Associate Director Vault Engineering (Secrets Management)

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:

Being a member of CISO team, The Associate Director, Vault Engineering leads the strategy, delivery, and operations of enterprise secret management across on premises and multi cloud environments. This role owns the HashiCorp Vault platform (or equivalent), drives automation and governance at scale, and partners with Security, Cloud, Application and DevOps to enable secure-by-default engineering in a regulated setting. The leader will build and mentor a high performing team, establish service objectives, and ensure the platform meets availability, resilience, and compliance expectations.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Own platform strategy and roadmap for enterprise secrets management (Vault or equivalent), including multi-region architecture, HA/DR, performance replication, and lifecycle management.
• Establish SLOs/SLA for availability, latency, and reliability; implement observability, capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost controls for the service.
• Integrate secrets into SDLC and CI/CD (GitLab/Jenkins/Actions) and IaC (Terraform), standardizing policy-as-code, access controls, and automated secret/cert rotation across apps and pipelines.
• Partner with Security Architecture, Cloud Platform, and DevOps to enforce IAM protocols, zero-trust patterns, and strong RBAC aligned to regulatory requirements (e.g., SOX, PCI, NIST).
• Lead major incidents impacting the platform; drive root-cause analyses, corrective actions, and post-mortems; report resilience and risk metrics in service reviews.
• Governance & audit readiness: define controls, evidence collection, and runbooks; ensure compliance with data protection, key management, and retention policies.
• Team leadership & talent development: hire, onboard, mentor, and set performance goals; foster a culture of engineering excellence, reliability, and customer centricity.
• Stakeholder management & communication: communicate roadmaps, changes, and service health to senior partners; manage vendor relationships and licensing/renewals.
• Continuous improvement: evaluate new capabilities (e.g., namespaces, HSM, transit encryption, dynamic secrets) and lead platform upgrades with minimal business disruption.

Core Technical Scope (Platform Expertise)

• Vault platform: policy design, auth methods (LDAP/Kubernetes/AWS IAM), secret engines (KV, PKI, LDAP, Database), seal/unseal, performance & disaster recovery replication, multi-cluster patterns.
• Automation & integration: Terraform modules, CI/CD integration, sentinel/policy-as-code, API usage; scripting with Python, Groovy, Java for provisioning, rotation, and audits.
• Cloud & containers: AWS (preferred) plus Azure/Google Cloud Platform familiarity; Kubernetes/OpenShift fundamentals; ingress/sidecar patterns for secret injection; service mesh integrations where applicable.
• Observability & SRE: supervising (PrometheGrafana/Splunk), alerting, capacity and scalability planning; MTTR/MTTD improvement.

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

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred and/or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• 8+ years in infrastructure/platform/security engineering; 3+ years leading engineers or SREs in production environments.
• Proven ownership of Vault (or comparable secret management platform) at enterprise scale across on-prem and cloud.
• Strong experience with CI/CD, IaC (Terraform), and automation using Python, Groovy, or Java.
• Deep knowledge of AWS and familiarity with Azure/Google Cloud Platform; Kubernetes operations and secure workload patterns.
• Demonstrated experience in regulated industries (finance preferred): controls definition, audit evidence, and compliance alignment.
• Incident management leadership; ability to run major incidents and drive post-incident improvements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications: HashiCorp Vault, Cloud (AWS/Google/Azure) Certification, CKA/CKAD, CISSP (or equivalent).
• PKI, encryption, certificate lifecycle (ACME/CA), HSM integration, and key management practices.
• Familiarity with enterprise risk/control frameworks.

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

Enterprise Product & Platform Engineering transforms the way we deliver infrastructure to our business clients. A key construct of EP&PE will be the evolution of the IT Product Manager, who will partner with the Engineering organization, the Business Aligned Service Delivery organization, the DevSecOps organization as well as our operational support teams to ensure that this organization provides high quality, commercially attractive and timely solutions to support our business strategy.