DTCC

Senior Principal Infrastructure Architect (Backstage Platform)

DTCC$150K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum 10+ years of relevant experience in IT and engineering
  • Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
  • Proven track record in delivering production-ready platform capabilities
  • Hands-on experience with developer tooling, CI/CD, and identity integration
  • Strong expertise in Backstage development and implementation

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement the enterprise Developer Portal using Backstage
  • Build and maintain plugins, templates, and workflow automation
  • Develop an orchestration layer integrated with enterprise systems
  • Integrate Backstage with CI/CD and security tooling
  • Enable self-service provisioning and improve developer experience
  • Drive API-first orchestration across various platform services
  • Collaborate on standards, integration patterns, and delivery priorities

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on innovative platform engineering projects
  • Collaborative team environment focused on developer experience
  • Access to cutting-edge technologies and practices
  • Potential for enhancing leadership skills in a key engineering role
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Impact you will have in this role:

Being a member of IT Ent Arch Data & Corp Tech team, the Senior Backstage Engineering leader will design and build an enterprise-grade Developer Portal and blueprint orchestration platform using Backstage. This role will be central to enabling self-service infrastructure provisioning, standardization, and platform engineering maturity across the organization.

The individual will help establish reusable platform capabilities that improve developer experience, accelerate environment provisioning, and enable API-first orchestration across cloud, infrastructure, CI/CD, identity, and security services.

Your Primary Responsibilities:
  • Design and implement the enterprise Developer Portal using Backstage.
  • Build and maintain Backstage plugins, scaffolder templates, and workflow automation.
  • Develop an executable blueprint orchestration layer integrated with enterprise systems.
  • Integrate Backstage with CI/CD, infrastructure, and security tooling including Jenkins, Terraform, Vault, ArgoCD, GitHub/GitOps, and related enterprise platforms.
  • Define and manage software catalog structures, ownership models, taxonomy, and metadata standards.
  • Enable self-service environment provisioning and developer experience improvements for application and platform teams.
  • Implement RBAC, authentication, authorization, and enterprise identity integrations such as OAuth and SSO.
  • Drive API-first orchestration across platform services and reusable enterprise capabilities.
  • Collaborate with platform, cloud, infrastructure, application, and security teams to align on standards, integration patterns, and delivery priorities.
  • Establish best practices for platform engineering, internal developer portals, blueprint lifecycle management, and developer experience.

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

Qualifications:
  • Minimum of 10+ years of relevant experience
  • Bachelor's degree preferred and/or equivalent experience
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver production-ready platform capabilities in partnership with architecture, engineering, security, and operations teams.
  • Hands-on background across developer tooling, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, identity integration, API automation, and cloud-native platforms.

Talents Needed for Success:
  • Min 7+ years of software engineering, platform engineering, or related technology delivery experience.
  • Strong expertise in Backstage platform development and internal developer portal implementation.
  • Proven experience building custom Backstage plugins, templates, scaffolder actions, and scaffolder workflows.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Node.js, TypeScript, and React.
  • Experience integrating Backstage with enterprise tooling such as Jenkins, Terraform, TechRadar, GitHub or Bitbucket, Vault, ArgoCD, and GitOps workflows.
  • Strong understanding of developer self-service platforms, internal developer portals, and platform engineering practices.
  • Experience with API-driven orchestration, workflow automation, and reusable infrastructure or application blueprints.
  • Experience implementing RBAC and enterprise authentication patterns including OAuth, SSO, and related identity integrations.
  • Solid understanding of software catalog models, service metadata, ownership, lifecycle, and blueprint concepts.

Preferred:
  • Experience integrating Backstage with Kubernetes or OpenShift in an AWS environment.
  • Familiarity with platform engineering operating models, golden paths, paved roads, and developer experience metrics.
  • Experience operating in large-scale enterprise environments with complex governance, security, and integration requirements.
  • Financial services experience is preferred but not required.


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 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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