Capacity Assessment Associate Director
About The Position
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. Serves as a dedicated technology resource for advancing DTCC’s business opportunities and providing industry thought leadership for leveraging new technology. The goal of this new department is to partner internally with IT, our business and regulatory divisions and externally with clients, regulators, and fintech vendors, to help build new platforms and business models to advance DTCC’s mission to support the financial markets.
Requirements
- Minimum of 10 years of related experience
- Bachelor's degree in a mathematics / statistics discipline preferred or equivalent work experience
- Expertise in mainframe technology and components (CECs, LPARs, JCL, automated scheduling software)
- Expertise in analysis of mainframe capacity / performance data (SMF, RMF, CICS, DB2, MQ)
- Excellent analytical skills including data exploration, analysis, and production of models
- MICS/MXG/SAS ITRM experience required
- SAS experience required
- Excellent MS Office skills, in particular advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills
Nice To Haves
- HTML, JSON experience is highly desirable
Responsibilities
- Ensure the successful daily processing / reporting of 30 different MICS units split by LPAR and work type (Examples: SMF/RMF component, CICS, DB2, MQ, mainframe web logs)
- Apply MICS maintenance to support new processors, z/OS operating systems and general updates
- Ad-hoc reporting inquiries such as frequency of a specific function, transaction, or job
- Monthly Mainframe Capacity Reports including Measurement of system resources usage for all LPARs, Usage Trends, Top-N lists, Peak Profiles, Threshold Exception, etc.
- Prepare and Present Monthly Mainframe Capacity Planning Review meeting documents
- Annual Mainframe Capacity Report
- Resource usage by Application System ID
- Ad-hoc analyses as requested
- Collection and reporting of business volume data from varied sources
- Resource Forecasting and monthly review of forecasts to actuals
- Risk assessments of extreme market conditions for selected business streams
- Consultations with Capacity Stress Test team (includes reviews of their reporting)
- Produce/update a Business Process Requirements document for selected business streams
- Correlation Analysis, Business volume to System Resources
- Pattern Recognition / Detection of outliers
- Linear / Logistic Regression, ARIMA forecasts, integrating projections with forecast data
- Ad hoc report development for senior business and management forums
- Quarterly report creation for the IT Governance Committee
- Produce documentation, test results as requested by the Model Validation Committee
- Policy procedure documentation with supporting evidence for regulatory, audit bodies
- Ensure the successful daily processing of multiple processing streams split by LPAR and work type
- Determine CPU and Storage usage by application system ID
- Monthly delivery of daily data to for chargeback processing and reporting
- Ad-hoc inquiries regarding systems suspected of high CPU or storage consumption, to control costs
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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
