Associate Director Platform Engineering

DTCC • Jersey City, NJ

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Enterprise Storage Architect/Engineer is a senior technical leader within the Solutions Design Services (SDS) team, responsible for defining, standardizing, and evolving enterprise storage architectures across on‑premises and cloud environments. In addition to architecture and delivery leadership, this role is expected to serve as a thought leader—helping shape enterprise direction, influence strategy, and represent best practices in modern storage, automation, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience designing and engineering large-scale enterprise storage environments (non-mainframe).
• Strong expertise in block, file, and object storage platforms in on‑premises and cloud environments.
• Demonstrated experience influencing architecture standards and enterprise-wide technical direction.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Working knowledge of observability concepts including metrics, telemetry, and alerting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills suitable for executive, architecture, and governance forums.
• Experience treating storage as a programmable platform or service.
• Experience integrating enterprise storage with containerized and cloud-native workloads.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to AI/ML-assisted operational or AIOps-style tooling.
• Relevant vendor, SNIA, or cloud architecture certifications.
• History of publishing, presenting, or leading technical initiatives across organizations.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve enterprise storage architecture standards, design guidelines, and SDS reference architectures.
• Design scalable block, file, and object storage solutions for enterprise workloads across hybrid environments.
• Serve as a design authority in SDS architecture and design reviews, ensuring consistency, reuse, and long-term sustainability.
• Drive automation-by-default and IaC-first delivery of storage provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Define standard observability patterns for storage platforms including metrics, logging, alerting, dashboards, and runbooks.
• Architect data protection, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions aligned with business resiliency objectives.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools for anomaly detection, root cause analysis, capacity forecasting, and operational efficiency.
• Partner with compute, networking, security, OS, and container platform teams to ensure integrated enterprise solutions.
• Produce high-quality documentation including standards, reference architectures, and operational guidance.
• Provide L3/L4 engineering support for complex production issues, focusing on permanent remediation.
• Act as a recognized subject-matter expert and thought leader for enterprise storage within SDS and partner organizations.
• Contribute to enterprise storage strategy, modernization roadmaps, and long-term platform evolution.
• Research emerging storage technologies, industry trends, and best practices, assessing applicability to the enterprise.
• Represent SDS in architecture forums, governance bodies, vendor briefings, and technical communities of practice.
• Author and socialize whitepapers, recommendations, and design position statements to guide decision-making.
• Mentor engineers and architects, raising overall storage, automation, and observability maturity across teams.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree