Principal Data Engineer

DTCC • Jersey City, NJ

4h • 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 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.

The Impact you will have in this role:

Being a member of IT Architecture & Enterprise Services team, you will provide
hands-on technical leadership for building and operating enterprise-scale data
pipelines and data platforms that enable enterprise reporting, analytics, and
insights. This role owns delivery end-to-end and ensures production reliability,
strong engineering discipline, and robust CI/CD practices.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred and/or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data warehousing, or data integration roles
• Strong hands-on expertise with SQL
• Strong experience with Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouse platforms
• Experience with Talend or similar enterprise ETL / ELT tools
• Conceptual understanding of data visualization tools like Power BI or similar.
• Experience in working with CI/CD pipelines for data or database deployments (e.g., Jenkins, Liquibase)
• Experience working in Agile / SDLC delivery environments
• Strong communication skills and ability to lead technical discussions
• Experience in regulated or production-critical enterprise environments

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with Jira, source control, and release governance processes
• Prior experience leading distributed or hybrid teams across multiple locations.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of scalable, resilient data pipelines for enterprise analytics and reporting
• Own end-to-end execution from requirements and design through deployment and production support
• Serve as technical lead and subject matter expert for data engineering standards and solutions
• Partner with Product Owners, Architects, and BI teams to translate business and regulatory needs into technical solutions
• Mentor data engineers; conduct design and code reviews across onshore and offshore teams
• Ensure operational excellence through incident, change, and release management practices
• Embed data quality, reconciliation, security, and risk controls into engineering workflows
• Drive modernization and automation of legacy data processes

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.
• 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).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level