Associate Director Platform Engineering in City of Westminster

This role serves as a key leader for the Web3 Platform Infrastructure team, supporting a wide range of business functions across DTCC. As the manager of this organization, you will provide direction on engineering best practices across software development, DevSecOps, platform architecture, and security architecture, while partnering with senior leadership on strategic decisions that guide the evolution of our Web3 capabilities. The platform includes both in-house-built services and integrated vendor solutions. In this role, you will be responsible for managing, developing, and scaling a high-performing global engineering team. This includes setting clear goals, driving accountability, fostering a culture of technical excellence, empowering team members through coaching and mentorship, and ensuring ongoing growth in skills and capabilities. You will oversee resource planning, recruitment, and talent development to ensure the team can meet current and future business needs.

Primary Responsibilities

• Foster a team environment where engineers clearly understand how their work contributes to the organization's platform strategy and broader business goals.
• Oversee the team's day-to-day operations, ensuring timely delivery of platform engineering initiatives and resiliency testing across multiple global locations.
• Coach, mentor, and develop team members, supporting both technical growth and career progression.
• Lead assessments of the current platform ecosystem to identify critical gaps, legacy components, and technical debt, and drive actionable plans for modernization and improvement.
• Lead a team of platform engineers and technical architects, while also coordinating virtual contributions from domain subject matter experts as needed.
• Support efforts to attract, grow, and retain high-quality technical talent by providing constructive feedback, career coaching, and development opportunities.
• Ensure that team execution aligns with organizational policies, engineering standards, and compliance requirements.
• Reduce operational and security risk by enforcing proper controls, following established procedures, and demonstrating strong ethical judgment in decision-making.

Talents Needed for Success

• 7+ years of hands-on software or platform engineering experience, including 3+ years in a technical leadership or management role driving engineering teams and platform initiatives.
• Proven track record designing, building, and operating large-scale, cloud-native platforms, with a deep understanding of distributed systems, reliability engineering, and infrastructure automation.
• Strong command of Agile delivery practices and enterprise-scale software engineering processes, including CI/CD, DevSecOps, and iterative development.
• Exceptional communication, collaboration, and leadership abilities, with the capability to influence, align, and guide cross-functional engineering teams and stakeholders.
• Practical experience with public cloud platforms, specifically Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS), and the ability to architect and manage hybrid or multi-cloud solutions.
• Good understanding of cloud security, data governance, compliance frameworks, and operational risk, with the ability to embed these controls into platform designs and engineering practices.
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance. 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.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive.
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits.
• Pension.
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• 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).