Executive Director Platform Engineering

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.

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 Impact you will have in this role:

The Executive Director, Network Operations Engineering, is a senior leader in IT responsible for strategic direction, operational excellence, and security of DTCC’s network infrastructure within a highly regulated financial services environment. This role ensures the observability, availability, performance, and resilience of DTCC’s network.   The Executive Director will lead teams of network engineers responsible for core network services, Campus Operations, Network Tools and Automation.  This role is responsible for driving operational innovation and excellence while ensuring compliance with industry regulations, technology best practices and the highest level of security standards. This role will be instrumental in advancing our Zero Trust strategy, including micro-segmentation, identity-aware access, and posture-based policy enforcement across hybrid environments

Candidate must have experience with modern networking technologies, application stacks and loosely coupled architectures, strong leadership and collaboration skills and expertise in delivering large scale technology implementations.

Your Primary Responsibilities:
 

Strategic & Operational Leadership

• Develop and implement a forward-looking network operations strategy aligned with business goals and regulatory requirements.
• Lead in the migration from legacy infrastructure to modern, scalable, and secure network architectures (e.g., SD-WAN, cloud networking, zero-trust models) and drive operational adoption.
• Partner with client facing teams (internal and external) on SLAs and timely incident resolution.
• Establish and/or maintain consistent, efficient and effective processes and procedures that ensure predictable delivery of networking solutions.
• Ensure 24/7 operational support for critically important financial systems and trading platforms.

Risk, Compliance & Security

• Partner with cybersecurity, risk, and compliance teams to ensure network infrastructure meets FFIEC, FINRA, SEC, DORA and other regulatory standards.
• Implement robust controls, monitoring, and incident response protocols to mitigate operational and cyber risks.
• Foster a risk management culture through implementation and demonstration of processes and procedures which identify and mitigate risk.

Team Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of network professionals.
• Lead vendor relationships, contracts, and service-level agreements (SLAs) with telecom providers and technology partners.
• Run cross project and workstream coordination across vendors, teams, and oversight bodies.

Performance & Resilience

• Supervise network performance monitoring, conduct capacity planning, and develop disaster recovery strategies.
• Drive continuous improvement through automation, analytics, and proactive issue resolution.

Collaboration & Communication

• Serve as a “Change Agent” who brings a sense of urgency and can mobilize resources and implement initiatives on time.
• Serve as a key liaison between technology and business units, ensuring network strategies support evolving financial serv