What are the responsibilities and job description for the Capacity Assessment Associate Director position at DTCC Candidate Experience Site?
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.
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
- Pension / Retirement benefits
- 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:
- Ensure the successful daily processing / reporting of 30 different MICS units split by LPAR and work type
- Examples: SMF/RMF component, CICS, DB2, MQ, mainframe web logs
- Apply MICS maintenance to support new processors, z/OS operating systems and general updates
- Ad-hoc reporting inquiries such as frequency of a specific function, transaction, or job
- Monthly Mainframe Capacity Reports including
- Measurement of system resources usage for all LPARs
- Usage Trends, Top-N lists, Peak Profiles, Threshold Exception, etc.
- Prepare and Present Monthly Mainframe Capacity Planning Review meeting documents
- Annual Mainframe Capacity Report
- Resource usage by Application System ID
- Ad-hoc analyses as requested
- Collection and reporting of business volume data from varied sources
- Resource Forecasting and monthly review of forecasts to actuals
- Risk assessments of extreme market conditions for selected business streams
- Consultations with Capacity Stress Test team (includes reviews of their reporting)
- Produce/update a Business Process Requirements document for selected business streams
- Correlation Analysis, Business volume to System Resources
- Pattern Recognition / Detection of outliers
- Linear / Logistic Regression, ARIMA forecasts, integrating projections with forecast data
- Ad hoc report development for senior business and management forums
- Quarterly report creation for the IT Governance Committee
- Produce documentation, test results as requested by the Model Validation Committee
- Policy procedure documentation with supporting evidence for regulatory, audit bodies
- Ensure the successful daily processing of multiple processing streams split by LPAR and work type
- Determine CPU and Storage usage by application system ID
- Monthly delivery of daily data to for chargeback processing and reporting
- Ad-hoc inquiries regarding systems suspected of high CPU or storage consumption, to control costs
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 10 years of related experience
- Bachelor's degree in a mathematics / statistics discipline preferred or equivalent work experience
Talents Needed for Success:
• Expertise in mainframe technology and components (CECs, LPARs, JCL, automated scheduling software)
• Expertise in analysis of mainframe capacity / performance data (SMF, RMF, CICS, DB2, MQ)
• Excellent analytical skills including data exploration, analysis, and production of models
• MICS/MXG/SAS ITRM experience required
• SAS experience required
• HTML, JSON experience is highly desirable
• Excellent MS Office skills, in particular advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills
The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.