Transformation Delivery Director

As a member of the Enterprise Transformation team, the Transformation Delivery Director leads a portfolio of complex programs and cross-functional initiatives supporting Digital Asset Solutions while acting as strategic partner to business, technology, operations, and control leaders. This role is responsible for ensuring alignment between enterprise strategy, investment, and execution while driving disciplined delivery, transparency, and measurable business outcomes across the portfolio for DTCC, our clients, and the global financial markets. This role requires a well-seasoned program management and people leader with a strong enterprise mindset, executive presence, and the ability to lead through influence in a fast-paced, highly matrixed, and regulated environment. Success in this position demands the ability to oversee multiple complex programs, engage executives to shape priorities, resolve tradeoffs, and remove barriers, and develop high-performing teams of program management professionals that deliver predictable outcomes in the face of ambiguity and evolving enterprise needs.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

Portfolio & Program Leadership

• Own end-to-end accountability for portfolio and program delivery health, including delivery performance, financials, risk posture, and sustained business adoption.
• Oversee multiple complex enterprise programs, ensuring consistency of planning, execution, governance, and outcome realization.
• Translate enterprise strategy and business objectives into integrated, multi-year portfolio delivery strategies, sequencing investments and managing cross program dependencies.
• Establish and maintain a portfolio operating cadence, including governance forums, planning cycles, escalation mechanisms, and executive reporting.

Executive & Stakeholder Engagement

• Build and sustain strong executive stakeholder relationships, shaping scope, delivery approach, prioritization, and tradeoffs to optimize enterprise value.
• Partner with enterprise portfolio leaders to balance delivery rigor, financials, capacity constraints, and evolving business priorities across the enterprise.
• Develop and deliver executive level communications, including portfolio health views, risk narratives, dependency analyses, investment tradeoffs, and outcome reporting.

Delivery Governance & Risk Management

• Ensure disciplined application of PMI aligned complex program and portfolio management practices across the portfolio.
• Proactively manage portfolio-level risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and financials, identifying systemic trends and driving timely resolution and alignment at the appropriate leadership level.
• Partner with governance, risk, and control stakeholders to ensure compliance, transparency, and effective escalation.

People & Capability Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop program leaders, building and sustaining a high performing transformation delivery team by strengthening program management capability, standards, and ways of working.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and talent development across Transformation Delivery.
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

• Minimum 10 years of related experience, and 8+ years of experience leading complex, cross-functional enterprise programs and portfolios spanning business and technology initiatives.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively at the executive level, with strong judgment, influence, and communication skills.
• Advanced capability in developing executive-level materials and narratives, including dashboards, decision papers, and strategic narratives.
• Strong financial and analytical acumen, including experience overseeing budgets, investment tradeoffs, and outcome realization.
• Experience with portfolio and program management tooling (e.g., Planview, Jira) and enterprise governance models.
• Advanced program or portfolio management certification (e.g., PgMP, PMP) strongly preferred.
• SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) certification or experience is a plus, including hands-on experience facilitating Agile execution, dependency management, and program-level delivery governance.
• Experience with digital assets and/or blockchain technology and products a plus

Talents Needed for Success:

• Demonstrated mastery of PMI best practices for Complex Program and Portfolio Management, including governance design, benefits realization, cross program dependency management, and systemic risk oversight.
• Strong enterprise mindset with the ability to align strategy, execution, and outcomes across diverse initiatives and stakeholders.
• Executive presence and credibility, with the ability to influence, challenge constructively, and drive alignment at senior levels.
• Proven ability to lead program management professionals, developing high performing talent while maintaining accountability for results.
• Systems thinking orientation, identifying patterns and trends across programs to proactively address systematic treats and delivery constraints.
• Ability to balance strategic focus with delivery rigor in dynamic, high change environments.
• Commitment to continuous improvement of delivery practices, governance, and organizational capability.

Full time

Are you ready to make an impact at 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.

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).

With over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes, bringing enhanced resilience and soundness to existing financial markets while advancing the digital asset ecosystem. In 2024, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $3.7 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $99 trillion. DTCC’s Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 25 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at www.dtcc.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring 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.

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