Associate Director Vault Engineering; Secrets Management

Associate Director Vault Engineering (Secrets Management)

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• Job Identification 212415
• Job Category Information Technology
• Posting Date 01/12/2026, 07:38 PM
• Locations 1333 Crestside Drive, Coppell, TX, 75019, US 570 Washington Blvd, Jersey City, NJ, 07310, US 18301 Bermuda Green Dr, Tampa, FL, 33647, US
• Job Schedule Full time
• Salary Range Associate Director-95,-USD
• FLSA Status Exempt

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
• 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:

Being a member of CISO team, The Associate Director, Vault Engineering leads the strategy, delivery, and operations of enterprise secret management across on premises and multi cloud environments. This role owns the Hashi Corp Vault platform (or equivalent), drives automation and governance at scale, and partners with Security, Cloud, Application and Dev Ops to enable secure‑by‑default engineering in a regulated setting.

The leader will build and mentor a high performing team, establish service objectives, and ensure the platform meets availability, resilience, and compliance expectations.

Your

Primary Responsibilities:

• Own platform strategy and roadmap
  for enterprise secrets management (Vault or equivalent), including multi‑region architecture,
  HA/DR
  , performance replication, and lifecycle management.
• Establish SLOs/SLA
  for availability, latency, and reliability; implement observability, capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost controls for the service.
• Integrate secrets into SDLC and CI/CD
  (Git Lab/Jenkins/Actions) and IaC (Terraform), standardizing
  policy‑as‑code
  , access controls, and automated
  secret/cert rotation
  across apps and pipelines.
• Partner with Security Architecture, Cloud Platform, and Dev Ops
  to enforce
  IAM protocols
  , zero‑trust patterns, and strong
  RBAC
  aligned to regulatory requirements (e.g., SOX, PCI, NIST).
• Lead major incidents
  impacting the platform; drive root‑cause analyses, corrective actions, and post‑mortems; report resilience and risk metrics in service reviews.
• Governance & audit readiness
  : define controls, evidence collection, and runbooks; ensure compliance with data protection, key management, and retention policies.
• Team leadership & talent development
  : hire, onboard, mentor, and set performance goals; foster a culture of engineering excellence, reliability, and customer centricity.
• Stakeholder management & communication
  : communicate roadmaps, changes, and service health to senior partners; manage vendor relationships and licensing/renewals.
• Continuous improvement
  : evaluate new capabilities (e.g., name spaces, HSM, transit encryption, dynamic secrets) and lead platform upgrades with minimal business disruption.

Core Technical Scope (Platform Expertise)

• Automation & integration
  :
  Terraform modules, CI/CD integration, sentinel/policy‑as‑code, API usage; scripting with
  Python, Groovy, Java
  for provisioning,…