Principal Software Engineer - Backend Developer

Depository Trust Clearing Corporation - Boston, MA

Full-time - Principal

Boston, MA

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

As a Principal Software Engineer - Backend Developer at DTCC, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our technology solutions within the financial markets. This position is designed for individuals who are ready to make a significant impact by working on innovative projects and collaborating with a dynamic and supportive team. At DTCC, we are committed to fostering a thriving internal community and creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of the world we serve. The Information Technology group is responsible for delivering secure and reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. Your contributions will be essential in developing high-quality information and building infrastructure capabilities that meet client needs while implementing data standards and governance. In this role, you will be responsible for creating, designing, deploying, and supporting applications, programs, and software solutions. This 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. You will work closely with business partners and external clients to define requirements and implement solutions that address complex business problems. Your primary responsibilities will include leading technical processes and designs with a focus on reliability, data integrity, maintainability, reuse, extensibility, usability, and scalability. You will collaborate with infrastructure partners to identify and deploy optimal hosting environments, define scalability and performance criteria for assigned applications, and ensure that applications meet performance, privacy, and security requirements. Additionally, you will be responsible for tuning application performance, verifying test plans for compliance, supporting business and technical presentations, and mitigating risks by following established procedures and monitoring controls. You will also help develop solutions that balance cost and delivery while meeting business requirements, implement technology-specific best practices, and partner with cross-functional teams to ensure the success of product strategy and project deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Lead needed technical processes and designs considering reliability, data integrity, maintainability, reuse, extensibility, usability and scalability.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure partners to identify and deploy optimal hosting environments.
• Define scalability and performance criteria for assigned applications.
• Ensure application meets the performance, privacy, and security requirements.
• Tune application performance to eliminate and reduce issues.
• Verify test plans to ensure compliance with performance and security requirements.
• Support business and technical presentations in relation to technology platforms and business solutions.
• Mitigate risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls.
• Help develop solutions that balance cost and delivery while meeting business requirements.
• Implement technology-specific best practices that are consistent with corporate standards.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure the success of product strategy and project deliverables.
• Manage the software development process.
• Drive new technical and business process improvements.
• Estimate total costs of modules/projects covering both hours and expense.
• Research and evaluate specific technologies, and applications, and contribute to the solution design.
• Construct application Architecture encompassing end-to-end designs.
• Mitigate risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in backend application development and system analysis.
• Strong database background in Oracle and/or Snowflake; any experience in AWS Aurora Postgres is a plus.
• Good understanding and working knowledge of data replication technologies like Oracle Golden Gate.
• Expertise in writing PL/SQL code.
• Hands-on experience in tuning database queries using tools like OEM (Oracle Enterprise Manager).
• Interpret accurately the Oracle query execution plan.
• Query plan pinning and SQL profiling.
• Solid understanding of Linux/Unix operating system and shell scripting.
• Strong working experience with cloud native services like AWS EC2, AWS RDS etc.
• Expertise in modernizing and migrating build and deployment infrastructure for applications running in public and private cloud.
• Troubleshooting complex issues in AWS cloud and on-premise environment.
• Integrating different tool sets for builds, security scans, deployments & reporting using API based web-service calls.
• Creating and maintaining an elastic CI-CD infrastructure.
• Ensuring the governance policies and audit compliance requirements are met.
• Experience in data modeling, performance tuning and database administration.
• Building automation tools using Jenkins, Maven, Docker, Buildah, Podman.
• Implementing automation using scripting languages such as perl, python or ruby.
• Working with IaC tool like ArgoCD, Terraform.
• Provisioning AWS services like EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS etc.

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.
• Flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote.