Cloud Architect

Depository Trust
Coppell, TX
27 Sep 2024

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Cloud Architect

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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 seek challenges with flexibility and patience, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life.

Why You'll Love This Job: Being a member of IT Architecture department, you will be responsible for designing, creating, communicating, and executing the Enterprise Private, Hybrid and Public Cloud Strategy for DTCC and its subsidiaries. This role will focus on developing Enterprise Cloud capabilities, both internal, hybrid and external, and all cloud service types - IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Collaborates with the Infrastructure, Technology Risk Management and Application Development organizations during Cloud System design and development phases, providing advice, interpretation, and review of Enterprise Cloud architecture and design principles. Focuses on overall project technical and architecture design, quality of solution, knowledge transfer to other areas, and mentoring the project technical team members. Conducts research and understands cloud computing industry trends with regards to technology and adoption and can understand and evaluate the use of automated tools and utilities and how they relate in support of DTCC's overall Enterprise Architecture.

Your Responsibilities:
  • Enables DTCC to implement the most optimal and effective, business solutions
  • Maintains understanding of existing DTCC applications and technology solutions for leveraging the reuse of services and for the consolidation of services.
  • Identifies and researches opportunities for converging diverse DTCC solutions to a single architecture.
  • Develops and documents architecture solutions, including designs, guidelines and architecture-specific standards for enterprise-wide implementation.
  • Leads and enables collaboration across technology specialties - ensures that ADM, Infrastructure, Information Security and Architecture are all working together
  • Obtains concurrence and agreement on architecture solutions from, as applicable: Applications Development, Infrastructure, CISO, Internal Audit, and Product Management.
  • Supports adherence to relevant ADM/CMMI, ITIL, internal audit, and risk-management standards. Architects the group's security policies to ensure compliance with relevant departmental, company-wide, and industry-mandated policies and directives.
  • Maintains understanding of emerging architecture concepts and methods and associated technology trends.
  • Conducts presentations and education on Architecture's concepts and solutions to appropriate areas of DTCC.
  • Participates in the design, specification, and implementation of business and technology projects, assuring and resolving adherence to enterprise-wide solutions.
  • Provides guidance and leadership for DTCC's technology standardization process
  • Works across IT to identify opportunities for reusing technology

Technology Related
  • Define standards and policies for the security, compliance and governance of data and information stored or processed at an external Cloud provider, including IaaS (Infrastructure), PaaS (Application Platform) and SaaS (Software) models
  • Establish an Enterprise Cloud strategy, standards and best practices associated with all aspects Cloud offerings. This includes, but is not limited to:
  • Secure and compliant data and messaging egress and ingress
  • Federated authentication and authorization models
  • Automated workload lifecycle management
  • Data and information at rest encryption and security
  • Application porting, integration, and maintenance
  • On-demand, self-service access to Enterprise Cloud applications, platforms and offerings
  • Overall cloud management tools, monitoring, alerting, chargeback, capacity and performance management, and service level objective definitions.

Talents Needed for Success:
  • Advanced degree in a technical discipline preferred
  • Experience with Amazon's EC2, VPC, and S3, Microsoft's Azure, OpenStack and either the JBoss SOA stack
  • In depth knowledge of Cloud Management tools and methodologies
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect preferred, with extensive hands on experience as a Cloud Architect in an enterprise environment
  • Minimum of 10 years' experience in IT platform, storage, and network virtualization architecture and engineering, including:
  • In depth knowledge of private, hybrid and public cloud offerings and vendors
  • In depth knowledge of the complete VMware datacenter and desktop technology stack.
  • In depth knowledge of alternative hypervisor platforms and their management capabilities (Xen, XenServer, KVM, Hyper-V).
  • In depth knowledge of storage and network virtualization technologies, capabilities, trends and the automated interaction with the physical infrastructure (EMC, NetApp, HP, Cisco).
  • In depth knowledge of virtualization management and monitoring technologies, capabilities and market trends
  • In depth knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft Windows Server Operating platforms
  • In depth experience with Cloud methodologies (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), automation, orchestration, cost frameworks, trends and industry-leading private/public/hybrid cloud vendor offerings and interoperability
  • Experience with Amazon Services such as AWS, S3, Elasic load balancing / Block / Relational Database
  • Experience architecting automated data center processes, including provisioning, application and patch management, monitoring and alerting, capacity monitoring and planning, leveraging execution and human approval workflow design and implementation
  • Experience with Business Continuity and Disaster Recover design, planning and implementation for virtualized infrastructures
  • Experience in Linux System Administration
  • Experience scripting with bash, Ruby, Python and/or similar
  • Experience in virtualization tools like Vagrant and Docker
  • Experience with Continuous Development/Deployment/Integration design and best practices
  • Experience managing and working with configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible)
  • Experience in Agile development practices (Kanban or Scrum)
  • Ability to see opportunities for improvement, take ownership and work closely with others to drive operational improvement
  • Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to correlate system behaviors based on known interdependencies between those systems
  • Ability to handle ambiguity, embracing change and helping others see it as an opportunity and able to stay focused on goals while adapting to change
  • Experience with IBM Mainframe platforms including LPAR, IFL, zVM & zLinux
  • Experience with IBM P-Series platforms including LPAR, dynamic LPAR, Micro-Partitioning, Virtual I/O Server and Capacity on Demand
  • Experience with MS Windows (server and desktop), Solaris, Linux (RHEL & SLES), AIX Operating platforms
  • Experience with Web technologies including web services architectures and security
  • Experience with RDBMS technologies including Oracle RAC, Sybase, MS-SQL, DB2
  • Experience with 10G & 40G network technologies and I/O Virtualization
  • Experience overhauling legacy applications to work with modern technologies
  • Experienced with Atlassian as an Agile development management tool (JIRA)
  • Experience with various application architectures
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.

About Us

About DTCC

DTCC safeguards the financial markets and helps them run efficiently, in times of prosperity and crisis. We are uniquely positioned at the center of global trading activity, processing over 100 million financial transactions every day, pioneering industry-wide, post-trade solutions and maintaining multiple data and operating centers worldwide. From where we stand, we can anticipate the industry's needs and we're working to continually improve the world's most resilient, secure and efficient market infrastructure. Our employees are driven to deliver innovative technologies that improve efficiency, lower cost and bring stability and certainty to the post-trade lifecycle.

Our work environment favors openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you'll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It's the chance to make a difference at a company that's truly one of a kind.

About the Team

IT Architecture and Enterprise Services are responsible for enabling digital transformation of DTCC. The group manages complexity of the technology landscape within DTCC and enhances agility, robustness and security of the technology footprint. It does so by serving as the focal point for all technology architectural activities in the organization as well as engineering a portfolio of foundational technology assets to enable our digital transformation.
  • ID: #20329770
  • State: Texas Coppell 75019 Coppell USA
  • City: Coppell
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2021-09-27
  • Deadline: 2021-11-24
  • Category: Architect/engineer/CAD