Lead Software Engineer

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Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC? Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic, 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 reflects 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.

• 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 IT Fin Sight Delivery team at DTCC focuses on delivering secure, scalable, and resilient technology solutions for financial risk management. This role specializes in planning, detailing technical requirements, designing, developing, and testing all software systems and applications for the firm. Works closely with architects, product managers, project management, and end‑users in the development and improvement of existing software systems and applications, proposing and recommending solutions that tackle complex business problems.

• Act as a technical expert on one or more applications used by DTCC.
• Work with the Business System Analyst to ensure designs satisfy functional requirements.
• Partner with Infrastructure to identify and deploy optimal hosting environments.
• Tune application performance to eliminate and reduce issues.
• Research and evaluate technical solutions consistent with DTCC technology standards.
• Align risk and control processes into day‑to‑day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; advance appropriately.
• Apply different software development methodologies dependent on project needs.
• Contribute expertise to the design of components or individual programs, and participate in the construction and functional testing.
• Support development teams, testing, fixing, and production support.
• Build applications and construct unit test cases that ensure compliance with functional and non‑functional requirements.
• Work with peers to mature ways of working, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.

• Minimum of 6-8 years of related experience.
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.

• 6+ years of active development experience/expertise in Java/J2EE based applications, demonstrated ability with Java 17 or above.
• Strong backend framework experience – Spring Boot.
• Exposure to XML/XSD, JSON and similar data presentation components.
• Familiarity with Microservices based architecture and distributed systems.
• Ability to develop and work with REST APIs using Spring Boot framework.
• Experience with CI/CD technologies like GIT, Jenkins, joCoCo and Maven.
• Strong database and PL/SQL skills (Oracle, Snowflake preferred).
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure and Kubernetes, Docker is desirable.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodology.
• Experience with code coverage, junit5, Mockito, Power Mock.
• Solid understanding of software design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
• Excellent problem‑solving, communication, and leadership skills.

• Experience in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Exposure to full stack development…