Principal Software Engineer

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).

The Impact you will have in this role:

The Development family is responsible for crafting, designing, deploying, and supporting applications, programs, and software solutions. May include research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities related to software products used internally or externally on product platforms supported by the firm. The software development process requires in-depth subject matter expertise in existing and emerging development methodologies, tools, and programming languages. Software Developers work closely with business partners and / or external clients in defining requirements and implementing solutions

The Software Engineering role specializes in planning, detailing technical requirements, crafting, developing, and testing all software systems and applications for the firm. Works closely with architects, product managers, project management, and end-users in the development and improvement of existing software systems and applications, proposing and recommending solutions that tackle sophisticated business problems.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Act as a technical expert on one or more applications applied by DTCC.
• Work with the Business System Analyst to ensure designs satisfy functional requirements.
• Partner with Infrastructure to identify and deploy efficient hosting environments.
• Tune application performance to eliminate and reduce issues.
• Research and evaluate technical solutions consistent with DTCC technology standards.
• Align risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately.
• Apply different software development methodologies dependent on project needs.
• Contribute expertise to the design of components or individual programs and participate in the construction and functional testing.
• Support development teams, testing, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Build applications and construct unit test cases that ensure compliance with functional and non-functional requirements.
• Work with peers to mature ways of working, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
• Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately.

Talents Needed for Success:

• 12+ years of experience with SQL, PLSQL 
• Design, develop, and maintain databases, including database structures, tables, views, and functions.
• Write complex SQL queries to retrieve, manipulate, and analyze data.
• Experience with RDBMS systems like snowflake, Oracle, and other cloud DBs.
• AWS Cloud Experience
• Solid Experience in Snowflake.
• Experience of Unix/Linux OS including shell scripting, perl and python will be a plus.
• Solid understanding of Agile, CI/CD, Jenkins, Dev/Ops practices and tools.
• Demonstrates strong analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Experienced in working with a geographically separated (onshore + offshore) team.

Nice to have skills:

• Highlights the encouraged benefits of new actions and strategies to help others overcome fears of change.
• Develops a culture where integrity and visibility are expected.
• Invests effort to individually mentor others.
• Builds collaborative teams across the organization.
• Communicates openly keeping everyone across the organization advised.

Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. we are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.