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Position range in Dallas County $82k - $139k Per Year Lead Systems Engineer

THE DEPOSITORY TRUST & CLEARING CORP

Occupation:

Software Developers

Location:

Coppell, TX - 75019

Job Type:

Regular, Full Time (30 Hours or More), Permanent Employment, Day Shift

Posted:

09/24/2026

Positions available: 1

Source:

WorkInTexas

Web Site:

WorkInTexas

Onsite /

Remote:

Onsite and Remote options

Updated:

09/28/2026

Expires:

11/02/2026

Job #: 17072815

Job Requirements and Properties

Help for Job Requirements and Properties. Hybrid Education

Bachelor's Degree Experience

60 Month(s) Schedule

Full Time Job Type

Regular Duration

Permanent Employment Hours

40 Hours Per Week Shift

Day Shift Help for .

T THE DEPOSITORY TRUST & CLEARING CORPORATION SEEKS

TITLE:

Lead Systems Engineer

JOB DUTIES

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. Lead Systems Engineer (Distributed Middleware Services) is a critical role responsible for ensuring the stability, security, and long-term evolution of enterprise middleware platforms across

Linux environments. This includes Tomcat, WebSphere Application Server (WAS), Liberty, IBM MQ, Kafka, and IBM BPM, supporting mission-critical business applications and integration layers. The role serves as a technical authority for driving standardization, high availability, disaster recovery, and secure configurations while enabling seamless integration with internal systems and third-party applications. By establishing platform best practices, managing access controls and security configurations, and ensuring robust load balancing and resiliency, the role directly improves system reliability, reduces operational risk, and ensures consistent service delivery across Dev, QA, PSE, and Production environments. In addition, this role drives operational excellence through advanced troubleshooting, performance optimization, and lifecycle management of middleware platforms. The engineer leads patching, vulnerability remediation, and vendor coordination efforts while working within ITIL-based incident, problem, and change management frameworks to maintain system health and uptime. By leveraging monitoring tools, automating repetitive tasks, and supporting 24/7 production operations, the role ensures proactive issue resolution and continuous service improvement. Acting as a key technical leader, the position also supports onboarding of new applications, and contributes to building scalable, secure, and efficient middleware ecosystems aligned with enterprise standards and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities:

Provide support for various middleware technologies managed by the team, with a primary focus on Tomcat, WebSphere Business Process Manager, WebSphere Application Server, IBM MQ, Liberty, and Kafka.

Responsible for identifying and implementing efficiencies and improvements to standard processes and procedures, including automation through scripting or programming.

Able to work both independently and as part of a team, with minimal supervision.

Mitigate risk by following established procedures, monitoring controls, identifying key errors, and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

Lead or contribute to automation and scripting initiatives using tools such as Ansible, PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar orchestration tools to enhance operational efficiency and reduce manual work.

Serve as a key responder for critical and major production incidents, handling end-to-end restoration, root cause analysis, remediation, and post-incident reviews.

Ensure production environments are available, perform well, are resilient, and recoverable through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning.

Support new applications deployed across Dev, QA, PSE, and PROD environments.

Utilize monitoring and third-party tools to maintain system health and uptime.

Install, update, and coordinate patches for security vulnerabilities and bug fixes for WAS, IHS, Tomcat, MQ, and Kafka.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or STEM related field and 6 years of experience in the job or related position.

Prior experience to include:

5 years experience in supporting real-time production environments.

Debugging and troubleshooting.

Middleware technologies including IBM MQ, WebSphere, Tomcat, Liberty & Kafka.

ITIL processes, including Incident, Problem, Change, and Release Management, with demonstrated operational discipline.

Leadership in driving and resolving Critical and Major production incidents, coordinating across infrastructure, application, and security teams.

Working with industry principles and technologies including Amazon cloud, Unix/Linux, virtualization, etc.

Monitoring and ticketing tools SNOW and SPLUNK etc.

LOCATION

Coppell, TX. Telecommuting may be permitted a few days a week. When not telecommuting, must report to DTCCs office in Coppell, TX.

SALARY:

$160,285.00 per year.

APPLY:

Please e-mail resume with cover letter to DTCC at TalentAcquisition@dtcc.com, reference Job Code 10470844/ Lead Systems Engineer/ Coppell, TX