Job Description

Pay and Benefits: Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location 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 Lead 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 raise and resolve technical support incidents. Your Primary Responsibilities : Experience with using ITIL Change, Incident and Problem management processes. Resolve critical production issues by leading Major Incident calls, engaging proper teams, and driving root cause analysis. Troubleshoot and debug system component(s) to resolve technical issues in complex and highly regulated environments comprised of ground and cloud applications and services. Analyze proposed application design(s) and provide feedback on potential gaps or provide recommendations for optimization. Hands-on experience with Monitoring and Alerting processes in Distributed ,Cloud and Mainframe environments. Knowledge and understanding of cyber security best practices and general security concepts like password rotation, access restriction and malware detection. Contribute in Monthly Service Reviews (MSR) with Development partners to go over KPI metrics. Participate in Disaster Recovery / Loss of Region events (planned and unplanned) executing tasks and collecting evidence. Collaborate both within the team and across teams to resolve application issues and escalate as needed. Support audit requests in a timely fashion providing needed documentation and evidence. Plan and execute certificate creation/renewals as needed. Create, Modify and Monitor Dashboards to better catch potential issues and aide in observability. Strong ability to gather and analyze project requirements and translate them into technical specification(s). Deep understanding of all lifecycle components (code, test, deploy). Good verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills, communicating openly with team members and others. Champion a culture where honesty and transparency are expected. 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 Validate and submit responses to requests for information from ongoing audits Review and Execute 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 input into the design and development stages of applications Qualifications: 6+ years of related experience Bachelor's degree (preferred) or equivalent experience Talents Needed for Success: Technical Qualifications Primary (Distributed/Cloud): Hands on experience in Unix, Linux, Windows, SQL/PLSQL Familiarity working with relational databases (DB2, Oracle, Snowflake) Monitoring and Data Tools experience (Splunk, DynaTrace, Thousand Eyes, Grafana, Selenium,HiPam IBM Zolda) Cloud Technologies (AWS services (S3,EC2,Lambda,SQS,IAM roles), Azure, OpenShift, RDS Aurora, Postgress) Scheduling Tool experience (CA AutoSys, Control-M) Technical Qualifications Secondary (Mainframe): Mainframe troubleshooting and support skills (COBOL, JCL, DB2, DB2 Stored Procedures, CICS, SPUFI, File aid) Mainframe scheduling (Job abends, Predecessor/Successor) Mainframe development experience will be a added advantage Additional Qualifications Fosters a culture where honesty and transparency are expected. Stays current on changes in his/her 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.