Transformation Delivery Director

DTCC • Jersey City, NJ

17h • Hybrid

About The Position

As a member of the Enterprise Transformation team, the Transformation Delivery
Director leads a portfolio of complex programs and cross-functional initiatives
acting as strategic partner to business, technology, operations, and control
leaders. This role is responsible for ensuring alignment between enterprise
strategy, investment, and execution while driving disciplined delivery,
transparency, and measurable business outcomes across the portfolio for DTCC,
our clients, and the global financial markets. This role requires a
well-seasoned program management and people leader with a strong enterprise
mindset, executive presence, and the ability to lead through influence in a
fast-paced, highly matrixed, and regulated environment. Success in this position
demands the ability to oversee multiple complex programs, engage executives to
shape priorities, resolve tradeoffs, and remove barriers, and develop
high-performing teams of program management professionals that deliver
predictable outcomes in the face of ambiguity and evolving enterprise needs.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
• Minimum 12 years of related experience, and 8+ years of experience leading complex, cross-functional enterprise programs and portfolios spanning business and technology initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively at the executive level, with strong judgment, influence, and communication skills.
• Advanced capability in developing executive level materials and narratives, including dashboards, decision papers, and strategic narratives.
• Strong financial and analytical acumen, including experience overseeing budgets, investment tradeoffs, and outcome realization.
• Experience with portfolio and program management tooling (e.g., Planview, Jira) and enterprise governance models.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio & Program Leadership
• Own end-to-end accountability for portfolio and program delivery health, including delivery performance, financials, risk posture, and sustained business adoption.
• Oversee multiple complex enterprise programs, ensuring consistency of execution, governance, and outcome realization.
• Translate enterprise strategy and business objectives into integrated, multi-year portfolio delivery strategies, sequencing investments and managing cross program dependencies.
• Establish and maintain a portfolio operating cadence, including governance forums, planning cycles, escalation mechanisms, and executive reporting.
• Executive & Stakeholder Engagement
• Build and sustain strong executive stakeholder relationships, shaping scope, delivery approach, prioritization, and tradeoffs to optimize enterprise value.
• Partner with enterprise portfolio leaders to balance delivery rigor, financials, capacity constraints, and evolving business priorities across the enterprise.
• Develop and deliver executive level communications, including portfolio health views, risk narratives, dependency analyses, investment tradeoffs, and outcome reporting.
• Delivery Governance & Risk Management
• Ensure disciplined application of PMI aligned complex program and portfolio management practices across the portfolio.
• Proactively manage portfolio-level risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and financials, identifying systemic trends and driving timely resolution and alignment at the appropriate leadership level.
• Partner with governance, risk, and control stakeholders to ensure compliance, transparency, and effective escalation.
• People & Capability Leadership
• Lead, coach, and develop program leaders, building and sustaining a high performing transformation delivery team by strengthening program management capability, standards, and ways of working.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and talent development across Transformation Delivery.
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

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: Director