Lead Software Engineer - Snowflake & Java
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (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 Development family is responsible for creating, designing, deploying, and supporting applications, programs, and software solutions. May include research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities related to software products used internally or externally on product platforms supported by the firm. The software development process requires in-depth subject matter expertise in existing and emerging development methodologies, tools, and programming languages. Software Developers work closely with business partners and / or external clients in defining requirements and implementing solutions. The Software Engineering role specializes in planning, documenting 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 enhancement of existing software systems and applications, proposing and recommending solutions that solve complex business problems.
Your Primary Responsibilities
- Act as a technical expert on one or more applications utilized 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; escalates 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, troubleshooting, and production support
- Create 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
- Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately
- Minimum of 6 years of related experience
- Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
- 6+ years of hands‑ on software engineering experience, delivering reliable, production‑ ready application and data solutions
- Strong Snowflake experience, including SQL development, data modeling, performance optimization, tasks, streams, views, and security controls
- Solid Core Java experience (multithreading, concurrency, backend services) and experience integrating applications with data platforms
- Proven experience supporting production environments, including troubleshooting, monitoring, and incident response
- Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and release support
- Experience working in Agile / Scrum delivery teams
- Strong functional and business understanding, with the ability to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions
- Strong focus on reliability, risk, and controls, embedded in day‑ to‑ day engineering and operational work
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong ownership, and the ability to lead through influence in fast‑ paced environments
- Experience with modern cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) and associated services; familiarity with resolving cloud‑ related operational issues
- Python for automation, scripting, or data processing
- Experience with Disaster Recovery (DR) and business continuity, including planning, testing, and validation
- Experience improving observability, alerting, and monitoring to reduce noise and improve service stability
- Demonstrated passion for automation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence
- Comfort working with global, distributed teams and operating with urgency
- Willingness to mentor junior engineers and actively contribute to a collaborative team culture