Application Support Engineering Associate

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).

Sunday-Thursday Shift

The Impact you will have in this role:

Being a member of the Information Technology group you will deliver secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets.

The Application Support Engineer role will be responsible for providing technical support of all the application within the EAS RDS service tower. The role will be executing all aspects of the operating procedures/runbooks within a predefined shift pattern. This role is expected to work closely with the required development teams, our Enterprise Infrastructure partners and our internal business clients to resolve and escalate technical support incidents where necessary.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Support DTCC applications by providing monitoring, application, and system support for DTCC‘s production application services client facing environments.
• Provide 24x7 support for event monitoring, incident triage and critical issue
• Provide support to all jurisdictions on a shift basis, handling any activity for any region within the local time zone coverage
• Implementation of efficiencies and improvements to standard processes and procedures such as automation through scripting, programming, etc.
• Contribute to projects by accomplishing task work and ensuring permit-to-operate (PTO) guidelines are met.
• Support for organizational change and execution of DTCC’s production application services
• Client support team engagement to assist with application related incidents, client testing and integrations
• Support disaster recovery test planning and execution - application environment review, shutdown, start, verification, troubleshooting
• Support management of resources that are involved in maintaining the host operating system on UNIX, Vmware and Windows servers as well as software subsystems such as databases, web server software, LDAP, and security subsystems.

• Support risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; advance appropriately

  **NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 2 years of related experience

• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• Minimum 2 years of experience in application production support and team management
• Knowledge of system administration – system configuration management, resource sharing, operating system fundamentals
• Knowledge on application support – basic programming skills, log reading and analysis
• Experience in managing multiple platforms (Operating systems – UNIX, Linux, Windows, VMWare)
• Understanding of different technologies and applications:
  • Networking and Storage technologies – TCP/IP, EMC, NetApp, HP, Cisco
  • Database – Snowflake, Oracle
  • Middleware technologies – Websphere Application Server, Websphere MQ, Tomcat JRE
  • Clustering technologies – Veritas, Red Hat, and VMWare vSphere
  • Cloud Computing – AWS, CloudWatch, EC2, S3, Route 53, Azure
  • Programming and scripting – ability to establish automation, write scripts (Perl, Python, Chef, Puppet, shell) or implement system solutions
• General knowledge of industry principles and new technologies like cloud computing, virtualization, etc.

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. 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.

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 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.