Job DescriptionThe Impact you will have in this role:Being a member of IT Enterprise Product & Platform Engineering team, the Head of Infrastructure Development and Modernization is responsible for defining and executing the strategy to modernize enterprise infrastructure across on-premises and public cloud environments. This role drives large-scale transformation initiatives to improve platform resilience, scalability, security, and cost efficiency while enabling faster delivery of business and technology outcomes.
Your Primary Responsibilities:- Own the enterprise infrastructure modernization strategy, including containers, operating systems, storage and virtualization
- Define the enterprise software development standards and transformation framework, driving consistency, modernization, and adoption of modern engineering practices across platforms and teams.
- Own the enterprise observability strategy, including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting to improve system reliability, performance, and operational insight.
- Lead the design, build, and modernization of infrastructure services to support mission-critical financial market systems.
- Drive adoption of cloud-native architectures, automation, Infrastructure-as-Code, AI and DevOps/SRE practices.
- Manage and mentor architecture and engineering teams fostering growth, knowledge sharing and collaboration.
- Establish and track operational KPIs related to availability, performance, cost optimization, and service reliability.
- Lead and mentor infrastructure engineering and platform teams, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
- Ensure infrastructure platforms meet regulatory, risk, and audit requirements applicable to financial markets environments.
**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **Qualifications:- Minimum of 10+ years of related experience
- Bachelor's degree preferred and/or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with track record in technical leadership and managerial roles.
- Experience with public cloud resiliency, testing, AI and automation pattern development, including python, ansible, terraform & chef.
- Deep understanding of hybrid and cloud infrastructure, including compute, storage, networking, and container platforms.
- Proven ability to lead large, complex transformation programs across multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Experience operating in high-availability, regulated, or mission-critical environments.
- Strong executive communication skills with the ability to translate technical strategy into business outcomes.
Talents Needed for Success:- Experience supporting financial services or financial markets technology environments.
- Hands-on familiarity with container orchestration platforms, automation frameworks, and CI/CD enablement.
- Experience implementing SRE, reliability engineering, or platform operating models.
- Track record of driving cost transparency and optimization in infrastructure platforms.
Leadership Competencies: - Strategic thinker with strong execution discipline
- Influential leader who builds alignment across technology and business teams
- Data-driven decision maker with a focus on risk and resilience
- Champion of modernization, automation, and simplification
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.
About the TeamEnterprise Product & Platform Engineering transforms the way we deliver infrastructure to our business clients. A key construct of EP&PE will be the evolution of the IT Product Manager, who will partner with the Engineering organization, the Business Aligned Service Delivery organization, the DevSecOps organization as well as our operational support teams to ensure that this organization provides high quality, commercially attractive and timely solutions to support our business strategy.
