Development Associate Director

Associate Director – Technology Lead

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:

We are seeking a seasoned Associate Director – Technology Lead to provide hands-on engineering leadership and delivery oversight across Appian (Low-Code BPM), Talend (Data Integration), and SQL-based data platforms. This role is critical to improving release predictability, production stability, and engineering quality across globally distributed teams.

The successful candidate will combine deep technical foundations with exceptional leadership, delivery discipline, and stakeholder management. This role is accountable not only for what we build, but how reliably and sustainably we deliver enterprise-grade solutions.

This is a leadership role for someone who can set standards, enforce rigor, coach teams, and partner with business and technology stakeholders to ensure scalable, resilient, and high-quality outcomes.

Your

Primary Responsibilities:

Technology & Engineering Leadership

• Provide clear technical vision and strategic direction across Appian, Talend, and SQL-based platforms.
• Establish and enforce solution architecture standards, reusable patterns, and engineering best practices.
• Serve as the senior technical authority, reviewing designs and challenging solutions that introduce delivery, scalability, or operational risk.
• Drive consistent adoption of enterprise engineering principles, including modularity, reusability, performance, and security-by-design.

Delivery Excellence & Operational Rigor

• Own end-to-end delivery accountability, from solution design through development, testing, release, and production stabilization.
• Address historical delivery issues by strengthening release readiness, defect prevention, and root-cause remediation practices.
• Implement and govern SDLC controls, including design reviews, code quality standards, testing expectations, and production readiness criteria.
• Actively manage delivery risk, dependencies, and cross-team coordination, particularly across globally distributed teams.
• Ensure predictable delivery through strong planning discipline, execution tracking, and escalation management.

Quality, Stability & Continuous Improvement

• Drive a quality-first culture, prioritizing defect prevention over detection.
• Partner with QA and Dev Ops teams to improve test automation, CI/CD maturity, deployment reliability, and rollback strategies.
• Analyze production issues and missed delivery commitments to identify systemic gaps and implement sustainable corrective actions.
• Define and track engineering metrics (e.g., defect leakage, release stability, cycle time) to continuously improve delivery performance.

Platform & Domain Leadership

• Lead and mentor multi-disciplinary, global engineering teams, including:
• Appian BPM developers
• Talend data integration engineers
• SQL / data engineers
• Pr…