Principal Application Architect - Enterprise Architect

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
Tampa bay area, FL
29 Jul 2025

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Tittle: Principal Application Architect - Enterprise Architect

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities? Join our DTCC family, and you'll grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you'll be supported and surrounded by other professionals as you learn new skills, advance your career, and see the impact of your efforts every day.

Pay and Benefits:
  • Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
  • Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
  • Retirement benefits
  • Paid Time Off and other leave of absence

  • Flexible/Hybrid Work Arrangements

Why you'll love this job : Being a member of IT Solutions team, Responsible for the architecture, development and adoption of enterprise business and technical capabilities. Capabilities are realized as assets which may be central (services) or federated (components integrated into consuming solutions) and must be flexible to meet the needs of a range of adopting applications. Responsible for creating, communicating, and facilitating adherence to enterprise-wide application architecture, standards, design principals, guidelines and common solutions. Responsible for developing roadmaps and blueprints to ensure architecture goals are met in both tactical and strategic frames. Collaborates with a broad range of stakeholders including Business Architecture, Domain Architects, Solution Architects, Data Architects, Application Development, various Risk Domains (security, continuity, etc.), Operations, Program and Project management (Agile roles), etc. to assure solutions cost effectively address the broad range of functional and non-functional requirements necessary to uphold the DTCC brand image and meet industry needs. Position requires highly advanced technical skills in multiple technical domains along with demonstrated ability to master new technical domains to a level sufficient to contribute to the delivery of valuable capability assets that accelerate solution delivery and have strong ROI. Exceptional teamwork, communication and leadership skills, particularly the ability to influence, are vital to being effective in this position. Specialized knowledge of DTCC applications and/or financial industry post trade solutions is a significant differentiator among candidates. Candidates who lack such knowledge will be expected to rapidly develop financial industry post trade domain knowledge. Position requires highly advanced analytical skills and demonstrated leadership capability.

Your Primary Responsibilities :

Capability Architecture:
  • Understand business architecture goals and architect assets that can deliver a solid ROI and accelerate AD team solution delivery capability.
  • Understand implementation context and team capabilities to provide appropriate guidance for team to successfully implement capability assets and package those assets for efficient consumption by AD teams creating solutions
  • Work with wide range of stakeholders to assure capability architecture delivery addresses the needs of all stakeholders
  • Assist with early stage analysis including contributing to business cases and estimation
  • Assist with project execution including input to project planning and risk identification
  • Assist with acceptance criteria, particularly packaging assets for self-service consumption
  • Assist with project closure including assessing and helping managing risks to closure
  • Contributes to \"buy vs. build\" analyses of proposed capabilities
  • Identifies, understands, and documents extensions to, and variants from, architectural guidelines

Application Architecture Practice:
  • Research leading ideas, methodologies and technology to enable superior delivery capabilities.
  • Assist compliance and governance when adopting new practices as well as partnering in development of appropriate governance for new technologies and application architecture practices

Application Architecture:
  • Drafts conceptual and logical architecture specifications for both capability assets and for adopting applications
  • Assists project teams during system design with the drafting of logical architectural models
  • Assists project teams during system design to promote the efficient re-use of IT assets
  • Advises project team during system development to assure compliance with architectural principles, guideline and standards
  • Shares DTCC's architectural vision with stakeholders through informal discussion and formal presentations

Application Development:
  • Provides senior level consulting services to augment team skills and provide hands-on education

NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above.

Talents Needed for Success:
  • Minimum of 10 years hands-on experience in application development
  • Minimum of 5 years of above 10 in leadership roles (team lead, design lead, line manager, etc.)

Knowledge and Skills Required:
  • Possess a thorough understanding of common software delivery methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, DevOps)
  • Familiarity with the software Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) and similar benchmarks
  • Technical skills span multiple languages, databases, platforms with emphasis on hosted (vs. shrink wrap) software
  • Technical skills include current leading technologies, particularly API, Cloud and DLT related technologies
  • Maintains current knowledge of marketplace changes, technology changes, and client businesses relevant to DTCC
  • Demonstrates advanced analytical skills
  • Demonstrates advanced verbal, visual and written communication skills in technical domains
  • Demonstrates leadership skills, particularly soft-skills and ability to influence
  • Securities industry background preferred

Additional Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in a technical discipline preferred
  • Years of experience in post-trade processing of global financial transactions is a significant plus

Supervision Exercised:
  • May lead a small team and/or play a leadership role on PoCs, key change initiatives, or critical projects.

Who We Are: DTCC is the heart of the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 21 locations all over the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. In 2020, DTCC's subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at more than U.S. $2.3 quadrillion. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
  • ID: #44466723
  • State: Florida Tampa bay area 33647 Tampa bay area USA
  • City: Tampa bay area
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2022-07-29
  • Deadline: 2022-09-26
  • Category: Et cetera