Principal Application Support Engineer

As a Principal Application Support Engineer, you will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for the reliability, resiliency, and operational excellence of DTCC’s Institutional Trade Processing (ITP) platforms supporting global cross-border equity and debt trade processing and settlement.

Leveraging Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, you will influence operational strategy, lead major incident response, drive automation and modernization initiatives, and mentor engineers across a portfolio of 40+ mission-critical applications spanning AWS, OpenShift, Kafka, IBM MQ, and distributed systems.

You will partner across globally distributed teams to improve platform stability, reduce operational risk, and drive continuous improvements that strengthen the resilience of DTCC’s critical financial market infrastructure.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

Reliability & Incident Leadership

• Lead resolution of critical production incidents and complex platform issues.
• Serve as the senior technical escalation point and drive root cause analysis (RCA) and long-term corrective actions.
• Provide leadership visibility into service health, risks, and incident mitigation strategies.

Operational Excellence & Resiliency

• Drive application availability, performance, and operational readiness across mission-critical platforms.
• Lead disaster recovery (DR), business continuity, and resiliency testing initiatives.
• Establish operational standards, monitoring strategies, and service-level compliance.

Automation & Continuous Improvement

• Champion automation, observability, and self-healing capabilities to improve reliability and reduce operational effort.
• Drive continuous improvement across incident management, monitoring, and platform operations.
• Partner with engineering teams to modernize support practices and operational tooling.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

• Mentor engineers and promote best practices in reliability, troubleshooting, and operational excellence.
• Partner with Development, Infrastructure, Cloud, Security, Product, and Vendor teams to improve service reliability and customer experience.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives that strengthen platform stability, scalability, and operational maturity.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with operational controls, ITIL processes, audit requirements, and regulatory standards.
• Proactively identify operational risks and drive mitigation strategies.
• Maintain operational documentation, recovery procedures, and knowledge assets to support audit readiness and business resiliency.

• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent practical experience
• 8-10 years of experience supporting enterprise applications in complex production environments, * Java/J2EE
• Oracle, SQL, DB2
• IBM MQ, Kafka
• Splunk, Grafana, AutoSys
• ServiceNow and ITIL
• Linux/Unix
• AWS, * Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, including reliability, observability, automation, and incident prevention.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale, distributed applications in production environments.
• Experience with cloud technologies and modern infrastructure platforms.
• Understanding of messaging systems, middleware, and integration technologies (IBM MQ, Kafka, IIB, or similar).
• Exposure to container platforms such as OpenShift, Kubernetes, or Docker.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred skills

• Kafka and event-driven architecture experience.
• Mainframe exposure (JCL, batch processing, job monitoring).
• Python or other scripting languages.
• Financial Services, Capital Markets, or Securities Processing experience.
• AI-driven automation or operational efficiency initiatives.
• Enterprise integration and distributed processing platforms.

• 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).

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.

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., 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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About the Team

Serves as a dedicated technology resource for advancing DTCC’s business opportunities and providing industry thought leadership for leveraging new technology. The goal of this new department is to partner internally with IT, our business and regulatory divisions and externally with clients, regulators, and fintech vendors, to help build new platforms and business models to advance DTCC’s mission to support the financial markets.