Make design recommendations that will quick detection of outage conditions and allow the application to recover without manual interventions and/or create a knowledge based guidance for application support team to follow for improved application recovery times. Participate in major incident response / Root Cause analysis to drive continual systemic recovery time improvements.
  • Drive automation and intelligent tooling (including AI-assisted remediation) to reduce manual toil and improve consistency and recovery times.
  • Attend and present operational readiness with application support (EAS L2) at project management meeting - raise any operational risks and concerns. Test NFRs in UAT environments to validate effectiveness and completeness of operational capabilities. Validate operational readiness prior to release with stakeholders, partner with Embedded Risk and Security teams, and proactively surface and mitigate technology and operational risks.
  • Lead capacity planning and performance analysis to ensure Risk platforms scale reliably under high load.
  • Establish KPIs and operational metrics to demonstrate reliability improvements and operational maturity.
  • Build a strong SRE culture-enhanced by AI-driven insights-across Risk Application Support and Development through mentorship and best-practice coaching; leverage approved AI tools to analyze code and collaborate on knowledge base articles, and to accelerate improvements in observability, performance, security, and maintainability.

    Qualifications:
  • Minimum of 8 years of related technical and management experience
  • Bachelor's degree preferred or eq

    uivalent experience
  • Cloud certifications is a plus


Talents Needed for Success:
  • Proven experience with SRE or DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automation frameworks
  • Strong understanding of monitoring and observability platforms (e.g., Grafana) and experience designing and fine-tuning robust monitoring systems
  • Programming proficiency in one or more languages such as Python, Java, Go, or similar, for automation and tooling development
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms, containerized environments, and/or hybrid infrastructure models
  • Experience in financial services, capital markets, or regulated environments
  • Demonstrated participation in disaster recovery, performance, and resiliency testing
  • Knowledge of AI concepts, data platforms, messaging systems, and large-scale batch or real-time processing systems
  • Strong collaboration skills across technology and business teams
  • Hands-on experience leading and participating in incident and problem management, including root cause analysis


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.

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About the Team

Serves as a dedicated technology resource for advancing DTCC's business opportunities and providing industry thought leadership for leveraging new technology. The goal of this new department is to partner internally with IT, our business and regulatory divisions and externally with clients, regulators, and fintech vendors, to help build new platforms and business models to advance DTCC's mission to support the financial markets.

About DTCC

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is a financial services company that provides clearing, settlement, and information services for the global financial industry. DTCC was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York City. The company operates through subsidiaries that provide services such as trade matching, risk management, and asset servicing. DTCC is owned by its users, which include broker-dealers, banks, and other financial institutions. The company is committed to reducing risk and increasing efficiency in the financial markets.
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