Director Data Architecture

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 successful candidate will play a strategic role in shaping DTCC's Data
Strategy and guide the organization in implementing it. They will develop the
foundational standards, architectures, guidance, and controls for enterprise
data capabilities to implement and monitor their implementation across the
enterprise. They will develop data and semantic models to ensure our data is fit
for purpose in transactional, analytical systems and by AI models and Agents. 

 Qualifications:

* Minimum of 10 years of related experience
* Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

Technical Skills

* The candidate must be familiar with Enterprise data architecture frameworks -
Applies TOGAF, Zachman, or DAMA-DMBOK to design enterprise-wide data
architectures. Produces architecture views (conceptual, logical, physical,
operational) aligned to business capability models.
* Experience producing Reference architectures - Authors reusable reference
architectures and blueprints for common patterns (e.g., regulatory reporting,
real-time risk, MDM hub). Ensures consistency across solution teams.
* Architecture documentation & ADRs - Produces clear, maintainable architecture
documentation including Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), sequence
diagrams, component diagrams, and system context diagrams.
* Experience with data integration architecture - Designs scalable integration
patterns including batch ETL/ELT, Change Data Capture (CDC), event streaming,
and API-led connectivity. Understands idempotency requirements in financial
reconciliation workflows.
* Experience with data mesh & domain-driven design - Applies domain-driven
design (DDD) and data mesh principles — bounded contexts, domain ownership,
data-as-a-product — to decompose monolithic data platforms without
sacrificing enterprise consistency.
* Experience with cloud data warehouses - Hands-on experience with Snowflake,
Databricks (Lakehouse), Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse, or AWS Redshift.
Understands platform-specific optimization levers (clustering, partitioning,
materialization).
* Experience with data lakehouse architecture - Designs medallion
(bronze/silver/gold) architectures. Understands Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg,
and Apache Hudi for ACID transactions, schema evolution, and time-travel on
object storage.
* Familiar with the tools in the modern data stack 
* Subject matter expertise with Financial data domains - Deep knowledge of core
FS data domains: general ledger, trade & position, risk, payments,
customer/KYC, and reference data (instruments, counterparties, currencies).
* Familiar with data governance principles - Champions data ownership,
stewardship, and policy enforcement. Familiar with DAMA-DMBOK, enterprise
glossary management, and cross-domain data standards governance.
* Experience with semantic layer & data product design - Designs reusable,
business-aligned semantic layers (metrics layers, logical data products) that
decouple business logic from physical storage. Ensures consistent KPI
definitions across the enterprise.

Leadership Skills:

* Technical vision & architecture direction - Sets the long-term data modeling
and architecture strategy aligned to business and regulatory roadmaps.
Establishes guardrails and patterns that scale across the organization.
* Executive & board-level communication - Translates complex data architecture
and modeling concepts into clear business impact narratives for C-suite, risk
committees, and regulators. No jargon, full accountability.
* Cross-functional collaboration - Works effectively with business analysts,
software engineers, risk, finance, compliance, and product teams to align on
data definitions, integration contracts, and model fitness for purpose.
* Technology vendor evaluation & negotiation - Evaluates vendor platforms
against enterprise requirements using structured scoring. Leads
proof-of-concept exercises and negotiates commercial terms for data platform
and tooling contracts.
* Mentoring & technical coaching - Develops junior and mid-level team members
through pair work, structured feedback, and stretch assignments. Builds team
capability and independence rather than individual dependency on key staff.
* Familiar with agile / scrum delivery - Runs or participates effectively in
agile ceremonies. Breaks down complex data modeling and architecture
initiatives into sprint-sized deliverables with clear acceptance criteria and
definition of done.
* Architecture governance & technology standards - Maintains the enterprise
architecture standards register, technology radar, and approved patterns
catalog. Manages exceptions process and ensures standards keep pace with
platform evolution.
 

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.

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
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people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and
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leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career
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at a company that’s truly one of a kind.

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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.