The Options Clearing Corporation

The Options Clearing Corporation

Executive Director, Platform Architecture

Chicago - 125 S Franklin · Director

Sponsorship not specified$198k-$347kDetected 96 days ago
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About the role

  • To be considered for this position, applications and resumes are accepted only through our careers site by directly applying to the posted job.
  • We do not accept unsolicited resumes or sales solicitations from staffing agencies.
  • Any OCC employee wishing to submit a referral must do so through their Workday account.

Responsibilities

  • The Executive Director, Platform Architecture leads OCC's Platform Architecture team, owning the technical strategy and standards for all infrastructure domains - cloud, onpremises, networking, compute, storage, and observability.
  • The Executive Director, Platform Architecture translates OCC's resilience objectives and regulatory obligations into actionable platform architecture strategy, drives adoption of that strategy across Engineering and Operations, and ensures the platform layer keeps pace with OCC's technology transformation - including the Renaissance/Ovation program and ongoing cloud adoption.
  • Lead the Platform Architecture Team
  • Lead, develop, and set direction for a team of principal architects covering cloud, on-premises infrastructure, networking, compute, storage, and observability domains
  • Manage team priorities, capacity, and delivery against architecture commitments across programs and initiatives Develop team members through coaching, feedback, and exposure to enterprise-scale architectural challenges
  • Define reference architectures and infrastructure patterns that Engineering and application teams can consume without requiring per-project architecture engagement Own non-functional requirements standards at the platform level - availability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, latency, throughput, and capacity - as first-class concerns applicable across all tiers of OCC's system portfolio
  • Enforce platform standards through Architecture Review Board participation and design review processes
  • Maintain infrastructure architecture documentation, ADRs, and transition plans that accurately reflect current and target state
  • Drive Infrastructure Modernization and Cloud Strategy
  • Ensure cloud architecture patterns for networking, security, identity, and compute are consistent, compliant, and operationally sound across all workloads Drive GitOps and infrastructure-as-code adoption - pipeline standards, environment promotion, configuration management, and secrets management at enterprise scale

Requirements

  • The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
  • 12+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or systems architecture, with at least 3 years in a people leadership or team lead role
  • Deep experience with AWS architecture - VPCs, EC2, EKS, MSK, S3, IAM, KMS, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, and security services
  • Experience with Apache Kafka as enterprise streaming infrastructure - deployment, operations, and topology design
  • Experience in financial services, particularly regulated environments (SIFMU, clearinghouse, exchange, or bank)
  • To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.
  • Demonstrated experience defining and governing infrastructure architecture standards across multiple domains at organizational scale
  • cloud (AWS), on-premises data center, networking, compute, storage, and container platforms
  • Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes - cluster architecture, workload design, multi-tenancy, networking (CNI), and operational patterns at scale
  • Demonstrated experience leading GitOps and infrastructure-as-code programs - Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, Flux, or equivalent
  • Experience with hybrid and on-premises/cloud connectivity architecture - network design, routing,firewalling, and security zoning
  • Ability to lead through influence and authority - building alignment across Engineering, Security, Operations, and Governance
  • Strong communication skills - able to represent infrastructure strategy to executive leadership and translate architecture decisions into actionable standards for engineering teams
  • Familiarity with Regulation SCI, CPMI-IOSCO, or equivalent financial market infrastructure regulatory frameworks and their implications for infrastructure design
  • Experience with Apache Flink or equivalent stream processing frameworks in production environments
  • Experience with enterprise observability platforms - OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or equivalent

Skills

  • EKS, MSK, S3, VPC, IAM, KMS, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, CloudWatch
  • Docker, Helm, container networking (CNI)
  • DNS, hybrid connectivity, network security zoning
  • Unix/Linux environments; artifact management (Nexus, Artifactory)
  • BS degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 12+ years of relevant work experience.
  • AWS Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional (preferred)
  • Cloud: AWS foundational and advanced services - EC2,
  • Container platforms: Kubernetes (EKS or self-managed),
  • Streaming and processing: Apache Kafka, Apache Flink
  • GitOps and IaC: Terraform, ArgoCD, Flux, Helm, GitHub Actions or Jenkins
  • Networking: routing protocols, firewalling, load balancing,

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
  • $198,200.00 - $346,700.00
  • Incentive Range

Benefits

  • A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness.
  • Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education
  • 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

Company info

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • This is a people leadership role responsible for developing a team of principal architects and ensuring their work produces coherent, enterprise-wide platform standards rather than isolated domain expertise.
  • Ensure individual architect domain expertise is synthesized into coherent, enterprise-wide platform standards - not siloed recommendations

Equal opportunity

  • OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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