Principal Software Engineer

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• 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 IT CSS - WRAFT Delivery team, you will provide technical expertise and may coordinate some day-to-day deliverables for the team. Assists in the technical design of large business systems; builds applications, interfaces between applications, understands data security, retention, and recovery. Research technologies independently and recommend appropriate solutions. Contributes to technology-specific best practices & standards; contributes to success criteria from design through deployment, including, reliability, cost-effectiveness, performance, data integrity, maintainability, reuse, extensibility, usability and scalability; contributes expertise on significant application components, vendor products, program languages, databases, operating systems, etc., and guides less experienced staff during the build and test phases.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Platforms - works with Infrastructure partners to stand up development, testing, and production environments.

• Requirements Elaboration - works with the Functional Architect to ensure designs satisfy functional requirements.

• Data Modeling - reviews and extends data models.

• System Performance - contributes to solutions that satisfy performance requirements; constructs test cases and strategies that account for performance requirements; tunes application performance issues.

• Security - implements solutions and complete test plans working mentoring other team members in standard process.

• Standards - is aware of technology standards and understands technical solutions need to be consistent with them.

• Documentation - establishes and maintains system documentation.

• Effectively manages individual and team performance, maintaining high standards for team members.

• Supports team in managing client expectations and resolving issues on time.

• Ensures own and team's practices support success across all geographic locations.

• Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to supervise and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately.

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

Qualifications:

• Min 8+ years' experience in application development or related experience

• Bachelor's degree in technical/computer field and/or related experience required

Talents Needed for Success:

• Technology Expertise - is a domain expert on one or more of programming languages, vendor products, DTCC applications, data structures, business lines.

• Is familiar with different software development methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Kanban)

• Is aware of frameworks - that promote concepts of isolation, extensibility, and extendibility.

• Strong proficiency in delivery of Java-based distributed applications using frameworks such as Spring Boot

• Experience with requirements review and delivery estimates working on an agile squad.

• Experience crafting automated unit test cases using JUnit, Mockito, or other frameworks.

• Familiarity with database concepts including writing SQL queries, stored procedures, and performance tuning.

• Familiarity with Linux OS

• Experience with CI/CD pipeline tooling.

• Front-end development experience with UI frameworks such as Angular is a plus.

• Positive demeanor and desire to learn.

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.

About Us

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 https://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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About the Team

To maintain strong alignment between IT and the business, we are bringing together all Solutions-focused teams under a unified technology organization, IT Solutions. The newly-formed IT Solutions department combines Application Development and Enterprise Application Support functions, allowing us to leverage synergies to support the Solutions business lines.