DTCC Digital Assets
DTCC Digital Assets is at the forefront of driving institutional adoption of digital assets technology with a steadfast commitment to innovation anchored in security and stability. As the financial services industrys trusted technology partner, we pride ourselves on empowering a globally interconnected and efficient ecosystem.Our mission is to provide secure and compliant infrastructure for digital assets, enabling financial institutions to unlock the full potential of blockchain technology
We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Principal Data Engineer to join our dynamic team. As a Principal Data Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing and building and growing our greenfield Snowflake Data Platform for Digital Assets.
The Impact you will have in this role:
Principal Data Engineer role is substantial in shaping the data infrastructure and strategic direction of the Digital Assets department. By leading the design and implementation of a greenfield Snowflake Data Platform, this role directly influences the organizations ability to manage and leverage data for operational efficiency and risk assessment. The Associate Director ensures that data systems are scalable, secure, and aligned with business goals, enabling faster decision-making and innovation. Their leadership in managing cross-functional teams and collaborating with stakeholders ensures that technical solutions are not only robust but also responsive to evolving business needs.
Beyond technical execution, this role plays a pivotal part in fostering a culture of accountability, growth, and inclusion. By mentoring team members, driving employee engagement, and promoting best practices in agile development and data governance, the Associate Director helps build a resilient and high-performing engineering organization. Their contributions to incident management, platform adoption, and continuous improvement efforts ensure that the data platform remains reliable and future-ready, positioning the company to stay competitive in the rapidly evolving digital assets landscape.
Role description:
- Lead engineering and development focused projects from start to finish with minimal supervision.
- Provide technical and operational support for our customer base as well as other technical areas within the company.
- Review and supervise the system design and architecture.
- Interact with stakeholder to understand requirements and provide solutions.
- Risk management functions such as reconciliation of vulnerabilities, security baselines as well as other risk and audit related objectives.
- Refine and prioritize the backlog for the team in partnership with product management.
- Groom and guide the team of employees and consultants.
- Responsible for employee engagement, growth and appraisals.
- Participate in user training to increase awareness of the platform.
- Ensure incident, problem and change tickets are addressed in a timely fashion, as well as escalating technical and managerial issues.
- Ensure quality and consistency of data from source systems and align with data product managers on facilitating resolution of these issues in a consistent manner.
- Follow DTCCs ITIL process for incident, change and problem resolution
Talents Needed for Success
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering (any) or related field
- 8 years of experience in the job or related position.
Prior experience to include:
- 5 years of experience in managing data warehouses in a production environment. This includes all phases of lifecycle management: planning, design, deployment, upkeep, and retirement.
- 5 years leading development teams from with mix of onshore and offshore members.
- Experience designing and architecting data warehousing applications.
- Warehousing concepts involving fact and dimensions.
- Star/snowflake schemas and data integration methods and tools.
- Deep understanding of the Snowflake platform.
- Designing data pipelines.
- SQL and relational databases.
- Development in agile scrum teams.
- Development following CI/CD processes.
- Demonstrable experience with data streaming technologies like Kafka for data ingestion.
- Knowledge of Blockchain technologies, Smart Contracts and Financial Services a plus.
- Designing low latency data platforms a plus.
- Knowledge of Data Governance principles a plus.
- Optimize/Tune source streams, queries, and Power BI (or equivalent) Dashboards
Leadership competencies
Champion Inclusion
- Embrace individual difference and create an environment of support, belonging and trust.Communicate Clearly
- Listen to understand. Ask questions for clarity and deliver messages with purpose.Cultivate Relationships
show care and compassion for others and authentically build networks across functions.Instill Ownership
Ensure accountability, manage execution, and mitigate risk to deliver results.Inspire Growth
Develop yourself and others through coaching, feedback, and mentorship to meet carer goals.Propel Change
Think critically, respectfully challenge, and create innovative ways to drive growth.
