Executive Director Infrastructure Engineering

DTCC • Jersey City, NJ

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC? 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 Impact You will have in this Role
The Executive Director Infrastructure Engineering is accountable for defining and driving the technical North Star for DTCC’s cloud ecosystem, ensuring that engineering efforts across platform, infrastructure, security, and application domains are aligned, coherent, and converging toward a unified target state. This role ensures that the firm’s cloud platform evolves as a deliberate, engineered system. This role operates at the intersection of engineering, architecture, risk, and operations, with accountability not for delivering individual systems, but for ensuring that all systems collectively evolve toward a cohesive, scalable, and resilient cloud platform.

Requirements

• 12+ years in cloud platform engineering, distributed systems, or large-scale infrastructure environments or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated experience driving technical direction across multiple engineering domains.
• Proven ability to influence senior engineering leaders and align teams without direct authority.
• Deep understanding of: Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, hybrid). Infrastructure-as-Code and automation models. Resilience, observability, and distributed system design.
• Experience operating in large, matrixed, regulated environments.

Nice To Haves

• Experience defining and evolving enterprise-scale platform architectures.
• Familiarity with: Policy-as-code, compliance automation, and audit integration. Platform product models and internal developer platforms.
• Prior roles as a principal engineer, distinguished engineer, or equivalent.
• Systems thinker: sees the platform as an integrated system, not isolated components.
• Opinionated but pragmatic: provides clear direction grounded in reality.
• Outcome-focused: prioritizes platform effectiveness over theoretical purity.
• Influential without authority: aligns teams through credibility, clarity, and evidence.
• Bias toward simplification: reduces unnecessary complexity across the platform.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the target-state vision for the cloud platform, including: Platform capabilities (compute, networking, data, identity, observability, resilience). Engineering patterns and composability models. Service interaction models and boundaries.
• Establish a clear technical direction, based on: Business priorities (resilience, scalability, cost efficiency). Regulatory and risk expectations.
• Ensure alignment across IT (e.g., infrastructure, middleware, data, DevSecOps, networking, security) to build capabilities that are interoperable and composable.
• Identify and address: Fragmentation across platform capabilities. Redundant or conflicting engineering efforts. Gaps between architectural intent and engineering implementation.
• Drive cross-domain alignment decisions, including tradeoffs between standardization and flexibility.
• Act as the engineering arbiter for core platform design decisions and tradeoffs impacting scalability, resilience, and operability.
• Provide clear, decisive guidance where multiple teams have overlapping ownership.
• Translate high-level strategy and architectural direction into: Reference implementations. Engineering patterns and blueprints. Policy-as-code and automation guardrails.
• Ensure that direction is not only defined, but: Proven through real implementations. Embedded into platform engineering pipelines. Consumable by delivery teams without ambiguity.
• Define and maintain a holistic cloud platform capability model.
• Ensure that domain-level roadmaps: Roll up to a coherent platform evolution. Avoid creating disconnected or incompatible capabilities.
• Partner with leadership to align: Investment decisions. Capability sequencing. Platform maturity milestones.
• Drive adoption of: Standardized platform patterns. Reference architectures. Reusable modules and services.
• Monitor adoption trends and proactively address drift from standards and proliferation of one-off solutions.
• Ensure that platform direction is continuously refined based on: Production incidents and failure modes. Operational friction and bottlenecks. Engineering team feedback.

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: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed