Who We Are

About Us

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

What We Offer

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:

A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work

Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education

Student Loan Repayment Assistance

Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely

Generous PTO and Parental leave

Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

Summary

OTSI is OCC’s technology strategy, research, and development team. The team focuses on architectural design, problem solving, and security using leading edge technologies to deliver solutions for the organization as part of the OCC Unified Technology Strategy.

As a Principal, Technology Engineer and senior member of the team, you will be responsible for collaborating with stakeholders, partner teams, and solutions architects to research and engineer available technologies as part of a comprehensive requirements-driven solution design. You will be developing technology engineering requirements and leading proof-of-concept and laboratory testing efforts using modern approaches to process and automation. You will build/deploy/document/manage Lab environments within On-Prem/Cloud Datacenters to be used for Proof-of-Concepts and rapid prototyping. In this engineering role, you will use your technology background to evaluate emerging technologies and help Leadership make informed decisions on changes to the OCC Technology Roadmap.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Key contributor to technology platform design, testing, and implementation process to introduce new technology and improve existing technology initiatives for hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure within OCC Data Centers.
• Define and implement testing and success criteria for platforms, products, and technologies to ensure alignment with business, security, and architecture objectives.
• Lead and participate in exploratory proof-of-concept engagements and technology stress testing to determine solution feasibility and stability.
• Collaborate with various partner teams across technology, security, and business to provide technical consultation as part of projects and daily business activities.
• Create technical knowledge and guideline documentation for new and existing technologies to assist partner teams with knowledge transfer for execution and operations.
• Develop and maintain scalable DevSecOps pipelines, including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and automated security scanning.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

No direct supervision, is expected to provide mentorship to members of the team.

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• Excellent oral and written communication.
• Ability to think strategically and map architectural decisions/recommendations to business needs
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with local and remote OCC employees, vendors, and consultants.
• Must possess critical OCC values, including (but not limited to) collaboration, credibility, trust, adaptability and commitment to do the right thing.
• Proven track record of collaborating cross-functionally and delivering impactful technical solutions.

Technical Skills:

• Experience developing CI/CD workflows using tools like Github Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps Pipelines, AWS CodePipeline, etc..
• Familiarity with GitOps driven deployment tooling with