Principal, Technology Engineering

About Us

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

What We Offer

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:

A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work

Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education

Student Loan Repayment Assistance

Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely

Generous PTO and Parental leave

Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

OTSI is OCC's technology strategy, research, and development team. The team focuses on architectural design, problem solving, and security using leading edge technologies to deliver solutions for the organization as part of the OCC Unified Technology Strategy.

As a Principal, Technology Engineer and senior member of the team, you will be responsible for collaborating with stakeholders, partner teams, and solutions architects to research and engineer available technologies as part of a comprehensive requirements-driven solution design. You will be developing technology engineering requirements and leading proof-of-concept and laboratory testing efforts using modern approaches to process and automation. You will build/deploy/document/manage Lab environments within On-Prem/Cloud Datacenters to be used for Proof-of-Concepts and rapid prototyping. In this engineering role, you will use your technology background to evaluate emerging technologies and help Leadership make informed decisions on changes to the OCC Technology Roadmap.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Key contributor to technology platform design, testing, and implementation process to introduce new technology and improve existing technology initiatives for hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure within OCC Data Centers.
• Define and implement testing and success criteria for platforms, products, and technologies to ensure alignment with business, security, and architecture objectives.
• Lead and participate in exploratory proof-of-concept engagements and technology stress testing to determine solution feasibility and stability.
• Collaborate with various partner teams across technology, security, and business to provide technical consultation as part of projects and daily business activities.
• Create technical knowledge and guideline documentation for new and existing technologies to assist partner teams with knowledge transfer for execution and operations.
• Develop and maintain scalable DevSecOps pipelines, including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and automated security scanning.

No direct supervision, is expected to provide mentorship to members of the team.

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• Excellent oral and written communication.
• Ability to think strategically and map architectural decisions/recommendations to business needs
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with local and remote OCC employees, vendors, and consultants.
• Must possess critical OCC values, including (but not limited to) collaboration, credibility, trust, adaptability and commitment to do the right thing.
• Proven track record of collaborating cross-functionally and delivering impactful technical solutions.

Technical Skills:

• Experience developing CI/CD workflows using tools like Github Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps Pipelines, AWS CodePipeline, etc..
• Familiarity with GitOps driven deployment tooling with solutions using tools like ArgoCD, FluxCD, etc..
• In-depth knowledge of Observability and enterprise-level monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions through tools like Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Grafana, etc..
• Experience with Cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes, ECS or Azure Container instances.
• Understanding of enterprise-grade networking technologies, including routers, switches, firewalls and load balancers.
• Knowledge of network security protocols and certificate-based authentication
• Deeply experienced with infrastructure as code, like Terraform, OpenTofu or Pulumi
• Experience working with authentication protocols and suites ( LDAP, Kerberos, SAML, etc.), multi-factor authentication and password-less platforms and technologies, role-based access control and entitlements, etc.
• Solid understanding of common database technologies on-premises and in the cloud (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, MSSQL, etc..), data field hardening and encryption, access controls, high-availability, etc.
• Understanding of governance frameworks and standards such as COBIT, NIST CSF are a plus.
• Experience with regulatory frameworks such as Reg SCI and CFTC 99.18 are a plus.

• [Preferred] 10+ years of progressive experience as a senior/lead engineer in a DevOps, SRE or infrastructure-focused role
• [Required] Deep expertise in cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.) and infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform, Ansible, etc.
• [Required] Strong background in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, with experience integration security testing and compliance
• [Required] Proficient in scripting and programing languages such as Python, Bash or Go
• [Required] Understanding of traditional on-premises data center technologies and hybrid cloud architecture
• [Preferred] Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field

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About Us

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

Benefits

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:

• A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work
• Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance
• Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely
• Generous PTO and Parental leave
• 401k Employer Match
• Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

Visit https://www.theocc.com/careers/thriving-together for more information.

Compensation

• The salary range listed for any given position is exclusive of fringe benefits and potential bonuses. If hired at OCC, your final base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as skills, experience and/or education.
• In addition, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer.
• We typically do not hire at the maximum of the range in order to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a substantial benefits package as noted on www.theocc.com/careers
• All employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are based on various factors, including, but not limited to, company and individual performance and are not guaranteed.

Salary Range

Incentive Range

This position is eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award, for which the target range is listed above (see Incentive Range). The amount of such award, if any, will be based on various factors, including without limitation, both individual and company performance.

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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer