Platform Engineer

Job Description

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 Systems Engineering family is responsible for the entire technical effort to evolve and verify solutions that satisfy client needs. The primary focus is centered on reducing risk and improving the efficiency, performance, stability, security, and quality of all systems and platforms. The Platform Hosting & Engineering role specializes in the development, implementation, and support of all distributed, mainframe, and network hosting services across the firm. Responsible for the installation, configuration, programming, and support of operating systems, complex networks, and distributed environments, deploying solutions to increase overall system reliability across the firm.


Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable AI/ML platforms using AWS services including SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock Agent Core, Amazon Q Developer and Kiro.
• Manage and optimize AWS EMR clusters for large-scale data processing, ensuring efficient resource utilization and high performance.
• Develop and maintain MLOps pipelines for model training, validation, and deployment.
  Implement Amazon Bedrock capabilities including Guardrails and Knowledge Bases to enable secure use of foundation models.
• Design and manage AI agent infrastructure using Bedrock Agent Core, including agent orchestration, memory, gateway, and runtime components for enterprise-scale deployments.
• Manage and maintain AWS Athena infrastructure, ensuring availability, performance, and proper configuration for analytical workloads.
• Implement cloud automation and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, with CI/CD pipelines managed through Jenkins.
• Work with AWS services including VPC, Subnets, EC2, IAM, Security Groups, ECS, S3, ELB, Auto Scaling, Lambda, AWS Glue, Athena, EMR, and ADX to support platform and infrastructure operations.
• Configure SageMaker environments with network and security rules including VPC peering, endpoint creation, and security group configurations
  Perform system upgrades and maintenance for distributed data platforms across multiple AWS accounts.
• Implement centralized logging, monitoring, and compliance reporting for AI/ML systems
  Collaborate with governance and risk teams to ensure compliance and approval of AI/ML models.
• Enable secure data access and governance across accounts using data-sharing and access control mechanisms.
• Deploy machine learning models using AWS SageMaker, enabling predictive analytics and data-driven decision-making.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform for SageMaker resources (KMS keys, S3 buckets, etc.).
• Configure cross-account integrations for Snowflake across all environments
  Create customized CloudWatch alarms and configure log ingestion pipelines (CloudWatch to Splunk).

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 4 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• Fosters a culture where honesty and transparency are expected.
• Stays current on changes in his/her own specialist area and seeks out learning opportunities to ensure knowledge is up-to-date.
• Collaborates well within and across teams.
• Communicates openly with team members and others.
• Resolves disagreements between colleagues effectively, minimizing the impact on the wider team.

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.

About Us

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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About the Team

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.