Principal Software Engineer - Enterprise Integration & Modernization

The MCD organization delivers the foundational platforms that power client onboarding, connectivity, entitlements, and access management across DTCC’s critical services. Supporting thousands of client interactions daily, MCD enables secure, resilient, and scalable connectivity through APIs, Kafka, MQ, SFTP, and modern integration technologies.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will serve as a hands-on technical leader driving the modernization of enterprise platforms and client integration capabilities. You will help transform legacy architectures into cloud-native, event-driven solutions while shaping engineering standards, influencing technical strategy, and delivering highly resilient systems that support DTCC’s long-term technology vision.

This is an opportunity to make a significant impact by advancing platform scalability, operational excellence, developer productivity, and client experience across mission-critical services.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable, cloud-native applications using Java, Spring Boot, and microservices architecture.
• Drive enterprise modernization initiatives by decomposing legacy applications, reducing database-centric business logic, and transitioning to distributed cloud-based solutions.
• Design and implement large-scale event-driven architectures leveraging Apache Kafka and enterprise messaging technologies.
• Build and support high-performance REST and SOAP APIs that enable secure and reliable client connectivity.
• Design, develop, and deploy solutions utilizing AWS services including EC2, S3, SQS, IAM, and related cloud-native capabilities.
• Define architecture, engineering standards, and modernization roadmaps across multiple initiatives and teams.
• Lead technical design reviews, architectural governance, and solution evaluations to ensure scalability, resiliency, and maintainability.
• Improve system performance, reliability, security, observability, and operational excellence across distributed platforms.
• Champion engineering best practices including Test-Driven Development (TDD), automated testing, code quality, and CI/CD automation.
• Optimize data access, processing efficiency, and integration patterns across PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and distributed systems.
• Partner closely with Product, Architecture, Platform Engineering, and DevOps teams to deliver business-critical capabilities.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and implement sustainable solutions that reduce operational risk.
• Identify and address technical debt while driving continuous improvement across the technology ecosystem.
• Mentor engineers and elevate software craftsmanship, engineering excellence, and technical leadership throughout the organization.

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with demonstrated success leading enterprise-scale application development, architecture, and modernization initiatives.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems in complex enterprise environments.
• Experience leading modernization efforts involving legacy, monolithic, or database-centric platforms.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture, microservices design patterns, and modern software engineering principles.
• Experience operating in highly regulated, mission-critical, or large-scale enterprise environments.

Talent Needed for Success

• Expert-level proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, and modern object-oriented software development.
• Deep experience designing, building, and operating microservices-based distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on experience developing cloud-native applications on AWS.
• Expertise implementing event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka.
• Experience with Redis for caching, performance optimization, and high-throughput processing.
• Strong understanding of APIs, system integration, scalability, resiliency, security, and performance engineering.
• Experience with asynchronous processing, distributed messaging, and real-time integration patterns.
• Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment practices.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, data-intensive applications, and enterprise data processing.
• Experience with observability and monitoring practices across complex distributed systems.

Preferred

• Experience with Angular or other modern front-end frameworks.
• Experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, or container-based platforms.
• Experience modernizing mainframe or legacy enterprise applications.
• Financial services, fintech, capital markets, or other highly regulated industry experience.
• Exposure to AI-assisted software development tools and engineering productivity platforms.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Demonstrated ability to influence technical strategy and architectural direction across multiple teams and initiatives.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with engineers, architects, product leaders, and executive stakeholders.
• Proven success mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, drive alignment, and lead complex technology transformation efforts.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to balance innovation, delivery, quality, and risk.
• Experience building consensus, managing competing priorities, and driving execution across cross-functional organizations.

• 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).

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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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.