Director UI UX Engineering

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're 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
• Pension
• 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 of your choosing)

The impact you will have in this role:

The User Experience Director will lead the UX CoE team and specialize in planning, designing, developing, and testing user interfaces and user experience components for all products, platforms, solutions, and tools for the firm. Provides user experience design, usability, evaluation, and testing expertise to product development teams, including the analysis, investigation, and selection of applications and methods to improve user interaction through look, feel, process flow and choice of adaptable elements. Performs technical review of proposed design and product changes for feasibility, integration with existing technical architectures and systems, and alignment with desired user experience and design standards.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead the UX CoE - an established and dedicated team of user experience designers and developers
• Lead needed technical processes and designs considering reliability, data integrity, maintainability, reuse, extensibility, usability and scalability
• Work with project teams to conduct extensive UX and design reviews sought at incorporating UCD principles into the application development lifecycle
• Ensure application meets the performance, privacy, and security requirements
• Verify test plans to ensure compliance with performance and security requirements
• Support business and technical presentations in relation to UX/UI designs and business solutions
• Help develop solutions that balance cost and delivery while meeting business requirements
• Implement technology-specific standard processes that are consistent with corporate standards
• Partner with multi-functional teams to ensure the success of product strategy and project results
• Manage the software development process
• Drive new technical and business process improvements
• Estimate total costs of modules/projects covering both hours and expense
• Research and evaluate specific technologies, and applications, and contributes to the solution design
• Construct application UI/UX architecture encompassing end-to-end designs
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures and supervising controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.
• Efficiently work on multiple projects

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

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree and / or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• Leadership and hands on interaction design experience, information architecture, UX strategy mostly in the Finance domain (10 years)
• Must have strong frontend design and development experience - Figma, Angular and React
• Experience in Web based UI development
• Experience with CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and similar UI frameworks (jQuery, React)
• Exposure to XML/XSD, JSON and similar data presentation components
• Familiarity with Microservices based architecture and distributed systems.
• Exposure in Java/J2EE Based Applications demonstrated ability with Hibernate, Spring, Spring MVC
• Experience with CI/CD technologies like GIT, Jenkins, Jacoco and Maven
• Experience with containers like OpenShift is a plus.
• Experience with Messaging, ETL or Reporting tools is a plus.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodology
• Proven experience as a Director or similar role
• Demonstrated experience managing and delivering sophisticated IT solutions on schedule and within budget
• Solid understanding of web development methodologies, tools, and standard processes
• Excellent leadership and people management skills, with the ability to empower and encourage multi-functional teams
• Strong business insight and ability to align technical objectives with strategic business goals
• Excellent communication and stakeholder leadership skills
• Ability to navigate and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

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

DTCC safeguards the financial markets and helps them run efficiently, in times of prosperity and crisis. We are uniquely positioned at the center of global trading activity, processing over 100 million financial transactions every day, pioneering industry-wide, post-trade solutions and maintaining multiple data and operating centers worldwide. From where we stand, we can anticipate the industry's needs and we're working to continually improve the world's most resilient, secure and efficient market infrastructure. Our employees are driven to deliver innovative technologies that improve efficiency, lower cost and bring stability and certainty to the post-trade lifecycle.

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

IT Architecture and Enterprise Services are responsible for enabling digital transformation of DTCC. The group manages complexity of the technology landscape within DTCC and enhances agility, robustness and security of the technology footprint. It does so by serving as the focal point for all technology architectural activities in the organization as well as engineering a portfolio of foundational technology assets to enable our digital transformation.