The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) · 1 day ago
Senior Principal Solutions Architect
Jersey City, NJ
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expThe Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets, committed to helping employees grow and succeed. The Senior Principal Solutions Architect will provide strategic leadership for enterprise-wide observability initiatives, ensuring DTCC platforms operate with regulatory-grade visibility and resilience.
FinanceFinancial ExchangesFinancial ServicesInformation Technology
Responsibilities
Shape and champion DTCC’s enterprise observability strategy, ensuring alignment with operational resilience, business continuity, and regulatory expectations
Define multi-year roadmaps for observability modernization, including OpenTelemetry adoption, enhanced signal correlation, and AIOps-enablement
Establish enterprise-wide architectural standards, patterns, and controls for telemetry, monitoring, alerting, visualization, and retention
Drive platform-engineering approaches that deliver observability as a scalable, self-service capability for application and infrastructure teams
Ensure all critical production services are instrumented for real-time visibility that connects technical health to business impact
Influence senior leadership through clear communication of observability risks, maturity, and strategic investment options
Integrate data observability into analytics ecosystems to support regulatory reporting, risk analytics, and client-impact transparency
Guide engineering teams in embedding observability throughout the SDLC, including NFR testing, architecture reviews, and operational readiness
Lead the design of event-correlation and alerting frameworks that reduce noise, accelerate incident triage, and enable automated remediation
Define enterprise dashboards that provide 360° visibility into service reliability, transaction flows, and business-processing health
Maintain an enterprise observability architecture covering metrics, logs, traces, events, RUM, data pipelines, and telemetry governance
Author policies, standards, and procedures for monitoring, alerting, logging, visualization, and retention
Partner with platform, cloud, and infrastructure engineering to integrate observability into modernization and cloud-adoption strategies
Present architecture strategies and program health to senior technology and business leaders
Lead enterprise assessments, failure-mode analysis, chaos engineering practices, and post-incident improvement cycles
Translate telemetry insights into business-level narratives that inform risk, resilience, and operational decision-making
Qualification
Required
Minimum 10 years of related experience
Strategic mindset with the ability to translate business outcomes into technical architectures
Deep knowledge of observability patterns, resiliency engineering, and automated recovery pipelines
Expertise in hybrid-cloud and public cloud architectural design
Strong understanding of financial services regulatory expectations for operational resilience
Proficiency in Java, Linux, SQL, and scripting for prototyping and validation
Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills
Familiarity with resilience and continuity frameworks (e.g., ISO 22301, NIST SP 800-34) and operational risk management
Preferred
Bachelor's degree in a technical field (preferred) or equivalent experience
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.
Company
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)
With over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
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Late StageLeadership Team
Frank La Salla
President, CEO and Director of DTCC
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Edward Cortes
Executive Director
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