Lead Engineer

Job Title:  Lead Engineer

Location: Pune

About Corporate Bank Technology

Deutsche Bank’s Corporate Bank division is a leading provider of cash management, trade finance and securities finance. We complete green-field projects that deliver the best Corporate Bank - Securities Services products in the world. Our team is diverse, international, and driven by shared focus on clean code and valued delivery.  At every level, agile minds are rewarded with competitive pay, support, and opportunities to excel. 

You will work as part of a cross-functional agile delivery team. You will bring an innovative approach to software development, focusing on using the latest technologies and practices, as part of a relentless focus on business value. You will be someone who sees engineering as team activity, with a predisposition to open code, open discussion and creating a supportive, collaborative environment. You will be ready to contribute to all stages of software delivery, from initial analysis right through to production support.

What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under child care assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Flexible working arrangements
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Role Overview

We are looking for a seasoned Engineer & Solution Architect to drive the engineering practices, transformation, and modernization of applications in Corporate Bank. This role should enable in identification of impediments and support various functional engineering teams to align with the Target State engineering practices. This person is expected to influence engineering community to deliver solutions that comply with the Architecture Blueprint and with the Target State Architecture of the Bank. This person is expected to be hands on and define and drive the engineering practices, identify the areas needing modernization and engage and support them to the modernization of their tech stack e.g., introduction of microservices, APIs, event driven design, cloud adaption etc. This person is expected to lead the CB tech wide engineering initiative and provide local center level support.

Your key responsibilities

• Promotes the target state architecture across the engineering community and all other stakeholder groups within and outside of the domain.
• Contributes or performs deep-dive reviews of technical solutions designs produced by individual teams and advises and do handholding on their improvement and ensures compliance with strategy, architecture standards and re-use of existing assets.
• Guides development teams towards adoption of modern design patterns and champions use of technologies to achieve highly scalable and well supported systems.
• Designs technical solutions for complex business problems.
• Create Engineering practices guidelines, modernization plans, identification of legacy technology and path to their decommissioning and create insights for management using the data and industry available tools.
• Identify the appropriate tools and support on engineering automation work e.g Test Automation, CICD etc.
• Find appropriate use cases for GCP movement and support teams to their GCP journey.
• Create insights for top management on the engineering maturity of the CB tech origination and support teams to attain the desired maturity.
• Build /Mentor and grow high performing and innovative team.

Your skills and experience

• Strong Engineering, Solution & Domain Architecture background, with proven track record of working in a very complex environment, high volume, low latency systems.
• Experience with designing solutions in public cloud platforms (Professional architect certification beneficial)
• Up to date on modern architecture design patterns e.g., micro-services, streaming architectures, horizontal scalability, API design patterns, REST services, SOA principles, database systems, UI frameworks, enterprise integration patterns, modern SDLC practices
• Experience on CICD tools like Maven, Jenkins, GitHub actions, Kubernetes etc.
• Passionate technologist with ability to deep dive into the code level with expert knowledge of the java ecosystem and ability contribute code in POCs, MVPs or project reviews.
• Strong interpersonal skills to manage relationships with a variety of partners and stakeholders. Ability to facilitate group sessions. Excellent communications skills, ability to respectfully challenge stakeholders think about differing options.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with competing and alternating priorities with a constant focus on delivery.
• Excellent Analytical skills with an ability to interpret bank wide specifications into specific and effective domain requirements.
• Proven history of implementing technology roadmaps and providing subject matter expertise in specific data areas.
• Strong interpersonal skills to manage relationships with a variety of partners and stakeholders.
• Ability to respectfully challenge stakeholders think about differing options.
• Good understanding of the Transaction Banking business. Prior experience working within Banking essential. 
• Agile delivery knowledge and Google Cloud Platform experience is an added advantage.
• A strong academic track record including the achievement of a good honors degree or equivalent.
• Strong MS-Office skills and experience with modern SDLC tools - JIRA, SharePoint, ALM, Confluence - is a plus.
• Technical Skills in the understanding of Microservices, Micro front ends, using technologies like Java Spring boot, ReactJS, JavaScript, Nodejs.
• Hands on in either of the listed technologies.

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams

Please visit our company website for further information:

https://www.db.com/company/company.htm

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.