Lead Application Support Engineer

Job Info

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 Development family is responsible for creating, 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 Application Support Engineering role specializes in maintaining and providing technical support for all applications that are beyond the development stage and are running in the daily operations of the firm. Works closely with development teams, infrastructure partners, and internal / external clients to advance and resolve technical support incidents.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Verify analysis performed by team members and implement changes required to prevent reoccurrence of incidents
• Resolve Critical application alerts in a timely fashion including production defects, providing business impact and analysis to teams, handling minor enhancements as needed
• Review and update knowledge articles and runbooks with application development teams to confirm information is up to date
• Collaborate with internal teams to provide answers to application issues and advance to as needed
• Validate and submit responses to requests for information from ongoing audits
• Review and Implement Disaster Recovery scripts during planned and unplanned outages, providing BCM evidence as needed
• Identify and implement automation opportunities to reduce manual effort associated with application monitoring
• Partner with development teams to provide feedback into the design and development stages of applications
• Complete the pre-production/production application code deployment plans and end to end vendor application upgrade process (e.g. SNOW, SF, etc)
• Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; advances appropriately

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• OS - Mainframe/Linux/Unix/Windows
• Database needed- Oracle/DB2/MySQL
• Tools - Scheduling (CA/CA7 and Autosys), ITIL/ ServiceNow/Jira/Salesforce/Splunk/Grafana
• Languages- Cobol/JCL/Java/C+/Python
• Fosters a culture where honesty and transparency are expected.
• Knows the latest on changes in their own specialist area and seeks out learning opportunities to ensure knowledge is up-to-date.
• Invests effort to individually coach others.
• Builds collaborative teams across the organization.
• Communicates openly keeping everyone across the organization informed.

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.