Lead IT Security Engineer

Job Description

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’re 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.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits
• Pension
• 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 of your choosing)

The impact you will have in this role:

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.

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced and highly organized Change & Release Manager to lead / govern end-to-end Change and Release Management activities across the Identity & Access Management (IAM) portfolio. The ideal candidate should possess extensive experience in ITIL-based Change and Release Management, strong stakeholder management skills, and solid functional knowledge of IAM technologies including Privileged Access Management (PAM), Secret Management, PKI/Certificate Management, Active Directory Services, ARC, and related identity platforms.

The role is responsible for planning, tracking, coordinating, governing, and successfully delivering production changes and releases while ensuring compliance, minimal business disruption, and successful stakeholder communication. The individual will act as the primary liaison between engineering teams, operations teams, business stakeholders, CAB members, vendors, and leadership to ensure smooth, well-governed, and successful delivery of IAM initiatives.

Your

Primary Responsibilities:

• Own and govern the end-to-end lifecycle of Change Requests and Releases across the IAM portfolio, ensuring timely planning, review, approval, implementation, validation, and closure in accordance with organizational Change and Release Management processes.
• Review and assess change requests for completeness, technical impact, implementation approach, risk assessment, rollback plans, testing results, and required approvals to ensure deployment readiness and minimize operational risk.
• Plan, coordinate, and manage release schedules, deployment calendars, maintenance windows, and production implementations across IAM platforms including PAM, Vault, PKI, Active Directory (AD), ARC, and related security services.
• Act as the primary point of coordination between application teams, infrastructure teams, security teams, operations teams, business stakeholders, vendors,…