Lead Database Engineer

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:

We are seeking a Lead Database Engineer to serve as the primary database architect and engineering lead for DTCC's new and innovative IT Balanced Scorecard-a first-of-its-kind solution that will be used by the CIO and her directs to run their IT organizations.
This role will be instrumental in designing and building the underlying Snowflake database that powers the scorecard, supporting data integrations in partnership with the CLAW team, DTCC's centralized data warehouse team.

You will also collaborate closely with Power BI developers to create a high-quality, easy-to-use, and analytically powerful IT Balanced Scorecard that becomes the authoritative source for Technology Governance metrics. This role will expand over time to support additional dashboards and analytics products across Technology Governance.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Serve as the lead database engineer responsible for the end-to-end design, development, performance tuning, and maintenance of the IT Balanced Scorecard Snowflake database.
• Partner closely with the CLAW team to understand, challenge, and refine their technical designs and data models to ensure accurate, high-quality, and scalable solutions.
• Collaborate with the Power BI development resource to design data models, optimize performance, and validate visualizations and DAX logic for the IT Balanced Scorecard.
• Expand database engineering support to broader Technology Governance dashboards and metrics programs.
• Apply Agile ways of working: participate in sprint ceremonies, maintain JIRA stories, estimate work, and deliver iterative value.
• Build, document, and implement comprehensive test plans, including data validation, reconciliation, and Power BI dashboard testing.
• Ensure strong data model documentation, reproducibility of pipelines, and alignment to enterprise governance standards.
• Develop SQL, data transformations, and schedule jobs using Talend and Autosys where required.
• Drive continuous improvement in data quality, data lineage, and reliability of metric reporting across Technology Governance.

Qualifications:

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

Talents Needed for Success:

• Advanced Excel and data visualization skills (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, or QuickSight).
• Power BI development and testing, including DAX and Power Query
• Experience with data platforms and Snowflake usage optimization
• Talend
• Autosys
• Proficiency in scripting or SQL for custom cost analytics and automation
• JIRA and Agile delivery experience
• Experience developing, validating, and reporting on metrics and KPIs
• Strong communication, leadership and facilitation skills
• Ability to collaborate with diverse technical and non-technical collaborators
• Thought leadership and the ability to challenge and influence upstream data designs (especially with centralized data teams such as CLAW)
• Strong problem-solving skills and analytical thinking
• Strategic and analytical problem solver with attention to detail
• Proactive mindset for continuous improvement and innovation

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.