Principal File Transfer Engineer

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.

Pay and 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)

The Impact you will have in this role:

Being a member of IT Strategy & Business Management team, the Principal Systems Engineering family is responsible for the entire technical effort to evolve and verify solutions that satisfy client needs. The primary focus is centered on reducing risk and improving the efficiency, performance, stability, security, and quality of all systems and platforms. This role specializes in the analysis, evaluation, design, testing, implementation, support, and debugging of all middleware, mainframe, and distributed platforms, tools, and systems of the firm.

The File Transfer Engineer is responsible for the design, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of file transfer platforms that support secure, reliable, and high volume data movement between internal systems and external clients. The role is critical to ensuring platform resiliency, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence across managed file transfer services.

This position works closely with application teams, infrastructure partners, security, and external clients to enable secure integrations, support onboarding, and maintain production stability for mission-critical data exchanges.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

Platform Engineering & Operations

• Implement, operate, and support managed file transfer platforms, including IBM Connect:
  
  Direct (NDM), IBM Data Power (SFTP) and AWS Transfer Family (SFTP) for internal and external connectivity
• Monitor file transfer workflows to ensure high availability, throughput, and transaction success rates
• Troubleshoot complex production issues involving connectivity, authentication, encryption, performance, and protocol behavior
• Participate in on-call rotations and support incident response for Tier-0 / Tier-1 platforms.

Client & Application Support

• Support client and application onboarding activities by providing secure connectivity patterns, testing support, and production readiness validation
• Partner with internal application teams and external clients to diagnose issues, optimize configurations, and resolve integration challenges
• Maintain strong service reliability and operational SLAs for critical business workflows.

Security, Compliance & Audit

• Enforce secure file transfer standards including encryption in transit, strong authentication, key management, and least-privilege access
• Support audit and regulatory compliance efforts by maintaining enforceable controls, evidentiary artifacts, and documented operational procedures
• Collaborate with security and technology risk teams on reviews, remediation efforts, and control enhancements.

Lifecycle Management & Resiliency

• Execute platform lifecycle activities including upgrades, patching, decommissioning of end-of-life components, and adoption of supported releases
• Contribute to…